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  • Every Day Science Calendar: September 2008

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    This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.

  • Science Motivation in the Multicultural Classroom: Students construct science knowledge through active participation

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    A strong multicultural curriculum and instruction can make significant changes in motivating students in science and mathematics. In an effort to increase participation in science, the authors offer suggestions for…

  • The Case Study: What To Do About Mother—Investigating Fetal Tissue Research and the Effects of Parkinson's Disease

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    This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue is a real case dealing with one of the medical…

  • Teaching Through Trade Books: Meet the Decomposers

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    This month's Teaching Through Trade Books column focuses on three books about decomposers: Compost Critters, A Pill Bug’s Life, and A Slug's Life. Activities for grades K-3 and 4-6 help children learn about animals’…

  • RAISE: Using Geospatial Technology in the Public School

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    The Rural Alliance for Improving Science Education (RAISE) partners Oklahoma State University with three public school districts in Oklahoma, enabling Oklahoma State University science graduate students to serve as…

  • A Quest to Improve

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    Questions are powerful tools that are central to scientific inquiry. Given the importance of investigable questions to scientific inquiry, what can teachers do to help students learn how to generate them? Possibilities…

  • Personalizing the Goals of Undergraduate Research

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    Research experiences are becoming increasingly available for undergraduate science students. Although many undergraduate research programs are designed with assessment-friendly outcomes as stated goals, a more…

  • Increasing Scientific Literacy About Global Climate Change Through a Laboratory-Based Feminist Science Course

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    The authors have developed and implemented a novel general education science course that examines scientific knowledge, laboratory experimentation, and science-related public policy through the lens of feminist science…

  • The Inquiry Matrix

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    One way to advance inquiry in the classroom is to establish a systematic strategy for reflecting on our practice and our students’ readiness to engage in increasingly complex scientific reasoning. The Matrix for…

  • Guest Editorial: Would you like to be a student in your classroom?

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    Why do some teachers experience successful teaching in the middle level year after year, while others consider an eighth-grade teaching assignment equivalent to a sentence of hard labor? Why is it that some teachers and…

  • Every Day Science Calendar: October 2006

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    This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.

  • A Workshop Approach: Using learning centers to teach early childhood science

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    The science workshop approach is a method of organizing learning centers in developmentally based primary programs. The approach centers on providing a series of meaningful experiences around core science concepts.…

  • Scintillating Stars

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    Often, a bright planet that is visible over the horizon will be mistaken for a star. Some believe they can tell the difference between a star and a planet because stars twinkle, or scintillate, and planets do not. In…

  • Visualizing Zonation Patterns

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    The study of zonation, the distribution of plants and animals into distinct spatial areas, is a great way to introduce students to basic ecological concepts. Students can conduct methodical, quantifying surveys of zones…

  • The Stratigraphic Sandwich

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    This article describes an approach in which students develop and apply definitions prior to their formal introduction to new vocabulary. The example given is an inquiry-based lesson on geologic principles.

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