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Do you believe that science trade books can spark real-life involvement in saving a threatened fish? A successful science program at Westbrook Elementary School, in Bethesda, Maryland in which students participate in…
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When science teachers pass up the use of an inductive approach in their teaching, they miss a golden opportunity to improve their chances of attaining one of their avowed and highly regarded objectives of science…
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Point of View: What Makes it Science? A Modern Look
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Scientific inquiry differs from other human inquiry in the kind of evidence scientists pay attention to. Scientific evidence was born, historically of human curiosity and its search for practical explanations of…
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This article examines the construction of science journal texts by three elementary school children identified with special learning needs. These texts are examined to demonstrate how each child differently represented…
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Watch student interest grow as they shrink down everyday items in this study of thermoplastics.
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Elk Habitat: A Case Study of Scientific Inquiry
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A case study is an excellent way to help students think like scientists as they work to solve a dilemma. This article describes a case study of elk in Yellowstone National Park. Students read short narratives, based on…
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An opinion piece about the concerns highlighted at the Town Meeting at the 2001 NSTA Convention.
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This article describes ways to teach lunar stratigraphy and the nature of science.
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Society for College Science Teachers: Never Underestimate the Dark Side of the Force
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Implementing best practices, however well supported by research, is resisted by both circumstances and people. Thus, what you read and hear about methods others have used must be modified and compromised to fit the…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Living?
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Uncover the hidden meanings children construct.
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Design, create plan, direct, edit, and produce a video lab report using students' own experimental data.
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Ask the Experts—September 2004
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The experts address the following question in this month’s column: Why do geckos make sounds and why mostly at night?
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On August 11, 1999, the Kansas State Board of Education voted six to four to remove references to cosmology and evolution from the state’s education standards and assessments. However, the author believes that students…
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Switch on Student Interest: Learning to derive the equation for resistors in parallel
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In this lab activity, traditional parallel circuit problems were used to evaluate students' understanding of the relationship that exists among resistors in parallel. But the students now "owned" the equation that they…
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This article describes the mobilization, planning, and implementation of a first-year interdiciplinary course for STEM majors that integrates key concepts found in traditional first-semester biology, chemistry, computer…
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