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This article describes the curriculum for a highly student-centered human biology course constructed around a series of themes that enables the integration of the same basic paradigms found in a traditional survey…
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What is the difference between an x-ray, a CAT scan, and an MRI?
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The Early Years: Science Tickets
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Teachers can spark interest in a science topic by using “science tickets”—special objects offered to children as a way to transition to the science room or into a small group to do a science activity. Objects ranging…
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Editor’s Note: Science and Math Go Together Like…
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The connections of mathematics and science are both basic and complex. As the articles in this month’s issue attest, we can deepen student understanding of science and math through an explicit and thoughtful connection…
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Idea Bank: A 50-Cent Analytical Spectroscope
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“How do we know all that we know about the stars, since they are so far away and no one from Earth has ever visited them?” A fair question to be sure. While astronomers believe they have decent estimates of the mass,…
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Editor's Corner: Science Poses Challenges to Every Demographic Group
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the release of the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics latest science scores for grades 4, 8, and 12 from the 2000 assessment.
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How Big Is Big? How Small Is Small?
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Using children's literature to enhance measurement sense is the focus of this article. Several science trade books used with children to build understandings of relative sizes and other measurement concepts are…
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Idea Bank: Putting the “Science” in “Science Fiction”
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As practitioners, it can be difficult to incorporate reading and writing into the science classroom. Although linking science fiction to relevant research is hardly a new idea (Pierce 2001; ReadWriteThink 2009; Raham…
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Science Sampler: Sculpt-A-Scientist—Confronting negative stereotypes of scientists
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Career choice is a process, not an event. Interest in science is a preliminary step toward and prerequisite for a career in science. Once interest in science is established, training and education can then provide the…
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Helping Students Make Connections
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Science teachers want their students to attain scientific literacy for applications beyond the classroom. Unfortunately, many students view school, and especially school science, as disconnected from their lives and…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Where Did the Water Go?
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how formative assessment relates to standards-based teaching and learning.
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Games Students Play: Teaming up in physics class leads to cooperative learning
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The case for motivating students through cooperative learning has been made and supported throughout the last two decades. Two well-known cooperative learning techniques—Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) and…
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (2005)
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The annual list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for K-12 students was selected by a committee of National Science Teacher Association members. This comprehensive list of selected books were all published in 2005.
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Enquiry, the Science Teacher, and the Educator
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What our teachers need to teach is determined, first, by the first that our national need is a dual one. There is an urgent pressing need for an increasing number of fluid enquirers and original engineers. There is also…
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Networking Antarctic Research Discoveries to a Science Classroom
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In 2006, a unique scenario transported eighth-grade Earth science students from the classroom into the cold, dry, pristine surroundings of Antarctica. The mission was to expose the students to hands-on science using…
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