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Research and Teaching: Promoting Student Learning in a Large General Chemistry Course
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Based on recent reports in the science education literature, curricular modifications were made to one section of a freshman-level general chemistry course. Assessment results indicate that these modifications resulted…
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The Case Study: Racism and All Sorts of Politically Correct <em> isms </em> in Case Studies
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Case studies typically do not promulgate a particular viewpoint about a subject. They may, however, take a particular stance on an issue—one the author does not necessarily personally support or believe in—to challenge…
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This article provides ideas for introducing students to herpetology.
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Tried and True: Inside the Earth: Using Cookie Dough to Teach the Layers of the Earth
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This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue discusses using cookie dough to assess what students know about the layers of the Earth.
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“I have no energy! Energy is everywhere! Solar energy comes from the Sun. Energy drinks give you energy!” These are the typical responses from sixth-grade students when asked about what they know about energy. Students…
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Tried and True: Soil is more than just dirt
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This article describes a series of activities in which students investigate soil, culminating in the biomimicry of reducing landfill waste. After students learned about soil’s ecosystem structure and the function of its…
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Editor's Note: Stand Up and Be Counted
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Fourth graders model water's role in changing Earth's surface.
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Weather Detectives: Searching for Cool Clues
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It is a well-kept secret that weather is nature's way of redistributing energy and converting it to heat. There are many opportunities to teach these concepts—all it takes is a little detective work to recognize them.…
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In this article, the authors describe a two-phase inquiry lesson in which students explore the catalytic activity of amylase on starch (Rungruangsa and Panijpan 1979). In the first phase, students’ prior knowledge about…
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Science Shorts: Making a Case for Camouflage
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What child doesn’t enjoy a good game of hide-and-seek? There is the challenge of finding the perfect hiding spot and, of course, the allure of the hunt. Though children get great pleasure from the game, many members of…
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The setting: the science classroom. The characters: you and your students. The scene: Your students acting out scientific discoveries, modeling a frog’s life cycle, mimicking the transition from liquid to solid. This is…
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Science Sampler: Smelling the chocolate—The Perks of modeling habit of mind
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Branston, a sixth-grade urban charter school student, used scientific habits of mind to explain a real event. This was due to a series of lessons that make up the “smell” unit (Krajcik et al. 2006), a six-week, project-…
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This article discusses the structure, content, and implementation of a new course designed to teach the crucial essentials of the scientific enterprise to the nonscience major. The focus is the attempt to teach the…
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Visualizing NeuroscienceL Learning about the Brain through Art
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Neuroscience is a subject that can motivate, excite, and stimulate the curiosity of everyone. However, the study of the brain is made difficult by an abundance of new vocabulary words and abstract concepts. The art…
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