A Partnership for Problem-Based Learning

Journal Article | November 2005

So many demands are placed on high school teachers today. But the right kind of professional development can help teachers meet these challenges. A partnership among a high school biology teacher, a graduate student,…

A Growth Opportunity

Journal Article | February 1999

This 7th grade life science class is about to embark on the Plant Project as they collect leaves and flowers as a homework assignment and learn that the class will be held outside. The project can serve as a foundation…

Case Study: The Scientific Method Ain’t What It Used to Be

Journal Article | June 2010

Remember the time when all you had to do was memorize these five steps: ask a question, formulate a hypothesis, perform experiment, collect data, and draw conclusions? And you received full credit for defining THE…

Science Shorts: Ecosystem in a Jar

Journal Article | March 2007

Stories about global warming and habitat loss are common news these days. Additionally, there are numerous reports about the loss of diversity among living things across the globe. These ideas and concepts are…

Teaching the Human Dimension of Science

Journal Article | June 2009

Teachers have the important responsibility of providing students with accurate and engaging science content while also helping them establish authentic views of scientists. Though there are numerous curriculum materials…

Detecting Landscape Change: The View From Above

Journal Article | December 2007

This article will demonstrate an approach for discovering and assessing local landscape change through the use of remotely sensed images. A brief introduction to remotely sensed imagery is followed by a discussion of…

After the Bell: Breaking the Code: Examining Your Mail

Journal Article | December 2003

Given the amount of mail that arrives during the holidays--from early December to early January--the post holiday season provides an excellent opportunity to perform an informal science and mathematics classification…

Introducing <i>A Framework for K–12 Science Education</i>: A Message to Our Members

Journal Article | August 2011

The author gives an overview of the National Research Council's newly released document A Framework for K–12 Science Education.

Student, Graduate, and Faculty Perspectives on Fledgling Content-Based Doctoral Programs in Science and Mathematics Education: Producing a Professoriate as Well Trained to Teach as to Research

Journal Article | February 1999

For the Ph.D. degrees in biology, mathematics, and chemical education to be appropriate, there needs to be more emphasis on research related to teaching/learning in the content areas—not just an emphasis on teaching in…

Green Science: How green is your lawn?

Journal Article | June 2010

The perfect American lawn—green, lush, weed- and pest-free—is pursued by millions of Americans, who expend a massive amount of resources to attain this ideal. Americans spend an estimated $25 billion a year on lawn care…

Classifying Classification

Journal Article | February 2009

This article describes the experience of a group of first-grade teachers as they tackled the science process of classification, a targeted learning objective for the first grade. While the two-year process was not easy…

Teaching through Trade Books: The Science of Invention

Journal Article | January 2003

The books What Is a Scientist? and Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women are used as springboards for projects in which students in grades K–3 and 4–6 create or modify inventions.

Knowledge Retention of Exercise Physiology Content Between Athletes and Nonathletes

Journal Article | June 2006

Based on the idea that learning is linked to personal relevance, this study examined knowledge retention of exercise physiology content between college athletes and nonathletes. No differences were observed between the…

Art and Science Grow Together

Journal Article | August 2005

The interdisciplinary connection between science and art is easily accomplished in the elementary classroom using plants as focus organisms. Observing, dissecting, growing, drawing, and painting plants can also be used…

Reading Questions: Encouraging Students to Read the Text Before Coming to Class

Journal Article | June 2006

College science teachers know that students get the most out of class if they have completed the assigned reading. To reinforce this expectation, we ask our introductory physics students to submit a question they had…