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Science Shorts: Snowflake Symmetry
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Even if you get snow in your area, studying real snowflakes in situ can be challenging, but you can still develop a dynamic, hands- and minds-on exploration that can be conducted year-round. Images of actual snowflakes…
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Embed Assessment in Your Teaching
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Broadly defined, embedded assessment using performance tasks requires students to write, read, and solve problems in genuine, rather than artificial ways. It is as an ongoing, cyclical process in which teachers gather…
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President’s Message: Meeting the Needs of the New World Student
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To succeed in the 21st century, students have to learn how to be creative problem solvers who can work in collaborative groups. These new-world students must have the ability to think critically, use technology…
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Every Day Science Calendar: August 2006
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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Teachers incorporate plants into the curriculum to learn about various subjects in addition to botany. Students use web-based resources, such as the Human Flower Project website, to explore the world of plants.
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank, students begin the physics class by studying the behavior of light. In this activity, the teacher…
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Textbook Alignment: Aligning the curriculum with benchmarks and standards
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Why is alignment so important? What difference does it make if textbooks include activities that are not aligned? The Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the National Science Education Standards include in their science…
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A Journal-Club-Based Class That Promotes Active and Cooperative Learning of Biology
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A journal-club-based class has been developed to promote active and cooperative learning and expose seniors in biochemistry and cellular molecular biology to recent research in the field. Besides giving oral…
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Diagnosing and Dealing with Student Misconceptions: Floating and Sinking
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Misconceptions broadly exist in a variety of subject areas, such as physics, biology, geography, and other sciences. Among them, bringing students to an understanding of why things sink and float has proved to be one of…
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Ionic bonding is a fundamental topic in high school chemistry, yet it continues to be a concept that students struggle to understand. Even if they understand atomic structure and ion formation, it can be difficult for…
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This activity features an after-school "Science Challenge Day," with the idea of getting students excited and involved in science, both inside and outside of the classroom. For this educator, just hearing the students'…
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Idea Bank: Electronic BeeSpace
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Recent press coverage of the decrease in worldwide honeybee population (Kaplan 2010) has significantly increased public awareness of its ecological and economic importance. In addition, honeybees’ social nature, novel…
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Integrative Biology: A Capstone Course for an Introductory Biology Core
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A capstone to a biology introductory curriculum was developed with the specific goals of enhancing integration of course content, promoting development of oral presentation skills and critical reading and thinking…
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The author suggests expanding the NSTA community to two-year communities and four-year communities, so they can participate in conversations about grades 13–16 coordination.
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Everyday Engineering: Charcoal—Can It Corral Chlorine?
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This column provides an inside look at the marvels of engineering in everyday life. This issue discusses the use of charcoal in water filters.
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