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Typically, teachers use simple models that employ differences in temperature and density to help students visualize convection. However, most of these models are incomplete or merely hint at (instead of model)…
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Favorite Demonstration: MOM Teaches Chemistry
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Bring in an expert to demonstrate simple chemistry concepts—MOM! Milk of Magnesia (MOM) is used in this practical demonstration that is simple to do, safe to perform, and engages students as they try to figure out and…
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Teaching Students to Create Undiscovered Ideas
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Science curricula often guide us to teach students just the facts, but our students need to be prepared for life in the 21st century. Since technology is developing rapidly, we do not know what new technologies,…
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From Copernicus to Galileo, from Schleiden and Schwann to Watson and Crick, our understanding of the world around us has changed with developing technologies. Information technology, or the input, sharing, and…
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Home Sweet Home: How to Build a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Habitat Out of Recycled Materials
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Madagascar hissing cockroaches (MHC) are amazing insects that can be an integral part of an effective science learning and teaching environment. MHCs have a fascinating social structure. They make excellent pets, teach…
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Green Science: Revisiting Recycling
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This column focuses on issues related to environmentally friendly and sustainable science. This month’s issue covers recycling.
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The Virtual Gorilla Modeling Project (VGOR)—a professional development project—is a collaboration of middle and high school in-service teachers, Zoo Atlanta primatologists, science and computer educators, and students.…
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The <i>Next Generation Science Standards</i>: A Focus on Physical Science
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This article focuses on the NGSS disciplinary core ideas in physical science, the development of those ideas across time, the importance of blending core ideas with scientific and engineering practices to build…
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Safe Science: Using Ionizing Radiation—A Hot Opportunity
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website dealing with education resources reported the results of an inspection, by an environmental engineer, that revealed radioactive materials in a Massachusetts high school…
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Helping students to identify variable can be the key to other aspects of an investigation, such as the use of tables or graphs. In this article, we describe a tool we have successfully used to highlight the role of…
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Outdoor Adventures: Tracking Eastern Box Turtles
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This project engages students in an authentic task involving an endangered species, the eastern box turtle. It emphasizes learning by doing science and promotes character growth, teamwork, reflection, and scientific…
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The Case Study: Case Studies and the Media
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Just as comedians find content for their material in newspapers and on television, it is possible for educators to use the media as a great source of material. As case study teachers it is important to look for hooks in…
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Editor's Corner: Food for Thought
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Food issues often appear in the news and other media. For example, the media regularly address food safety concerns—from Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or “Mad Cow Disease” to Salmonella and Escherichia coli…
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Use of Genomic Databases for Inquiry-Based Learning About Influenza
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The genome projects of the past decades have created extensive databases of biological information with applications in both research and education. We describe an inquiry-based exercise that uses one such database,…
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This fascinating interdisciplinary project combines satellite imagery with the technique of silk painting in batik. Students choose a Landsat image, enlarge the area of interest, and paint it onto silk. To assess the…
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