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A Consumer Guide to Professional Development
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How can a science teacher find professional development (PD) opportunities that are meaningful, coherent, and sustained that will foster teacher and student learning? The authors believe that science teachers can and…
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To Review or Not to Review? Review techniques help foster student achievement
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Review techniques are implemented to enhance student understanding of material and assessment performance. Reviewing materials before an exam gives students more exposure and experience with the subject matter, and the…
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Commentary: The Case for Integrated Science
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An opinion piece about the increasing interest in high school integrated science courses throughout the United States.
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This article describes how geologists investigate groundwater flow systems in areas of karst topography—geologic formations shaped by dissolving bedrock—and provides a way for students to replicate this research.…
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Developing Patterns for Learning in Science Through Reflection
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The process of the development of critical thinking and knowledge application requires more than rote memorization and the ability to get correct answers on lab reports or on a multiple-choice test. Purposeful, guided…
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Commentary: Let Fossils Make the Case
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An opinion piece about how to teach evolution to students who already have misconceptions.
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Earth Science Week (ESW) 2008 encourages people around the globe to open doors and investigate new opportunities. This year’s theme, “No Child Left Inside,” is a call to explore our natural environments. The celebration…
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Connecting to Your Community Through Birds and Citizen Science
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Use BirdSleuth to engage students in a variety of community-based birding activities.
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In this activity, students build and experiment with a balloon car for a hands-on investigation of action and reaction in a jet propulsion simulation, with the help of a few plastic plungers from Push-Up ice cream…
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Science Sampler: A slice of solar cooking
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Using the principles of scientific investigation, students design a solar cooker using materials supplied by the teacher. Students then spend individual time designing a solar cooker on their own. Afterward, students…
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The Polar Insulation Investigation
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In this article an oceanographer discusses her development of an activity to help students explore polar-related questions more fully. "The Polar Insulation Investigation" builds on students' natural interest in "…
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Putting Public Television to Work for You
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Public television programs such as ZOOM, A Science Odyssey, and NOVA can be a great way to enhance the science curriculum. Suggestions for using these programs in the classroom and accessing supplemental materials,…
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Tried and True: Whatever floats your boat
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Ever since Archimedes ran down the streets of ancient Greece shouting, “Eureka!,” scientists have understood that a submerged body displaces a volume of water equal to its own volume. Scientists also came to realize…
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The Home Zone: Flying Together
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Airplanes, like kites and other flying objects, are of great interest to elementary children. Like the Wright brothers and countless other aviation pioneers, children seem to enjoy the process of designing, making, and…
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The Case of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: The Scientific Process and How it Relates to Everyday Life
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In this case study, based on the reported rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in April 2005, students examine a real-world example of the scientific process and explore the practical implications of their…
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