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Science Sampler: Shark detectives
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Oceans are often considered mysterious, fascinating places filled with unique and scary animals. One of the most misunderstood and therefore the scariest animals is the shark. This student-directed activity involves…
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A Novel Lecture Series and Associated Outreach Program in the Environmental and Natural Sciences
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To address the low priority given to university-level outreach, the authors created an outreach program that makes it easy for scientists to connect with the public, while at the same time providing effective transfer…
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Aeronautical Engineer Paul Moller
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Engineers are inventors, designers, and creators—they apply science, math, and imagination to make dreams a reality. As they work to craft technical solutions to consumer and societal needs, engineers bridge the gap…
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To improve large lecture courses, the authors designed a hybrid instructional format that couples online homework with in-class, active learning exercises. They assessed student perceptions of a pilot version this…
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Too often, students enter our classrooms with insufficient knowledge of physical science. As a result, they have a difficult time understanding content in texts, lectures, and laboratory activities. This lack of…
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The Early Years: Where Did the Water Go?
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Everyday occurrences with evaporation are so ordinary that adults may not realize that children wonder about them and create explanations about what happens to water as wet objects dry. The process of evaporation is not…
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Editor's Note: Geology Is Fundamental (December 2006)
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Geology is fundamental. The usual triad of sciences (chemistry, physics, and biology) is also clearly important. Not much can be explained without physics, for example. But geology, the history of Earth, is an…
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Research and Teaching: Implementing Inquiry-Based Learning in Teaching Serial Dilutions
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The 5E model of inquiry-based learning was incorporated into a sophomore-level microbiology laboratory to increase student understanding of serial dilutions, a concept that is often difficult for most students to…
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When the mathematical structure of physics is used instead to show the relationships between ideas and concepts, without the algebraic manipulations and computations, students are not intimidated. This type of physics—…
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Seeds for Thought: Teaching students to teach themselves
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The experiment in this article erupted when a student shared that they had dumped grape juice into a flower bed and the custodian expressed frustration stating that nothing would grow. This prompted the teacher to…
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Inquiry Science and Active Reading
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The author presents a pair of fifth-grade activities: an inquiry science activity in which students conduct hands-on investigations of force and motion, and a reading activity where they collaboratively analyze a text…
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Idea Bank: Selecting Software for Students With Learning and Other Disabilities
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Have you ever bought a computer program that you thought would be great for your struggling students, only to find that it did not work on your school computers, or that your students found it difficult to use?…
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Trade Books for Learning: An Author's View
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What other ecosystem is as mysterious and compelling as the rain forest and home to innumerable living things that children may never have seen or heard of before? Answer: mangroves! These fascinating and important…
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www.studentthink.molecularbiology
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The Internet contains vast resources and information that students can use to study science. In particular, some molecular biology sites provide access to analytical programs and databases used by research scientists.…
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The Harvard Forest Schoolyard Ecology Program provides teachers and students with the opportunity and materials to participate in regionally focused ecological studies under the guidance of a mentor scientist working on…