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Science Sampler: Give students a purpose to read
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After some reflection, the author found that by giving her students a purpose to read has led to a deeper understanding of the text. In this article, she outlines the questions teachers should ask themselves prior to…
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Scope on the Skies: Summer Skies
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. In this month’s issue the author discusses objects that appear in the summer sky.
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Research and Teaching: A Case Study on Reflective Writing
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Reflective writing is a student-centered approach widely used in science and engineering courses that helps students develop a holistic scientific mindset. The authors present a multiple case study in two science…
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Science Sampler: Rocket boys and girls
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Teachers at a middle school located in West Virginia didn’t want their students to limit themselves to local jobs when faced with future career decisions. They wanted them to investigate a world of science within their…
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A Universal Idea: Teaching planet classification using the learning cycle
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Learning cycle investigations allow science students to model the activities of real scientists. Using the Internet in this learning cycle-based activity allows students to collect accurate and current data about the…
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The Case Study: The Way of Flesch
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The 50-year-old book, The Art of Readable Writing, by Linguist Rudolf Flesch, is chock-full of great advice about writing. Here the author shares some of its wisdom because it is useful for any kind of writing,…
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As part of an ongoing environmental project and partnership with a local university, high school students monitor changes to Fossil Creek in Arizona. Components of the project include fish behavior studies, responses to…
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Science Shorts: Seeing What We Can’t See
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While observation is critical to science, sometimes we cannot observe things directly. Sometimes things happened long ago (in paleontology, for example) or are too small to observe (like atoms). Many students believe…
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In this article, the authors describe their ongoing experience with the Herpetology Project. Through this field study, students catch and track amphibians and reptiles in the Assabet River area, record and analyze data…
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An opinion piece about the rapidly changing future that students in undergraduate classes face—one that is difficult to imagine. This issue reflects on the impact these changes may have on teaching undergraduate science.
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Science Sampler: Potato candle
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Demonstrating a candle made of a potato and a nut is a good way for students to understand the difference between observations and inferences.
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Our lives are integrally connected to airplanes. The products we buy, the mail we send and receive, and the vacations or business trips we take are all made more efficient by flight. We take for granted the airplanes…
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (2004)
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The annual list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 is selected by a committee of NSTA members. The selected titles on this list were all published in 2004.
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Every Day Science Calendar: September 2007
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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Beginning high school students may not have a firm foundation in the prerequisite skills to succeed in a laboratory-oriented science course, yet they are expected to develop these skills by the end of the course. This…
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