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Scope on Safety: Common sense and chemicals
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This month’s column features two true stories about the use of chemicals in the middle school science classroom. The lesson of these stories is simple. Certainly, it is prudent to have age-appropriate experiences in…
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With the trend toward integrated science, teachers often need advice and practical help to implement labs in different science topics. In this article these problems are addressed by creating a partnership among a state…
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Science Shorts: More Than One Way to Investigate
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An exciting element of science fairs is that they give students the opportunity to explore various interests through scientific investigation. Many students, however, mistakenly think that all investigations are…
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To help students learn and apply science content, teachers can embed content literacy instruction within science instruction. This involves teaching the content and the literacy skills students need to learn that…
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Students bring vocabulary to life by creating science-themed hats for a fifth-grade parade.
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The New Teacher’s Toolbox: Homeless Not Hopeless—Tips for the Traveling Teacher
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In a world of expanding class sizes and shrinking budgets, it’s rare to find a new teacher with his or her own classroom. New teachers often juggle multiple sections of multiple preps in different rooms—sometimes…
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Scope on the Skies: Location, location, location
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While traveling from home to distant locations, it is easy to feel both a sense of unfamiliarity as well as familiarity with the change in location, especially when considering the view of day and night skies. The…
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Science Sampler: Setting the scene for summer
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Students are much more likely to remember science concepts when they are presented in an entertaining way. Learn how the author uses a science play to reinforce concepts presented in the unit on genetics and mutations.
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Using School-Yard Restoration to Engage Students in Water Stewardship
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Engage in conservation activities that help students understand that their choices and actions have a local and global impact.
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Science is a social process—one that involves particular ways of talking, reasoning, observing, analyzing, and writing, which often have meaning only when shared within the scientific community. Discussions are one of…
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Teaching students how graphs describe the relationships between scientific phenomena.
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The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Idea Bank: Explaining Biological Phenomena
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In this Idea Bank, the author provides two classroom activities that integrate argumentation, explanation, and the use of evidence with biology content. The first example fits within an ecology unit; the second works…
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According to Carl Sagan (1987), “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” Field studies and undergraduate research provide students with the best opportunities for thinking about science,…
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Rubric for Content Classification
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Are teaching strategies such as collaborative learning, student-centered classrooms, and guided inquiry always appropriate? How do we decide what topics to teach? The Rubric for Content Classification is a taxonomy of…
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