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  • Citizen Science: Fly Into Schoolyard Citizen Science With eBird

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    This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Engage students in science as you contribute authentic data to eBird by…

  • Disequilibrium: Edible Candles

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    This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Students must distinguish between observations and inferences. This month’s discrepant event will refresh your students’ knowledge about the…

  • Science for All: Accessibility at the Onset

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    This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. By beginning class with a task that the majority of students will be able to complete on their own, such as asking an open-ended question, you will foster…

  • Listserv Roundup: Four Essential Strategies for Differentiating Science Lessons

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    This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. In this month’s column, the author focuses on the general differentiation advice shared via the NSTA…

  • Teacher to Teacher: Instructional Scaffolds Can Support Students

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    This column provides practical advice from your peers. The author discusses two scaffolds that she uses to support student writing: writing frames and graphic organizers.

  • Scope on the Skies: The Historic Stars in Our Skies

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    This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the luminosity, or apparent brightness, of some stars as seen from Earth.

  • Materials Science and the Problem of Garbage

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    Where does all that stuff go?

  • Learning From the Fruit Fly

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    A card game for teaching Mendel’s laws, meiosis, and Punnett squares.

  • Settling the Score

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    Exploring the historic debate over atomic bonding.

  • The Microscopic World of Diatoms

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    Students collect stream water to study a biological indicator that can help detect pollution.

  • Editor’s Corner: Growing Mountains of Trash

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    The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.

  • Science 2.0: When Students Become Digital Citizens

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    This column shares web tools that support learning. This month, the authors discuss the Digital Citizen standard where “students(will) recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and…

  • Focus on Physics: The Moon Is Falling!

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    This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's column describes the sideways motion of tangential velocity, which keeps the Moon and all artificial Earth satellites falling around…

  • The Green Room: Losing Sight of Our Stars

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    This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses light pollution and the different activities to investigate this problem.

  • Health Wise: Too Many Teens Have High Cholesterol

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    This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses teens and cholesterol.

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