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This project—the JAMES (Joining Across Miles Environmental Systems)—gave high school students the chance to do research involving technology and integrated science and allowed university science methods students the…
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Creating a College-Going Culture
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Research indicates that increased parental involvement has a positive impact on student achievement, especially among Hispanic students (Zarate 2007; NSTA 2010). This author helped science teachers at Falfurrias High…
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Reflecting on a Misconception: Can students see a full-length image in a small mirror?
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Looking at the reflection of our image in a mirror is so commonplace that most of us are unaware of the misconception we hold with respect to this phenomenon. This article provides an activity that will help students…
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With the 2010 Winter Olympic Games prominent in the media, children were exposed to images of athletes skiing down snow-covered slopes, coasting furiously on bobsleds, and skating gracefully across the ice. Therefore,…
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Editor’s Roundtable: We’ve come a long way from the four elements
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As our technology advanced, so has the sophistication of our classification systems. Over time, we’ve moved from the ancient Greeks’ four elements to the periodic table, and from classifying animals by the way they move…
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Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists During Cooperative Investigations
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To help students think like scientists during cooperative science investigations, the author developed the “thinking roles” strategy described in this article. Thinking roles make students responsible for asking certain…
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Finding Science Past and Present: National Buildings Museum, Washington, D.C.
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The National Buildings Museum, which was founded in 1980, is perhaps the only museum focusing exclusively on the art and science of design and building construction in the United States. Exhibits and programs explore…
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This writing-intensive, lab-based, nonmajor biology course explores scientific inquiry and biological concepts through specific topics illustrated or inaccurately depicted in works of science fiction. The laboratory…
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Using Scoring Rubrics to Evaluate Inquiry
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This article explores the problem of assigning grades to students engaged in nontraditional activities, especially scientific inquiry. The authors suggest using scoring rubrics to guide students in their work and to…
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Wrinkles can be a good thing. The more corrugated the brain, the better. This unit on the brain features some activities to help get this fascinating information to middle school students without their eyes glossing…
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Genetics of Sesame Street<sup>TM</sup> Characters
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By enlisting the of Elmo, Zoe, Grover, and friends, the author brought a genetics unit to life. In this week-long unit, the students (1) create a gene map for a particular Sesame Street character, (2) move the resulting…
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This article chronicles a principal's wish which sparked an environmental education program at his school. The program evolved into a community wide effort which reaches more than 1000 students each year. The program…
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Why Read Picture Books in Science Class? (Chapters 1-5)
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This free e-book provides more information on how to teach Picture-Perfect Science Lessons in your classroom—including key reading strategies and standards connections. The e-book includes the Table of Contents,…
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Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12 (e-book)
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This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class” to “we need to figure out why or how things happen in the…
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Winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award from PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers! What ideas do young children bring to their science learning, and how does their thinking change as…
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