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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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Science Sampler: Bushwhacking for Bones
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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…
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Society for College Science Teachers: What They Don't Know
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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…
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Editor's Corner: Experiencing Emotional Science . . .
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.
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Early Years: Teaching Young Scientists About Their Bodies
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Children create models to develop understanding of how bones function to support vertebrate animal bodies.
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The field of environmental communication focuses on how multidisciplinary science, natural resource management, and environmental policy are communicated to different audiences. This activity uses the "jigsaw" approach…
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Reading Your Way to Scientific Literacy
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Having students read and analyze scientific articles gives them an understanding of scientific information as presented in the literature. After studying classic and recent research articles, students answer homework…
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Point of View: Seen Any Red Pandas Lately?
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We humans are pattern finders and explanation seekers. Fortunately, many of our seemingly reasonable patterns and explanations have not withstood the test of time. For example, we no longer believe that volcanic…
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Formative Assessment: Redirecting the Plan
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The science teachers at New Hampshire’s Concord High School are no longer satisfied with what Wiggins and McTighe call the “teach, test, and hope for the best” learning cycle (2005). These teachers have been stepping up…
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Science and Social Studies in a Nutshell
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This articles discusses three practicum students and how they took students' interests in peanuts and expanded it into a full unit concerning nuts and the history behind them. In addition to observing, classifying, and…
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An innovative zoo outreach program, Our Zoo to You, places zoo animals in local classrooms for extended observation periods. With guidance and support from zoo staff, students are able to safely experience a variety of…
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