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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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Career of the Month: Foodborne Disease Epidemiologist
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Did you know that Salmonella and E. coli are just two of more than 250 different identified foodborne diseases? To Jack Guzewich, a Foodborne Disease Epidemiologist with the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center…
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Summer is the time to work on next year with the luxury of time. This section gives an overview of ideas that involve time for preparation or coordination. This is time that November may not provide but that summer…
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Genetic Counselor Jennifer Facher
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. In this month’s issue find out about Jennifer Facher's rewarding job as genetic counselor.
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The Green Room: The Ecology of Food
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses modern agricultural technologies.
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Cold Scat Creamery: Using Ice-Cream-Parlor Tricks to Create Fake Scat
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Create fake scat that reflects animal diets and have students learn about local wildlife, animal sign identification, and a variety of animal diet classifications.
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Allelopathy is a naturally occurring process by which chemicals produced by a plant have a detrimental effect on competing plants. This activity explores how trees protect their limited resource through chemical warfare.
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Science Sampler: The science of Murphy's Laws
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Murphy's Laws are a collection of statements that basically reinforce the notion that if something can go wrong, it will. They provide an innovative, entertaining vehicle for introducing students to doing science.
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Digital cameras can provide added value to classroom data collection allowing the students to make visual connections between their hypotheses, data, and inferences. Digital data appears more concrete and "real" to…
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In this month’s column, the experts address the following question: When you lose 10 pounds, where does it go?
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Students from a rural middle school in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, joined with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore a native tallgrass prairie. The students, known as the Prairie Science Class, discovered that…
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Tech Trek: Probing for Answers
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Recent advances in data-collection technologies have given students access to the same types of probes used by scientists in research labs. Probes allow students to collect data on variables such as pH, acceleration,…
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