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  • Integrating Technology: Using Science and Technology to Protect Urban Water Sources

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    This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. In this article, the authors describe an eighth-grade science lesson in which the teacher discussed with her…

  • Teacher’s Toolkit: Community Connections

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    This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This issue describes how the author fosters more communication between her students and their families in her sixth-grade science…

  • Classic Lessons 2.0: Where Did the Leaves Go?

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    Investigating decomposition through an inquiry-based project. This lesson was designed to help students learn about the cycle of decomposition by having them investigate the decomposition of leaves.

  • Disequilibrium: The Connection Between Weather and Air Masses

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    This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s column helps explain how air masses flow from regions of high pressure to low pressure, causing weather at a fixed location to…

  • Science For All: Creating a Culturally Responsive Middle School Science Classroom

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    This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This article provides foundational strategies you can add to your classroom management repertoire to create a culturally responsive classroom. These…

  • Teacher To Teacher: Using Phenomena to Drive Student Questions

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    This column provides practical advice from your peers. Last summer’s flooding of Houston, Texas, left many wondering what caused this catastrophic event. To answer students' questions about these types of events, the…

  • Citizen Science: Cloudy With a Chance of “Cirrus” Science

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    This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. NASA Globe Observer (GO) Clouds is a citizen science project that combines…

  • Interdisciplinary Ideas: Data Literacy 101

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    This column shares ways to bring other subjects into the science classroom. Every few months, this column will explore ways to incorporate data literacy into our classrooms. The authors will explore strategies and tips…

  • Scope on the Skies: Ozone: The Protective Layer Above Us

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    This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This issue discusses the history of the ozone layer and what it protects humans from.

  • Earth’s Energy Budget

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    Unpacking the relationship between energy and temperature to understand climate change

  • Learning Biology Through Molecular Storytelling

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    A storytelling approach to the connection between 3D shapes of biomolecules and their biochemical and cellular functions

  • The Bold Fold

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    How a small cell does a big job

  • Creative Visual Representation

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    Using science infographics to jump-start creativity in the classroom

  • Data Jams

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    Promoting data literacy and science engagement while encouraging creativity

  • Editor's Corner: Creative Science

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    The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.

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