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Science Sampler: The science of skin color
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For many teachers of life science, one of the favorite parts of the curriculum is the unit on heredity. Students love to discover how and from whom they’ve inherited certain traits such as tongue rolling, earlobe shape…
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Using the Past in Class: Learning from historical models of cell membranes
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Studying the history of science shows students how science is a process that occurs over time. A sample lesson in which secondary life science students examine the history of the development of the cell membrane model…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Representing Microscopic Life
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment probe "Pond Water," which reveals how elementary children will often apply what they know about animal…
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Science Sampler: Using science journals to encourage all students to write
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It seems that everyone is using science journals or notebooks lately. As middle school science teachers, the authors use science journals as a tool to enhance students' knowledge and understanding of content and…
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After the Bell: Radio astronomers for a day
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In this activity, students take a field trip to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia. This interactive field experience helped make science come alive and helped convey the nature…
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Science, Technology, and YA Lit
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This article provides three engaging projects science teachers can use to help students develop environmental consciousness and global awareness using young adult literature and technology.
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The students at Xavier University's general biology course learn about evolution by ascending a stairway in a science building. Along the stairwell walls students examine fossils and explanatory texts while the…
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The Prepared Practitioner: Summer Reading
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With summer in full swing, now is a great time to recommend summer reading about science and scientists. Since space is limited, let’s dive right in!
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Idea Bank: Diving Into Professional Development
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The challenge of the Research and Education: Volcanoes, Exploration and Life (REVEL) Project, sponsored by the University of Washington School of Oceanography, is to teach, energize, and reinvigorate teachers, so that…
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Despite their experiences with a cartoon sponge, most elementary students know little about the diverse inhabitants of coral reefs. Therefore, with vivid photography and video, diverse coral reef inhabitants were…
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Science Sampler: A puffin adventure
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Through collaboration with the local chapter of the National Audubon Society, students learn how to become responsible and involved citizens, and discover the positive impact their actions can have on the world. Using…
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Idea Bank: What's Up with Kudzu?
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The abundance of Kudzu—a Japanese vine—in the state of Mississippi provides a natural pathway for discovery opportunities. All over the South in late spring and summer, Kudzu wreaks havoc; the vine can overtake…
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Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor (1974) is an inspiring book in which the author invites readers to go “rock finding” by laying out ten rules for finding a “perfect” rock. In this way, the book encourages children…
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Science Sampler: Teaching cell anatomy with a fabric model
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One of the most important, yet difficult, life science concepts for students to grasp is that “all life functions of humans and other organisms are carried out by cells” (Lang 1991). Specifically, the function of…
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The main features of lunar geology are now fairly well known, perhaps better known than some aspects of terrestrial geology. This is not surprising—the Moon’s main internal activity stopped billions of years ago, unlike…
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