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This article suggests how to organize a research unit and to plan effective deadlines.
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Focusing on Function: Thinking Below the Surface of Complex Natural Systems
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Structure-Behavior-Function (SBF) thinking considers the different levels of a system in terms of structures, behaviors, and functions, and how these are interconnected (Goel et al. 1996). This article presents an…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Kitchen Chemistry
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The kitchen is a wondrous place for children to make observations and explore the basics of chemistry. Seize the opportunity and help students build process skills while cooking or baking. Almost everything we eat and…
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A Virtual Tour of Plate Tectonics
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This article describes how teachers can use Google Earth to support inquiry instruction in both general and Earth science classrooms.
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Teaching Expository Text Structures
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Many students enter high school unskilled in the art of reading to learn from science textbooks. Even students who can read full-length novels often find science books difficult to read because students have relatively…
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Physics Careers Web Site: Expanding College Women’s Perceptions of Physicists’ Lives and Work
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Twenty college women used a Physics Careers Web site that aligned profiles of the college’s physics alumnae with the curriculum of introductory physics during an experimental version of the course. Twenty-one college…
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Students, faculty, and advisers must have ready access to current, accurate, and useable information about programs and curricula (Commission for Undergraduate Education 1995). College and university publications (e.g…
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The Fish Kill Mystery: Using Case Studies in the Middle School Classroom
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Case studies are an excellent method for engaging middle school students in the current work of scientists. Students learn to think like scientists as they decide how to investigate the dilemma presented in the case…
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Online Concept Maps: Enhancing collaborative learning by using technology with concept maps
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In the early 1990s, the University of West Florida and IBM Latin America investigated establishing telecommunication links among schools. This arrangement—Project Quorum—included public and private schools throughout…
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Science in the Toilet: The Flush of Learning
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Of the many possible technologies available to highlight the uses of science in everyday activities, few are more ubiquitous or more humble than the toilet. However, this much-used and much-overlooked appliance…
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Science Sampler: SSSNOW Project—Helping make science cool for students
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In the atmosphere or on the ground, snow provides students with unique opportunities to discover winter weather patterns. Traditionally, when students study weather, it is limited to the collection of data one would see…
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The Impact of Science Fiction Films on Student Interest in Science
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Science fiction films were used in required and elective nonmajor science courses as a pedagogical tool to motivate student interest in science and to reinforce critical thinking about scientific concepts. Students…
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Editor’s Note: Record Keeping in Science
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Records show others what data you have collected and under what conditions. Without records, patterns escape notice. Records also provide accountability and allow someone else to replicate or analyze your methods.…
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Project SunSHINE: A Student-Based Research Program
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This successful middle school program has students use technology to conduct their own weather investigations. Students design a research question focusing on ultraviolet levels, then collect data on local weather…
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The Green Room: What's in Your Trash?
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Each year, Americans generate 250 million tons of waste, recycle or compost about 33% of it, and dispose of most of the rest in landfills (EPA 2009). Though recycling has increased in the United States since 1980, waste…
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