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Teaching Through Trade Books: It's Electric!
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this month’s issue the authors use simple, safe tools to teach about electric circuits.
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Favorite Demonstration: Demonstrating a Thermodynamics Fountain
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Cryogenic materials, mainly liquefied and solidified gases, are probably the most fascinating materials to use for demonstrating chemical reactions to introductory college students. A popular series of articles (…
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The Early Years: Bring On Spring—Planting Peas
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Growing peas helps children who grow food at home make a connection between school and home by sharing their experience, and those who have never seen a field of crops make a connection between soil, weather, and food…
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The word sort is just 1 of 30 active-learning and critical-thinking strategies that was implemented into a community college nutrition course over an academic year (two semesters) during a mixed-design research study.…
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The Case Study: The Case of the Dividing Cell—Mitosis and Meiosis in the Cellular Court
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The Honorable Judge Cellular is presiding over the case of the State v. Egg Cell Number 6624223. As the prosecuting attorney calls each witness to the stand and the courtroom drama unfolds, students learn about the…
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Idea Bank: The Area of an Irregular Object
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Science teachers are often looking for ways to integrate more mathematics applications into laboratory situations. Quantifiable data can provide students with a greater understanding of scientific concepts. Direct…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Survival Skills
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Animals have many adaptations that help them survive in their environment and meet their special needs of food and shelter. This month’s column focuses on two such adaptations: camouflage and beaks. This articles comes…
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In this month’s Ask the Experts column, the following question is addressed: “Do the cells in a placenta have DNA in them and if so, whose DNA does it match, the mother or the fetus?”
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The Art and Science of Notebooks
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Along with inquiry-based teaching, exploring the elements of art can guide students to view and represent objects realistically. Understanding line, shape, color, value, form, space, and texture helps bridge the gap…
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Teaching Demands verses Research Productivity
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Faculty in undergraduate institutions are scholars and need to be actively engaged in research. They must also publish and get grants to be promoted and tenured. The strong demand on their time for teaching and college…
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Science Sampler: Glacial ice action
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Current news reports discuss the loss of glacial ice in the Antarctic and Greenland as examples of the effects of global warming. But what are glaciers and how do they work? An understanding of the process that causes…
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Science Sampler: Classroom management, rules, consequences, and rewards! Oh, my!
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Teachers must start with an organized classroom. Think through how you want your classroom arranged, how students will turn in work, and where supplies are located. Students should also be instructed how the classroom…
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Atomic Poetry: Using poetry to teach Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus
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Most students regard literature and science as two separate subjects with no obvious connections to one another. This interdisciplinary, cross-curricular approach integrates the two to teach physical science students…
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The lessons many students learn in traditional school curricula are too removed from the problems they encounter in daily life to be useful. One tool that can be used in the classroom to help students analyze and…
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Bridging Science and Engineering
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The Colleges of Engineering and Education at Penn State University have collaborated to design and deliver an engineering course for education and other nonscience majors. In this course, students integrate basic…
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