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What better way to spend a sunny summer day than surfing—the web, that is! With so many web 2.0 applications out there, it’s hard to know what’s really useful. In this month’s column, the authors share some of their…
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Scope on Safety: Safety and liability
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In order to provide a level of awareness relative to liability, the NSTA Board charged a committee with the task of rewriting the NSTA Position Statement on Liability of Science Educators for Laboratory Safety. This…
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Favorite Demonstration: The Nature of Color Subtraction: A Guided Inquiry Experience
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Many college students profess to have an understanding of the nature of color. The study of color begins in the early grades, so it makes sense that students should feel confident regarding their knowledge. However,…
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Editor’s Roundtable: National Lab Day—Community-based science at its best!
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National Lab Day (NLD) was launched by President Obama on November 23, 2009, and is a collaboration of more than 200 education, science, and engineering organizations, including NSTA. Teachers can use the NLD network to…
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Understanding how geckos—small lizards belonging to the family Gekkonindae—can “defy gravity” and walk across a ceiling provides a fascinating frame through which students can not only learn valuable content about…
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In this column the leadership of the SCST shares its views with JCST readers. This month's issue features the position statement on the scholarship of college science teaching adopted by the SCST executive board.
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Is Collaborative Grouping an Effective Instructional Strategy?
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While problem solving is a generally accepted goal of most science courses, it has previously been difficult to determine the extent to which students’ problem-solving abilities are impacted by these courses.…
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This article examines the outcomes of undergraduate research in relation to the individual expectations of students participating in this research.
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The end of a year is always a time for reflection and looking back. Even though December may feel more like mid-year for teachers, the end of the calendar year inevitably brings top-10 lists, reviews of the best the…
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Scavenger Hunts: Chasing Down Scientific Answers
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Describing a scavenger hunt activity that stimulates active learning, the authors present objectives, examples, pitfalls, grading methods, and an evaluation based on their course experiences with the technique. Although…
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How many of our students come to the classroom with little background knowledge about the world around them and how things work? To help students develop conceptual understanding and explore the design process, the…
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Scope on Safety: Debugging safely
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The hazards of pests in the classroom are numerous. Mice can contaminate food and supplies and trigger asthma attacks, cockroaches can cause allergic reactions and aggravate asthma, flies can spread disease, bee and…
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Students use the BIDDI (Brainstorm, Investigate, Debrief, Debate, Indentify) process to understand settling rates, permeability, and porosity.
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Feed Up, Feedback, and Feed Forward
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In this article the authors describe how a kindergarten science teacher uses the feed up, feedback, and feed forward inquiry-based approach to assessment during a unit on conservation of resources.
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Safer Science: Building Safety in Foreign Language
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A school is about to undergo major renovations and new construction to handle a growing student population. So some science classes and labs are assigned to other parts of the building temporarily. Most teachers are…
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