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When taking students outside to see the stars is not an option, teachers can bring the stars inside the classroom. These instructions for building a portable planetarium also include suggestions for cross-cultural and…
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Exploring alternative energy with role-play and writing. This article describes a project that includes a two-week series of researching, writing, and speaking lessons exploring the broader implications of using ethanol…
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Encouraging Creativity in the Science Lab
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Although science is a creative endeavor (NRC 1996, p. 46), many students think they are not encouraged—or even allowed—to be creative in the laboratory. When students think there is only one correct way to do a lab,…
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After the Bell: On the road science
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Ask students about summer travel plans, then bring out the classroom globe or world map to find the places they name. You can deepen the texture of students' vacations by exploring the science contexts of their travels.
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Dialogues are recorded conversations between two or more people, and as an educational device the use of dialogues has been sporadic. This article, to illustrate the several uses of dialogues, includes a dialogue…
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Many of today’s college students come to class expecting the professor to tell them exactly what they need to study for the exam. They have little interest in reading the textbook, drawing answers from analogies, or…
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Scope on Safety: MSDS--What's it all about?
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OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) requires chemical manufactures to provide material safety data sheets (MSDS) for hazardous chemicals. This column will help science teachers, supervisors, and administrators…
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Science 101: What Causes Water's Surface Tension?
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The term “surface tension” is commonly used to explain phenomena like a paper clip resting on the surface of water or the “dome” of water that forms on a penny when water is carefully added to it drop-by-drop. You can…
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First-grade lessons on life science and classification address misconceptions.
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A wind vane is a tool for making observations of wind direction and initiating inquiries about the weather. Its construction and use continue to be mainstays of the science education of elementary students. By providing…
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Art Instruction in the Botany Lab: A Collaborative Approach
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Good observations are often fundamental to good science, and drawing has long been recognized as a tool to develop students’ observation skills. Yet when drawing in illustrated journals was introduced into botany…
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Blogs: Applications in Science Education
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Blogs are reshaping our political, social, and cultural environment. Education is affected by blogs because of their potential for learning and teaching, and also their risks. This article elaborates on a set of rules…
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Questions on Cue: Improving classroom practice through better question writing
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Constructed response questions gather valuable data but are not often used. This article lists the problems with these questions and addresses the problems by "cueing" the questions—sending a signal to begin a specific…
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Scope on the Skies: Planets a go-go
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The school year kicks off with a great parade of planets in the evening skies, as four of the six visible planets will make an appearance during the evening hours following sunset. For the first half of September,…
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Active Learning in the Lab: Positively influencing student attitudes toward chemistry
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One of the greatest challenges in education is finding methods of making learning meaningful for students while effectively preparing them for the workplace. One way to meet this challenge is to actively involve…
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