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Editor's Roundtable: Puzzled by ETS?
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Teachers have to be creative with limited funds to generate the materials needed to support programs. This author identifies an enjoyable way to enlist the help and support of students and parents for a scavenger hunt.
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What Poisoned the Apple Juice? A Gram staining and selective media lab
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Although it is difficult to develop short inquiry lab exercises when introducing techniques such as the Gram stain, this scenario gives students authentic problems and helps them pose their own questions. Background…
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Idea Bank: Thinking Like Scientists
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Students often find it challenging to adopt the mindset needed in inquiry-based science classes—that is, to think and act like scientists and use the processes of science. To familiarize students with this mindset,…
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Using the Science Writing Heuristic: Training Chemistry Teaching Assistants
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Promoting the use of the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) among novice teaching assistants at a large university is facilitated by a program of instructional training and mentoring. Sessions include hands-on activities…
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Editor’s Corner: A Return to Nature
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In the recent book by Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods (2005), he suggests that, for the first time in human history, young people today are growing up with little or no meaningful contact with the natural world.…
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Science 2.0: Engineering, Modeling, and Computational Thinking
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue describes software programs used for modeling.
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Scope on Safety: STEM: A question of safety.
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This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the growth of STEM lessons and the need to address hazard recognition and safety training relative to the use of hand and power…
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In a final class project, art and communications students taking science and mathematics courses at Chicago’s Columbia College and the Illinois Institute of Art produce a significant creative work using a media of their…
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Storm Trackers: In an inquiry-based unit, students learn to track hurricanes
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Storm Trackers is an inquiry-based unit designed to combine science, mathematics, geography, and English in an Earth science class. It places students in realistic problem-solving situations and presents meteorology…
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With funding and support from the NASA Office of Space Science through the IDEAS program, a team of teachers from Gullett Elementary School in Austin, Texas, and a research scientist at the University of Texas, worked…
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Action Research Brings Results
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Action Research, defined as long-term efforts by teachers to collect and examine their own data to make informed decisions about instruction, is one form of professional development that allows teachers to choose from a…
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Science 101: How does photosynthesis work?
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Energy transformations are an important part of the functioning of ecosystems, and a key part of those energy transformations is photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, bacteria, and other…
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Guest Editorial: Physics or stamp collecting? Pitfalls of the hierarchy of disciplines
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In science and in academia, there is often a de facto hierarchy of disciplines with the so-called “hard” sciences (physics, chemistry) at the top, and the “soft” sciences (psychology, sociology) at the bottom (Tudge…
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Scope on Safety: Avoiding the burn
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A major cause of injuries in middle and high school science laboratories can be summarized by one word—heat. Heated liquids, glassware, and hot plates are the most common source of student burns in the lab. Training—the…
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