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Connecting Children to Their World
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Planning effective, engaging lessons and units are challenging tasks for a teacher, but the process can also be meaningful and rewarding. Using a big understanding—a guiding statement describing essential content you…
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Solving Solutions: Exploring unknowns through chemistry
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Developing middle school students’ problem-solving skills is a common goal of the National Science Education Standards and the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. The following chemistry activities support…
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Point of View: Where Are Skills Learned in a Science Program?
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Communication, critical thinking, and collaboration are outcomes we hope students will learn from experts in “other” courses. But if science teachers value certain skills, then they should accept the challenge to help…
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Infrared Investigations: Using simple equipment to compare infrared radiation with visible light
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This article features a series of simple and nontraditional experiments that enable students to discover the properties of infrared radiation (IR) by studying propagation, reflection, diffusion, and refraction of IR.…
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English Language Learners in the Science Classroom
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What can we as teachers do to help English Language Learners (ELLs) learn science when we do not speak their languages or know their cultures? Both pre- and in-service teachers have successfully used the following…
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What would motivate high school students to donate valuable summer vacation time to do science research?--the opportunity to make a difference! The Shell Creek Watershed Improvement Group (SCWIG) was formed to identify…
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After reading a news story about two men who died in an accidental explosion while trying to make the controlled substance methamphetamine, students learn about the stereochemistry of organic molecules and various…
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Commentary: Mass and Weight—Explaining the Difference
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An opinion piece about two of the most commonly confused words in science class—mass and weight.
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In this month’s Ask the Experts column, the following questions are addressed: I’ve heard that the two sides of my brain are specialized for different tasks (language vs. reasoning, etc.). If I listen to a science…
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Problem Solver: Teaching Tropisms
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Plants are found in most locations in the world and have the remarkable ability to capture and store energy from sunlight. Without the green plant’s ability to carry out the process we call photosynthesis, Earth would…
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes the life of an inventor.
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Hey, There's a Forest in that Classroom!
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After a prolonged visit to an elementary classroom, this author was inspired to share his reflections on the effective combination of creative science teaching approaches he observed. In particular, the author…
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In this article, a science teacher from the Midwest reflects on her summer vacation to the Gulf of Mexico. She felt that this vacation would help improve her teaching about the environmental problems in the gulf and…
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Science Sampler: Girls, robots, and science education
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Diversity in most environments is critical to success. Science instruction with the implementation of robotics could provide girls with the needed impetus to consider fields in engineering and computer science, which…
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Books Published in 2010)
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Science is passion, science is wonder. The best books about science stir the minds and hearts of readers in very special ways and this impression can last for years. These books published in 2010, identify the best in…
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