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  • The Green Room: Exploring Fuel Efficiency

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    This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue offers classroom activities dealing with fuel efficiency.

  • Editor's Corner - Science Literacy: Then and Now

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    The history of science is also a history of science writing. For scientists and also for our science students, the ability to communicate through writing and reading is a crucial skill at the heart of developing…

  • Scope on Safety: Proactive safety

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    Horrifying stories of accidents in the science lab abound. You may think that such accidents could never happen in your lab, but accidents do happen even in the most controlled environments. So, the best thing you can…

  • Dopplerball

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    Dopplerball is used at the end of a unit on waves and sound to give students firsthand experience with the Doppler effect. Students play the game in silence wearing a blindfold.

  • Active Learning in Introductory Climatology: A Software Package that Forecasts Sunny Skies for Climatological Research

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    Introducing the software package “ClimProb” to their University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, the authors created a more exciting and interesting classroom environment by encouraging students to learn through critical…

  • Creating Case Study Presentations: A Survey of Senior Seminar Students

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    Senior seminar students were surveyed on their opinions of a course that required them to create and present original formal case studies; this resulted in an accumulation of quantitative and qualitative data that were…

  • Hands-On Science, 680 Hands at a Time

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    This article explains how students can do hands-on science in a large lecture theater with seats bolted to the floor. It specifically describes the logistics of doing a collapsing can activity in such a large class to…

  • Editor's Note (September 2002)

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    Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue. Many of the articles relate to nature.

  • Editor’s Roundtable: Chemistry beyond the chemicals

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    Middle level teachers need to show students that chemistry is not just about blowing things up or memorizing the periodic table of elements. We should help them see that chemistry involves living organisms as well as…

  • Investigations in the Science of Sports

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    The Sisters in Sport Science (SISS) program addresses the need for girls to gain equitable access to science and mathematics education by using sport as a vehicle for learning. Through sport, not only are girls learning…

  • Safer Science: “Chemicals of Interest” and More

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    In the science classroom, developing security involves more than just looking up chemicals. Securing high school science laboratories, preparation rooms, and storerooms is an integral part of protecting schools and the…

  • Merging Science and Society: An Issues-Based Approach to Nonmajors Biology

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    The effectiveness of an issues-based approach to nonmajors biology was investigated. The integration of online critical-thinking exercises and in-class discussions of science-related issues did not improve exam scores.…

  • Scope on Safety: More ergo, less aargh!

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    Is your job a pain in the neck, wrist, or back? If so, ergonomics may provide you with some relief. Ergonomics is the science of adapting workstations, tools, equipment, and job practices to be compatible with the…

  • A Garden Story

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    Gardening in a neglected schoolyard became a catalyst for schoolwide science learning in an urban school in Detroit. Not only did students learn about plant requirements and care for numerous flowers and trees, but they…

  • Applied Coastal Oceanography—A Course that Integrates Science and Business: Teaching the Role of Science in the World of Business—Rhode Island's Bryant College Curriculum initiative

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    A challenging aspect of teaching science at a business specialty school is helping students to understand the role that science plays in everyday lives and will play in professional lives. To address this lack of…

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