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Kids bring a wealth of ideas and experiences into the classroom. When we create opportunities for students to share ideas, we can develop a community of learners where every voice is valued and every voice helps build…
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Science 101: What causes tides?
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Tides exhibit predictable cycles on daily, monthly, and yearly scales. The magnitude of the tides is dependent on the position of the Earth and Moon in relation to the Sun, but is also influenced by other factors. This…
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Editor's Corner: Kool Konversions
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The Science Teacher’s editor introduces a wonderful teaching tool she found at the grocery store—Kool-Aid packages.
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Paper Towers: Building students' understandings of technological design
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“What do you think the National Science Education Standards are referring to when they talk about science and technology?" The authors posed this question to a group of undergraduate education majors during a science…
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In this article the authors examine the nature of the instructional tools, strategies, and assessments they developed to convert a traditional senior-level biology course into a writing-intensive, capstone biology…
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Springing Into Inquiry: Using Student Ideas to Investigate Seasons
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Explore student misconceptions to get behind the true reason for the seasons.
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The Early Years: The Sun's Energy
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Understanding the connection between the Sun’s energy and sustaining life is difficult for preschoolers, but learning about these concepts through both long and short-term activities captures children’s short attention…
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Research and Teaching: Expectations and Difficulties of First-Year Biology Students
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In a study done at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, the author tracked 410 students who majored in biological sciences. He focused on different variables, such as students’ preferred instructional methods and learning…
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Research and Teaching: Factors Affecting Participation in Traditional and Inquiry-Based Laboratories
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The authors studied participation, achievement, and attitude in cookbook and inquiry-based, introductory biology laboratories through observations, interviews, and attitude/knowledge surveys. A positive relationship,…
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Solar Paths: An International and Integrated Look at the Sun and Seasons
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Some of the most difficult concepts for students to understand in Earth science are the ideas and explanations related to the Sun and seasons. The daily rotation of the Earth causes day and night, and the differences of…
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Building a Scientist-Science Educator Collaboration: Establishing the Inquiry Institute
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This article describes the development of the Inquiry Institute, a collaboration of scientists from a science department and science educators from a school of education. The history of the institute and the benefits to…
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Scope on the Skies: In the Middle
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. In this month’s issue the author discusses the interstellar medium.
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This set of lessons is designed to be carried out in all of the subject-area classes. Science lessons are expanded and taught in social studies, math, and language arts classes. This highlights the far-reaching impact…
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In the Footsteps of Archimedes: Archimedes' fabled experiment leads to discoveries about density
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In this article, an activity is created where students find the mass of a sample of copper with the stipulation that they can use anything in the lab other than a balance. Students are given paper cups of copper shot…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Science Measures Up
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Can you measure a dog’s tail in dog biscuits? Can you measure a desk without a ruler? Which is better: measuring a room in paces or meters? Which system of measurement do scientists use? This month’s column explores…
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