Career of the Month: Foodborne Disease Epidemiologist

Journal Article | August 2005

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…

Editor's Note (July 2005)

Journal Article | June 2005

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…

Career of the Month: An Interview with Genetic Counselor Jennifer Facher

Journal Article | October 2003

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.

The Green Room: The Ecology of Food

Journal Article | June 2012

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses modern agricultural technologies.

Cold Scat Creamery: Using Ice-Cream-Parlor Tricks to Create Fake Scat

Journal Article | March 2013

Create fake scat that reflects animal diets and have students learn about local wildlife, animal sign identification, and a variety of animal diet classifications.

Turf Protecting Toxins

Journal Article | September 2002

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.

Science Sampler: The science of Murphy's Laws

Journal Article | October 2003

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.

Making Connections with Digital Data: Digital camera technology helps students draw connections between their hypotheses, data, and inferences

Journal Article | December 2003

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…

Ask the Experts—October 2007

Journal Article | September 2007

In this month’s column, the experts address the following question: When you lose 10 pounds, where does it go?

The Prairie Science Class

Journal Article | March 2005

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…

Tech Trek: Probing for Answers

Journal Article | December 2003

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,…

Science Sampler: Bushwhacking for Bones

Journal Article | January 2004

An Earthwatch Institute Moose and Wolves Expedition to Isle Royale in Lake Superior was an excellent professional development opportunity in which the author built camaraderie with fellow teachers and created a predator…

Society for College Science Teachers: What They Don't Know

Journal Article | June 2006

When you read the title, your first thought it was probably about the undergraduates you are teaching and perhaps some "common scientific knowledge" that they should have acquired in high school. Perhaps you started…

Editor's Corner: Experiencing Emotional Science . . .

Journal Article | November 2000

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.

Early Years: Teaching Young Scientists About Their Bodies

Journal Article | August 2012

Children create models to develop understanding of how bones function to support vertebrate animal bodies.