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  • Commentary: The Importance of Cultivating Empathy in STEM

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    An opinion piece about how seeking to understand another’s perspective, or what many call engaging in empathy work, can help middle school students better understand how STEM-related issues can affect people and society.

  • Citizen Science: It Alll Adds Up: Wildcam Gorongosa Citizen 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. There is a concerted global effort to conserve Gorongosa’s indigenous wildlife…

  • Disequilibrium: Layered Liquids

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    This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Students may hold onto the misconception that all liquids naturally combine when put into the same container (e.g., adding food coloring to…

  • Listserv Roundup: Ways to Increase Math Confidence in Science Class

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    This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. There are many effective ways to increase student excitement about and confidence in math in the…

  • Science for All: Making Science Visible

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    This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. Students need ways to create visual structures for information they’re learning so that they can synthesize, organize, and, eventually, store that…

  • Teacher to Teacher: Analyzing Data With Mean Absolute Deviation

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    This column provides practical advice from your peers. Teachers need to emphasize that when analyzing and interpreting data, multiple trials produce the best test results. Students often struggle with understanding the…

  • Scope on the Skies: The Universe, From Micro to Macro

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    This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. Some middle school students may have trouble understanding subatomic particles and neutrinos, but the topic is suitable for more advanced students. Before students…

  • No Puedo

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    “I don’t get it.” Assisting Spanglish-speaking students in the science classroom.

  • Supporting Students With Autism

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    A lesson embedded with strategies addressing students with autism spectrum disorder.

  • Seeing Science

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    Visually impaired students can conduct independent science investigations.

  • The Science Standards and Students of Color

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    Finding classroom approaches that work.

  • Students as Environmental Educators

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    Science students conduct a program for preschoolers to raise awareness of pollution in a local creek.

  • Editor's Corner: Huddled Masses

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

  • Commentary: Going Beyond the Textbook

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    An opinion piece discusses why students need to see connections between science learning and their experiences and cultures.

  • Science 2.0: Communicating Science Creatively

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    This column shares web tools that support learning. The authors have been covering the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards in every issue since September. This month, they examine the…

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