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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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The science concepts introduced in this activity, such as the workings of simple machines, energy, work, friction, and air resistance provide a good segue to designing solar-powered cars. By building solar-powered cars…
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Meeting State Standards Through Integration
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This article focuses on teaching science standards through doing, constructing, and connecting processes. Students engage in the "doing" through inquiry and hands-on activities. They ask questions, acquire knowledge,…
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Measuring Up: A Simple Lesson That Engages Students in Scientific Practices and Mathematics
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Students compare arm spans by measuring, graphing, and practicing important science skills. This lesson helps to incorporate mathematical standards from the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and scientific…
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Why not combine the use of technology with the excitement of a scavenger hunt that moves middle-level students out into the “wilds” of their school campus to classify plants? In the lesson plan described here, students…
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The indigo carmine demonstration (Ferguson et al. 1973), also referred to as a traffic-light demonstration (Flinn Scientific 2007a), is an example of a set of oxidation-reduction reactions that occurs within one…
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Powerful Ideas in Physical Science
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Powerful Ideas in Physical Science (PIPS) is a preservice curriculum that provides modules for physical science courses designed for elementary education majors. Because the courses are built on the learning cycle…
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