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  • Science For All

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    This issue of The Science Teacher marks our 24th consecutive annual issue devoted to the theme, “Science for All.” Each year this special issue presents ideas and teaching strategies for helping all learners find…

  • Graphic Literacy

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  • Exit Tickets

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    Understanding students, adapting instruction, and addressing equity

  • Investigating Urban Trees

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    Mobile geospatial technologies enable high school students to engage in authentic scientific data collection and analysis that promote spatial-thinking and reasoning skills, as well as problem-solving in a school’s…

  • The Perfect Match

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    A lesson that focuses on the intricate co-evolution of flowers with their pollinators is one way to help students learn the delicate balance in nature and help ensure that our actions do not upset this balance. In this…

  • Genetics for All

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    This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and…

  • A Web of Ideas

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    Fostering scientific discourse with spider web discussions

  • Refraction

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    Exploring light as it moves from one medium to another with the intriguing result of different speeds—the bending of light we call refraction.

  • Ecologist

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    Ecologists are biologists who study entire ecosystems and the interactions among their living and non-living components. Ecology can be applied in areas such as conservation biology, natural resource management, and…

  • Science for All—19th Century "Edutainment"

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    In 19th-century America, one popular way people obtained new scientific information was through traveling lectures and science demonstrations, sometimes held in large halls called “lyceums.” Before the advent of radio…

  • Cultivating Curiosity About Creatures

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  • The Early Years: Create a Kit

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    This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue describes how teachers can build their own kits.

  • Science Strategies Through Poetry

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  • Animatronic Lions, and Tigers, and Bears Oh! My!

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    This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering. This issue shares information about computational thinking and 3D printing.

  • Making Critical Thinking Visible for Student Analysis and Reflection

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    Practice critical-thinking skills with this phenomena-centered dinosaur bone activity.

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