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  • Disequilibrium: Wildfires, the Fire Triangle, and CO2 Extinguishers

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    This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event models a CO2 fire extinguisher, helps students understand the fire triangle, and allows students to ponder ways…

  • Listserv Roundup: Technology Tools for Paperless Homework

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    This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. This month’s column is all about the technology tools NSTA e-mail listserv members use to assign and…

  • Science for All: Using Formative Assessments to Differentiate Instruction

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    This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's issue discusses how to keep formative assessment methods informative and engaging to maximize student participation and performance.

  • Teacher To Teacher: Creating Conceptual Storylines

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    This column provides practical advice from your peers. A conceptual storyline employs a narrative approach to learning in which students are able to build and retain science concepts. To properly construct a conceptual…

  • Scope on the Skies: Star Chart

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    This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue describes the H-R (Hertzsprung-Russell) diagram, which is a representation of the relationship between a star’s luminosity and its temperature.

  • Creating Science Websites

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    A website design project challenges students’ creativity and motivates them to learn.

  • Making Waves

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    Exploring the Earth with seismology.

  • Connecting Science and Technology

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    Exploring the Nature of Science using historical short stories.

  • Learning Lichens

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    Students investigate this fascinating composite organism growing in the school yard.

  • Editor's Corner: Smartphones: Challenge or Opportunity?

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

  • Science 2.0: Choosing a 3-D Printer

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    This column shares web tools that support learning. Last month the authors discussed using a 3-D printer to help teach design thinking. This month they look more closely at the printers themselves. Although 3-D printers…

  • Focus on Physics: Radiant Energy and Global Warming

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    This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's article discusses electromagnetic radiation.

  • Idea Bank: Using Apps That Support Scientific Practices

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    The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. For this article, the authors analyzed 93 educational applications (apps) that have the potential to help students meaningfully…

  • Idea Bank: The Art of Chemistry

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    The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This article describes a research-based investigation in which students explore chemical reactivity in the context of artistic…

  • Career of the Month: Social Media Manager

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    This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Kelly Owen's career path to becoming a Social Media Manager.

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