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  • A Workshop on UNIX, Workstations, and Internet Connections: Demontrating to Nonusers the Vast Potential of Today's Computers

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    More and more of today's computer users need to keep pace with improved technology by enhancing their proficiency beyond word processing or spreadsheet applications to employ more sophisticated operating systems. The…

  • Assessing Students’ Ideas About Plants

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    This article contains an interview protocol that will help you gather information about your elementary students’ ideas related to plants. By implementing the protocol, you will be able to discover what kinds of…

  • Tech Trek: Flash forward to problem-based science

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    Read about The Reconstructors, a website designed to combine aspects of problem-based learning and science standards and deliver them over the Web via interesting multimedia.

  • Teaching With Crystal Structures

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    Classifying a particle requires an understanding of the type of bonding that exists within and among the particles, which requires an understanding of atomic structure and electron configurations, which requires an…

  • Whiteboarding Your Way to Great Student Discussions

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    Dry erase boards, sometimes called whiteboards, are a powerful tool for facilitating discussion within groups of students. When each group receives a large whiteboard and specific instructions about how to use the board…

  • The Built Environment

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    For a science teacher in a city, it can sometimes be a challenge to find curricula that are geared specifically toward urban students. The author tackled this dilemma by creating a unit that focused on the urban…

  • Editor's Note (February 2002)

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    Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts and suggests an extraordinary effort to involve parents in their child's science learning. Try sharing your educational challenge with your students' parents--together this…

  • Methods and Strategies: On the Case

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    Implementing environmental science case studies helps students experience science in a meaningful way. This article describes a case study that involves the effects of the invasive plant kudzu.

  • Methods and Strategies: Science Success for Students With Special Needs

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    Recent special education legislation such as the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) emphasizes the placement of students with mild disabilities in the general education classroom. Therefore, students with learning…

  • Idea Bank: Two Green Thumbs Up!

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    Teaching with movie clips is one strategy to increase student understanding of environmental science. Whether accurate or not, “movie science” can expose students to phenomena that are difficult to explore in the…

  • Commentary: To Err Is . . .

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    An opinion piece about teachers making mistakes and how students will learn to accept failed demonstrations and be challenged by them.

  • The Hydraulic Jump

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    This article presents a phenomenon, the hydraulic jump, as a way to help students see the complexity behind the seemingly simple and build experience and interest in the practice of science research.

  • Structuring the Level of Inquiry in Your Classroom

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    As the upcoming school year approaches, many science teachers may be looking for new ways to incorporate inquiry in their classrooms. Fortunately, teachers have an array of inquiry activities at their fingertips. But…

  • Exploring Native Science

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    This article describes an innovative summer camp program that serves middle school Iñupiat and Athabascan students from the interior and the arctic regions of Alaska. The camp enables students to learn from Native…

  • Libros de Ciencias en Español (2001)

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    From well-designed board books that introduce preschoolers to animals and their young to lighthearted explanations of survival and extinction, from a poetic narrative about the sense of smell to a humorous introduction…

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