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Watching the Pot to Improve Inquiry Skills
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The International Boiling Point Project is an online, collaborative project for students in grades 6–12 in which they investigate the impact of four factors (room temperature, elevation, volume of water and heating…
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Commentary: Leading Beyond the Classroom
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Science and science education have had many great leaders, some of whom may not have thought of themselves as leaders while engaged in their work. This holds true for many teachers, who think they do not have the time…
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Making Connections Through Conversation
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First graders explore the circle of life through observations of animals in their habitats.
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How to form a study group to examine the Next Generation Science Standards, second public draft.
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The project described here involved the design, implementation, and evaluation of an upper-level, undergraduate elective course for science majors. Specific course goals were to help students gain an appreciation of the…
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Message from the NSTA President: Imagine and Invent—Create a Great Future
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The time is right for an emphasis on imagination and innovativeness in science education, both in students and in teachers. Change now dominates our economy and culture, and can only be realized through imagination and…
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Tried and True: Cell organelle employment advertisements
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Are you looking for a creative way to teach the functions of cell organelles? If you answered yes, then organelle employment advertisements are just what you need. During this project, students must create an employment…
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A Flight Simulator Program Takes Off
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Aviation concepts, including forces acting on an airplane, navigation, correct aircraft terminology, and general aviation vocabulary, are often part of a comprehensive fifth-grade aviation curriculum. But in one school…
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A well-structured independent literature research project with a poster session was used to introduce students to peer-reviewed literature in a general chemistry course. Overall, students reported an enhanced…
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Preschool students learn science content naturally by using hands-on explorations of spiders and their webs.
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“No Child Left Behind,” or are they...? According to recent research, pregnant teenagers and young parents often do not receive the quality of education available to other students. Most schools do not have a separate…
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A Message from the NSTA President: Quality Science Teachers -- Essential to America's Future
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Our nation has begun to take science and the accomplishments of scientists in the United States for granted. The telephone, airplane, automobile, electric power, atomic fuel, vaccine, transplants, medicines--all of the…
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Commentary: Professional Development and Resources for Educators in Astrobiology
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In addition to catalyzing and promoting interdisciplinary research in astrobiology, the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) also seeks to train the next generation of astrobiologists. To accomplish this, NAI provides a…
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Examining Language To Capture Scientific Understandings: The Case of the Water Cycle
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As teachers of science, we need to keep in mind that thought and language are intricately related. Linguistic approximations, errors, and misses may be useful windows into our children’s developing thoughts and…
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The Impact of Science on Society
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There is one thing we can say about scientific education as it existed 100 years ago: Certainly as far as America is concerned, the scientific education of the 19th century—taken almost as a whole—did not produce great…
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