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Have you participated in professional development (PD) programs that never met your expectations? Have you found it difficult to find a program that fits well with your academic and pedagogical needs? If so, the author…
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Editorial: Coming Soon -- Isn't Your Science Just a Theory?
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Many of our fellow citizens believe that creationist claims deserve equal time with evolution in biology class. "After all, isn't evolution just a theory?" The federal government has spent billions on science…
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Evolution: Don't Debate, Educate
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Although controversies will undoubtedly continue, scientists should balance their desire for political, legal, and educational confrontation with creationists with the long-term goal of educating all students about…
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Buffer Biology: A design-your-own lab for chemistry
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This article presents a buffer investigation to learn about the buffering capacity of household products such as shampoo and hand lotion. Students design and perform their own chemistry lab to gain a better…
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Collaborative Distance Learning
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How can you connect teachers in two different school districts, separated by more than 50 miles, on a weekly basis to provide ongoing professional development (PD)? The answer: videoconferencing. In this article, the…
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Science Sampler: Showing students how they write—Using writing portfolios in science
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What happens to teacher feedback once papers are handed back to the students? This article features a new method for helping students use teacher comments to improve their science writing skills.
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So, You Want to Host a Family Science Night?
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From recruiting volunteers to selecting activities and everything in between, this article offers tips on organizing a successful family science event at your school. It includes discrepant event activity examples,…
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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Combating Cheating in the Classroom
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Cheating is nothing new—students have been finding ways to do it for years. Though you'll never be able to catch every cheater, there are some steps you can take to minimize cheating in your classroom. This month's…
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The Evolution Readiness project introduces fourth-grade students to a series of big ideas that would lead them to understand the theory of evolution by natural selection. The goal in developing this project was to cover…
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Communicating Science Concepts Through Art: 21st-Century Skills in Practice
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To demonstrate the strength of integrating conceptual art strategies into a variety of science curricula, science teachers recruited the school's art teacher to provide basic art lessons during science classes. This…
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For scientists, the sandbox serves as an analog for faulting in Earth’s crust. Here, the large, slow processes within the crust can be scaled to the size of a table, and time scales are directly observable. This makes…
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A new activity model for scientific inquiry is presented here with the overall intent of providing students and teachers with a deeper understanding of how science is really done. With this model students learn that the…
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Cougars, Curriculum, and Community
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Cougars are fascinating creatures and most students are naturally interested in learning about them. This article describes the design and implementation of the Cougar Conservation Project (CCP), a problem-based…
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Some may argue that gifted children have many education options, but these options do not always help gifted students learn science. Unfortunately, gifted students often do not reach their full academic potential—they…
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Scope on Safety: Science storage requirements
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Middle school science teachers need to address two issues concerning storage. First, if it is insufficient, they need to work with administrators to secure additional storage area(s). Second, whether sufficient or not,…
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