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Continued decreases in government funding, increasing enrollments, and the demand for accountability and assessment characterize the new landscape of higher education. One facet of the demand for accountability is a…
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Safer Science: Chemical Spills: Absorbing Safety
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses how the teacher should respond to an incidental chemical spill in the school science laboratory.
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Science Sampler: Exploring Floating Concrete and Beam Design
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These construction activities increase students' awareness of math and science careers, especially in the area of engineering.
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Editor's Note: It <b>Is</b> Exciting
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue and introduces NSTA's SciLINKS® connection.
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Popping the Kernel: Modeling the States of Matter
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Constructing models can help students understand the particulate nature of matter. This article discusses how to use popcorn to engage students in model building and to teach them about the nature of matter.
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Science Shorts: Exploring Insect Vision
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A fly is buzzing around in the kitchen. You sneak up on it with a flyswatter, but just as you get close to it, it flies away. What makes flies and other insects so good at escaping from danger? The fact that insects…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: What Shapes the Earth?
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue explores the question: How and why is Earth constantly changing?
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Lighting the Way Through Scientific Discourse
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This article describes a thought-provoking lesson that compares various arrangements of lamp-battery circuits to help students develop the motivation and competence to participate in scientific discourse for knowledge…
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Science Sampler: Is knowledge random? Introducing sampling and bias through outdoor inquiry
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Sampling, very generally, is the process of learning about something by selecting and assessing representative parts of that population or object. In the inquiry activity described here, students learned about sampling…
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Tried and True: Rock 'n' Roll: An Inquiry Investigation of Stone-Based Construction Materials
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This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue discusses an inquiry-based activity that gets students excited about a unit on rocks.
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Drawing Out the Artist in Science Students
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In-class drawing instruction gives students the skills and confidence to make more accurate scientific diagrams.
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Inquiry by Design: Creating a national and state standards-based high school science program
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In this article, the science coordinator examines the science program and wanders if it makes sense for student learning and if it could be adapted to meet state standards. The query was taken to the department and an…
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Scope on the Skies: Ancient Skies
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Writing this month’s column is quite literally a once in a millennium opportunity. As the New Year, century, and millennium get underway, many of us are wondering what lies ahead. But before we take look at the evening…
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Editor's Roundtable: Do state standardized science tests bring out the Chicken Little in us?
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Recently, discussions of state standardized science tests have been spreading anxiety and dread in science department meetings and teacher lounges across the country. Before you run for cover in anticipation of the…
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Elementary school teachers and university researchers combine their expertise to help students construct an understanding of force—and discover something of the nature of science in the process. Second- and third-grade…
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