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Science Sampler: Plastics in our environment—A jigsaw learning activity
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In this lesson, a ready-to-teach cooperative reading activity, students learn about the effects of plastics n our environment, specifically that certain petrochemicals act as artificial estrogens and impact hormonal…
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The Case Study: E-Mail From Socrates
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Humans are storytelling animals that learn best when things are put into an experience or story. Teachers seem to think they can just lecture about the principles that they believe govern the world and the students…
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The Biology of Food course—a large lecture course with no laboratory section—is a mixture of kitchen chemistry, post-eating food metabolism, origins of different foods (from crop breeding to evolution), and ecological…
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When it comes to directly interacting with and doing experiments with organisms, plants have some distinct advantages over animals. Their diversity and accessibility allows students to use them in experiments, thus…
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The experts address the following question in this month’s column: My mom always warns me that I should never eat undercooked hamburgers, but we serve our grilled steaks medium rare. Isn’t that dangerous too? And what…
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Thinking Like a Ssssscientist!
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A fear of snakes developed into an opportunity to teach students about the process of science: formulating questions, collecting and analyzing data, and communicating findings to the public. By using snakes to help…
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Editor's Corner: Designing Inquiry Pathways
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.
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Guided Literature Explorations
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The earlier and more often students are exposed to primary literature, the more comfortable they are going to be reading it. After a series of literature explorations that progressively introduced students to reading…
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Science Sampler: Metamorphosing into readers
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One way to encourage students to read is to choose a subject that interests them. During middle school, students are metamorphosing into young adults. To take advantage of their natural interest in body changes, this…
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Recruiting and the Economic Status of the Science Teacher
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Our schools are threatened by a drastic shortage of teachers. The facts about our teacher shortage are deeply disquieting and altogether convincing to thoughtful parents and discerning citizens. Many teachers are…
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This article discusses a six-year study that involved an evaluation of whether student-learning gains for an online homework system could be sustained when scaled up to multiple sections and multiple instructors over…
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Science Sampler: More than just a day away from school—Planning a great science field trip
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With all the things that middle school science teachers have to juggle during the year, designing a science field trip can seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, there are many strategies that teachers can use to help…
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The Structures and Properties of Carbon
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The four main forms of carbon—diamond, graphite, buckyballs, and CNTs—are an excellent vehicle for teaching fundamental principles of chemical bonding, material structure, and properties. Carbon atoms form a variety of…
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Real Earthquakes, Real Learning
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One teacher took her class on a year long earthquake expedition. The goal was to monitor the occurrences of real earthquakes during the year and mark their locations with push pins on a wall-sized world map in the…
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Every Day Science Calendar: March 2011
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Facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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