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Fall Colors, Temperature, and Day Length
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Along with the bright hues of orange, red, and yellow, the season of fall represents significant changes, such as day length and temperature. These changes provide excellent opportunities for students to use science…
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A microscope connected to a digital projector helps students make connections between the microscopic and macroscopic world.
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Explaining Four Earth Science Enigmas With a New Hypothesis
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Students learn group process skills and transferable ideas about how science works by researching and studying four enigmas.
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Tech Trek: Underwater web work
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Looking for ways to enhance your oceanography unit? "Dive" into the many online resources available to help you explore the mysteries of the deep. The following is a collection of sites appropriate for middle level…
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Using GLOBE's Plant Phenology to Monitor the Growing Season
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Has the growing season in North America increased by eight days? Is it still increasing? Middle-school students can help sleuth the answer with the Global Learning and Observations To Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)…
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Tech Trek: Integration and Presentation
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Successful science-fair participants often impress judges with professional-looking displays of their data. Understanding how to use presentation and spreadsheet software to create these displays is a very useful skill…
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Every Day Science Calendar: January 2006
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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Idea Bank: Adding Inquiry to Cookbook Labs
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank presents a new approach to add inquiry to two common biology labs: Environmental Effects on Catalase…
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Applying Age-Old Physics: Using ancient inventions to teach modern physics concepts
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Despite daily use of computers, cell phones, and sound systems, students are fascinated by the technology that our ancestors once used to survive. Ancient inventions are great tools for fostering understanding of…
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Elementary Science Study Groups
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Initially, the main purpose of the science study group was to make science teaching and learning more exciting and available. This goal has been accomplished. The continuing goal is to maintain the excitement—members…
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Creating torn paper biomes integrates science and visual art in a performance task that assesses students' knowledge of the characteristics of the biomes of the earth. Students who have difficulty communicating their…
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Supporting Right-Brained Thinking
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In his book, A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink champions the benefits of right-brained thinking: creativity, flexibility, empathy, and meaning. He stresses the need to not only be logical, but also aware of emotion; to not…
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This article offers an opportunity to nurture the lifelong learner deep inside with a summer reading list that will allow you to renew, reflect, and refresh. NSTA Recommends reviewers share what they're reading this…
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Methods and Strategies: I Wonder...
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses how "I Wonder" boards serve as a springboard for scientific investigations.
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The Isle of Navitas: Planning for Energy Use With Web GIS
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Engage in authentic scientific practices using geospatial technologies to plot an island's energy resources.
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