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Editor's Note: 'Tis the Season for Outdoor Learning
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Science for Elementary Educators
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Science for Elementary Educators is a multidisciplinary, interactive learning course developed for the science instruction of childhood education majors. The course described here is a model for science education reform…
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Scope on Safety: Signs of safer science
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Can you imagine trying to put out a fire and finding the fire extinguisher? Experiencing a short circuit and having to search for the master electrical shutoff? Having a hazardous chemical splash and not being able to…
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The Potential da Vinci in All of Us
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The study of the human form is fundamental to both science and art curricula. For vertebrates, perhaps no feature is more important than the skeleton to determine observable form and function. As Leonard da Vinci’s…
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Guest Editorial: More Than Just Technology
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An opinion piece about integrating technology into teaching.
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Using EPA and NOAA websites, students are able to view pollution inventories (the amounts and kinds of pollution released in a given location) and follow pollution along its estimated path of travel. This inquiry based…
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Scope on Safety: Tools for Improving Your IAQ IQ
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This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses air quality in schools.
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Design briefs are plausible situations in which students are asked to solve problems given limited materials, a specific time frame, and a number of rules and limitations. It is the author’s contention that the design…
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Traditional beliefs in the Mexican-American border region were compiled by students in an introductory general chemistry course. Some of these beliefs were used as the basis for short research studies and the results…
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Insects are fascinating creatures—especially when you and your students get up close and personal with them! To that end, the authors facilitated an inquiry-based investigation with an emphasis on identification of the…
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One very nifty teacher decides to create four interactive, plant themed learning centers to help students develop science process skills, including observing, comparing, recording data, collecting data, sorting, and…
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Research service-learning (RSL) is an emerging pedagogy in which students engage in research within a service-learning context. This approach has great potential to promote science literacy because it teaches students…
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Citizen Scientists: Investigating Science in the Community
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This article describes numerous examples of citizen science projects that provide meaningful, authentic contexts for students to engage in the processes of science.
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Science 101: When drawing graphs from collected data, why don’t you just “connect the dots?”
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Using error bars on graphs is a good way to help students see that, within the inherent uncertainty of the measurements due to the instruments used for measurement, the data points do, in fact, lie along the line that…
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Current Research: Summer Reading Suggestions
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To supplement your summer reading, NSTA’s affiliates would like to suggest some recent articles on education research. These articles cover a variety of topics that include diversity, technology, and science teacher…
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