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In this article, a comparison of student learning outcomes is made in sophomore-level physical science classes using a “traditional” pedagogical approach versus a “modern” approach. Specifically, when students were…
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A high school hockey team is playing the last of three games in one day. The game gets rough, and the star player is slammed against the boards. Injured, he is escorted off the ice. This case follows his health as it…
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Laboratory Based Case Studies: Closer to the Real World
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Case-based laboratories offer students the chance to approximate real science. Based on interesting stories that pose problems requiring experimental solutions, they avoid the cookbook approach characteristic of…
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Idea Bank: Illustrating a Neuron's Action Potential With the "Wave"
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank discusses using an activity during a unit on the nervous system to help students grasp the concept of an…
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Science Sampler: Using the Pokemon alphabet to teach classification and phylogeny
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Did you ever think you'd see the day when Pokemon would make an appearance in the classroom, and actually be allowed to stay? The activity described here teaches classification, phylogeny, and dichotomy using a set of…
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Learning Logs: Writing to Learn, Reading to Assess
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Good inquiry activities help students hone their inquiry abilities and teach them about the nature of science. Inquiry is also a way to teach science content, and teachers need to know if this instruction is helping…
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The New Teacher’s Toolbox: When Silence Is Not Golden
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Silences can be quite uncomfortable, and in front of a classroom of students, 10 seconds can feel like an eternity. Class participation is tricky because it depends on several complicated dynamics. Ideally, many…
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Exploring the Science Framework
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Engaging learners in scientific practices related to obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.
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In this “electrifying encounter,” fifth-grade students teamed up with elementary education students for a celebration of science and technology learning. A problem-solving-through-technology approach was used to give…
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Teachers who have attempted classroom discussions have experienced a number of scenarios and still long for the perfect constructivist discussion—one in which each student is engaged, the class directs the course of the…
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Focusing Labs on the Nature of Science
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After learning about the scientific method, students are often left with mistaken impressions about how scientists work. This article seeks to give students a better understanding of the nature of science through…
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Many of our nation’s health concerns affect our students in a personal way. For example, there are over 750,000 new cases of diabetes mellitus every year; chances are that some of your students have family members with…
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Science Shorts: Building Bridges
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London Bridge is falling down, falling down...Can you finish the song? Although there are various stories that suggest the meaning of this famous nursery rhyme, the London Bridge, which spans the River Thames, did…
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This design challenge required students to design, build, test, and race fuel-cell cars. As part of the Fuel-Cell Car Challenge, student cars had to drive up an inclined plane with increasingly steep angles and compete…
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Science on the Web: Exploring Hurricane Data
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For students to be scientifically literate, it is vital for them to establish connections between science in the classroom and in the world outside. In this guided online investigation, students work in groups to…
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