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What Students Really Think About Doing Research
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This article shares student perspectives on authentic research projects. This qualitative study followed 14 students through a local science and engineering fair project to gain information about their thoughts about…
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To teach students about food safety practices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) formed a partnership to develop a free curriculum kit titled Science and…
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Getting More Mileage Out of Mousetrap Cars
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Building and racing mousetrap cars is a common activity in many eighth- and ninth-grade physical science classrooms. However, once students have raced their cars, most mousetrap assignments come to an end. The project…
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Science Shorts: Is Concrete a Rock?
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This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. In this month’s issue students learn about properties of materials.
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Safer Science: Lab Fire Extinguishers—Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
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When renovations or new construction occur, fire extinguishers sometimes get lost in the mix. Unfortunately, whether to save money or because the fire code is misinterpreted, some schools do not install fire…
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Science Shorts: Experimental Error
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One of the most challenging components of science inquiry is getting students to understand the fundamentally important concept of experimental error. While this concept can be tricky for children, there are…
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Designing Teaching Facilities: Pedagogy as the Driving Force
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Pedagogy, the art and science of teaching, should be the driving force behind the design of any teaching facility. What is taught and how it is taught should determine the size, type, and configuration of educational…
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When students are regimented by lab manuals that dictate what to think, how to think, and when to think, lab activities essentially lose impact for learning. A constructivist approach (as opposed to the constructivist…
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Scope on the Skies: Ascent: A Community-Based Project to the Stratosphere
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses a community-based project to design and build a payload container that would be carried into the stratosphere by a high-altitude weather…
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Editor's Note: Exciting Involvement
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Editor's Corner: On Being World Class...
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In this month’s column, the field editor reflects on the educational reform bill, Goals 2000, which was drafted into law during the Clinton administration and specifically challenged U.S. science educators to produce…
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The author created a lesson in which students successfully practiced reading comprehension skills while developing an understanding of earthquakes.
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Antarctic Adaptations
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Penguins! This month’s Teaching Through Trade Books column celebrates those tuxedo-clad birds that have come to symbolize winter and provides students with the opportunity to investigate adaptations that help penguins…
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Tried and True: Solar System in the Hallway
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After studying phenomena related to the positions and motions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon, many students are familiar with the positional ordering of the planets, but their knowledge of the distances involved is vague.…
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This article describes how a Botany Laboratory Inquiry Project (BLIP) can be included in a general botany laboratory. The stated purpose of the BLIP component is to provide a student with the opportunity to select a…
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