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After the Bell: Where do we go next?
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As teachers, we need to connect students’ informal mapping skills to formal mapping concepts that they can learn in school. An important way that school districts or teachers themselves can solve this dilemma is to…
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Scope on Safety: Chemical tracking systems—not your usual global positioning system!
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The haphazard storing and tracking of chemicals in the laboratory is a serious safety issue facing science teachers. To get control of your chemicals, try implementing a chemical tracking system. A chemical tracking…
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Most undergraduate science students will likely not become science professors, much less people of science (Fox 1998; Tobias 1992). However, some may become K—12 science teachers. Are we, as science professors,…
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Scope on the Skies: Watch your weight
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue focuses on gravity, one of the four forces in the universe that scientists refer to as a fundamental force.
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Investigating the Mercalli Intensity Scale Through "Lived Experience"
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Shake up your class with a look at the intensity-based alternative to the Richter scale.
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In-Class Incentives That Encourage Students to Take Concept Assessments Seriously
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This article explores whether administering a posttest on the final exam differs from administering it on the last day of class with extra final exam points for scoring 100% on the posttest as an incentive.
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A student-led program promotes healthier snacks.
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DNA as a Binary Code: How the Physical Structure of Nucleotide Bases Carries Information
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The DNA triplet code also functions as a binary code. Because double-ring compounds cannot bind to double-ring compounds in the DNA code, the sequence of bases classified simply as purines or pyrimidines can encode for…
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Research and Teaching: Conceptual Change in Introductory-Level Astronomy Courses
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As part of a project to transform an introductory astronomy course (Bisard and Zeilik, 1998), the authors developed, validated, and presented a set of multiple-choice questions to hundreds of students at the University…
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Editor's Note: Ending and Beginning
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Safer Science: Making Adjustments for Mobility-Impaired Students
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Students’ mobility impairments need to be addressed for access to and safety in science laboratories. Typical accommodations for mobility-impaired students include workstations, sinks, fume hoods, and safety eyewashes…
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Strengthening Science Departments
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Learn how teachers and chairpersons can help their departments support best practices in science.
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Practitioner Research Success!
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Practitioner research is an ongoing, reflective process in which inservice teachers (i.e., practitioners) ask questions about their day-to-day teaching practice, develop plans of action to investigate these questions,…
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Scope on the Skies: Welcome to Mars
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses Mars exploration.
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Idea Bank: Measuring Wavelength with a Ruler
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In the late 1960s, Arthur Schawlow, co-inventor of the laser, visited the author’s high school physics department to share some intriguing laser demonstrations. He popped colored balloons inside transparent ones, and…
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