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Students as Environmental Educators
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Science students conduct a program for preschoolers to raise awareness of pollution in a local creek.
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Editor's Corner: Huddled Masses
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.
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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.
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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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The Green Room: How Border Walls Affect Wildlife
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses how the proposed wall along the U.S.–Mexico border would significantly affect wildlife.
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Focus on Physics: The Delightful Catenary Curve
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The author uses the curve called a catenary to explain how he teaches about tension and compression related to geometrical structures such as bridges, arches, and domes.
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Health Wise: Acne: Myth vs. Fact
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This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses acne.
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Career of the Month: Automotive Engineer
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Jeff Johnston's career path to becoming an automotive engineer.
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Right to the Source: Don’t Be Like Muddy Jim
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Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the book Muddy Jim and Other Rhymes.
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Student-centered forms of instruction based in a constructivist framework, where students are guided toward actively constructing their understanding, have been met with success. However, implementation of…
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Student-Designed Experiments: A Pedagogical Design for Introductory Science Labs
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Despite numerous calls for science education to be driven by authentic investigation, many laboratory experiences continue to consist of disconnected weekly units during which students carry out instructions that lead…
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Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education: A Call to Action, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011, suggested cultivating biological literacy and practicing more student-…
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A Crash Course in Undergraduate Research
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Studies have shown that engaging students in undergraduate research and improving students’ science identities will increase minority students’ chances of completing their degrees and pursuing graduate studies. This…
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Increasing Student Interactions With Learning
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The authors discuss the use of specific teaching strategies to increase student interactions with student learning objectives.
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The integration of an undergraduate science content course and science methods course into a single combined course for preservice teachers, including a precourse field experience, was undertaken at a small, liberal…
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