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Engaging General Biology Students With Learning Contracts
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Students in a general biology class used a learning contract where they selected chapter-relevant activities they could complete through several formats: oral, written, or artistic. The majority of students felt they…
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A piece of children’s literature can be a powerful tool for teaching and learning science; however, it takes more than reading about a topic to qualify as “doing science.” Inspired by the book, The Gift of the Tree, the…
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Realize Your Mentoring Success
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How successful will you be in guiding a new teacher’s professional development? While your success will be influenced by how you and your mentee conceptualize teaching, learning, and the nature of science, research…
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College Students’ Opinions of Engaging Approaches in a Physical Science Course
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Physical science courses have historically been taught from a variety of perspectives or emphases. In many cases, the instructor decides on the perspective and textbook for nonscience majors, so students rarely have a…
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Ask the Experts -- January 2006
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Have you ever wondered why lead is considered to be a cancerous metal? One of our "Ask the Experts" readers was also curious about this subject and posed this question to our Experts: "They say lead is a very cancerous…
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The Early Years: Send-Home Science
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue explores sending home materials for science activities parents can do with their children.
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Career of the Month: Environmental Advocate
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. In this month’s issue, Shereen Hughes is interviewed about her work as an environmental advocate.
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The Science Buddies program pairs a seventh-grade life science class with a second-or third-grade class in a yearlong partnership of science adventures. Over the course of the year these dual-grade learning groups work…
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Research and Teaching: Helping Students Succeed in Introductory Science Courses
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The author measured the reliability of introductory biology students’ claims regarding lecture attendance, help session attendance, and reading assignment compliance. In all areas, students’ reported behaviors were…
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During the semester, the author found that students became more and more comfortable with the use of "Post-it Notes”—they became a tool much as their pens and pencils were tools. Some students would make Post-it Note…
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Every Day Science: August 2008
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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The Benefits of Scientific Modeling
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When students are engaged in scientific modeling, they are able to notice patterns and develop and revise representations that become useful models to predict and explain—making their own scientific knowledge stronger,…
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Productive Questions: Tools for Supporting Constructivist Learning
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The six types of productive questions—attention-focusing, measuring and counting, comparison, action, problem-posing, and reasoning—enable teachers to create a bridge between activities and students. A teacher's own…
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Transporting Students Into Thin Air: Using Science to Enhance Reading
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The Into Thin Air unit, based on the book by Jon Krakauer, was designed as an interdisciplinary unit for a small group of academically gifted sixth-grade students. It included hands-on, minds-on activities that would…
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Science Sampler: Catapulting into technological design
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Unleash your students' interest in technological design by implementing this exciting, hands-on activity into your science curriculum. In this activity, students explore levers by designing and building a working…
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