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Students enrolled in an Enhanced Bioscience Education (EBE) program maintained two documents: a group notebook to record observations made in the bioscience laboratory and a personal journal to note reactions to the…
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Students can have positive experiences in college chemistry despite underdeveloped study habits by taking advantage of the resources available to help them study and prepare for courses. This article describes how Wayne…
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Teacher's Toolkit: Reforming cookbook labs
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The majority of ancillary materials provided with any textbook includes a large quantity of labs that have step-by-step instructions. Although it is important in science for students to learn how to follow directions,…
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Field-note poetry is the product of the authors’ efforts to combine current research in learning and cognition with integrated geoscience and language arts activities. In this article, they present a fun and effective…
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Science Sampler: Environmental Service Learning—The Clean Air Zone Service Learning Project
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In September 2006, the Maine Green Schools’ facilitators, consisting of environmental specialists from Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection and Energy Education Program, kicked off the Clean Air Zone Service…
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At RMIT University, students may now elect to study infectious diseases through a course called Outbreak—The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease. Outbreak was designed to simulate in an online class the…
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Science Shorts: The Challenge of Nutrition
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You have no doubt seen it in your classrooms and heard it in the news: Childhood obesity is an epidemic in the United States. Obesity may predispose children to health issues later in their lifetime, including type 2…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Essential data
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Answering a question or proposing an explanation based on evidence gathered from observations and measurements is at the heart of scientific inquiry. To develop this ability, teachers should provide repeated…
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After the bell: Food for thought (part I)— Science of food safety
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Consumers generally take for granted that the food they buy and eat is clean and free of pathogenic microorganisms. This overview of food safety will help ensure that the food purchased or consumed is wholesome and…
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The Case of Lobster Shell Disease
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The authors combined content-driven and inquiry-based lessons into the framework of problem-based learning. These older elementary students explored a local problem of lobsters infected by lobster shell disease.
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Get a Grip! A Middle School Engineering Challenge
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Investigating the field of engineering offers the opportunity for interdisciplinary, hands-on, inquiry-based units that integrate real-world applications; yet, many K-12 students are not exposed to engineering until…
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Broadcast Engineer Glenn Leffler
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Broadcast engineers maintain radio stations—their job is to keep stations on the air and making money. From rewiring a station’s equipment to fixing a transmitter on a mountaintop at 3:00 a.m., these engineers make sure…
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Pendulum racing from the playground to the physics lab. This inquiry-based physics lesson uses playground swings to introduce students to the motion of a pendulum. Students use graphical and mathematical methods to…
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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Your First Conference
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This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue offers strategies for a beneficial conference experience.
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Engaging Students in the Scientific Practices of Explanation and Argumentation
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This article examines the sixth and seventh practices concerning explanation and argumentation, which are highlighted in A Framework for K–12 Science Education.
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