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Under most circumstances, flying paper airplanes during class would not be allowed, but at the close of this 6th grade class students are encouraged to fly all sorts of paper airplanes. This mini-unit makes the last few…
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Many poems for children published in the past few decades focus on aspects of environmental study. Combining these newer contributions with poetry published in the past can greatly enhance children’s study of the…
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Action Research Meets Engineering Design
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Engaging in sustained and collaborative action research is one way science teachers can build the bridge between improving student learning and their own professional learning as teachers and teacher-researchers. This…
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Tried and True: Newton's first law: A learning cycle approach
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Demonstrate how Newton's first law of motion applies to students' everyday lives with this learning cycle series of activities on inertia. This activity is sure to elicit wide-eyed stares and puzzled looks from students…
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Connecting Earthquakes and Violins
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Violins, earthquakes, and the "singing rod" demonstration all have something in common--stick-slip frictional motion. This article begins with a typical classroom experiment used to understand the transition between…
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Case Study: Ah-choo! Increased Risk of Pollen Allergies in the Northern Hemisphere
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In this problem-based learning activity designed for nonscience majors, students assume the roles of scientists working for a public relations firm. Teams of students design communication products illustrating links…
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Science Sampler: The atomic dating game
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This chemistry activity helps students visualize and understand how and why atoms combine. This concept is critical to a student's understanding of chemistry.
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With the increased availability of new technologies, distance educators have the opportunity to design science courses that provide students with a wider range of learning aids than are available at many traditional…
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It is the authors hope that the science education community will use the results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) to explore current issues in science education. Among these issues are…
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Learning Science While Constructing Learning Teams
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Many science educators are proponents of cooperative learning, but struggle to find equitable and effective ways to build groups. In this article, the author describes her method for forming heterogeneous cooperative…
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Using Wiggins and McTighe’s (1998) concept of Big Ideas, the authors planned and designed an electricity investigation to address common student misconceptions about static electricity. With Styrofoam plates and…
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Editor’s Corner: Science for All (March 2008)
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This issue of The Science Teacher (TST) represents our 13th consecutive annual issue devoted to the theme “Science for All.” The theme serves as an umbrella for ideas and strategies to mitigate academic achievement…
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This burglary mystery captures students' interest as they analyze how the mass-to-volume ratio of a liquid determines its density. As they observe the mass change while the volume remains constant, they begin to…
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Science Sampler: The Pet Rock Project—Making the rock cycle come alive!
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The Pet Rock Project provides students with an in-depth understanding of the rock cycle that involves their artistic and creative abilities in the Earth science classroom. The idea of a pet rock was central to the…
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Since 1995, astronomers have discovered over 100 known exoplanets--planets outside of our solar system--and determined their properties such as mass, orbital distance, size, and density. By using simple algebraic…
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