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Wetland ecology is a complex subject that draws from several scientific disciplines. While classroom lectures are necessary to teach the vast body of scientific data, there is no substitute for field and laboratory…
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Self-assessment is a win-win evaluation system. Evaluees, not the department or university, control the process by selecting the evaluation criteria. Self-assessment also eliminates the uncomfortable and burdensome task…
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Tech Trek: Personal digital assistants
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The personal digital assistant (PDA) is rapidly becoming an essential classroom tool. This article provides an overview of some of the science related programs available to classroom teachers.
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The Prepared Practitioner: Why Theories <em>Never</em> Become Laws
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One of teaching’s challenges comes when the teacher communicates clearly and students appear to understand—but instead students ascribe different meanings to the words than intended by the teacher. This happens often…
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Landscape Architect Brandon DeRosa
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From planning the layout of a zoo to recreating wetlands impacted by a development project, landscape architects use a blend of science and art to design outdoor spaces. As a consultant for the restoration of natural…
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This article discusses instruments given to undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory biology course for nonmajors. These instruments assessed attitudes toward biology and mathematics and various motivational…
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One tool for enhancing students’ work with data in the science classroom is the measure line. As a coteacher and curriculum developer for The Inquiry Project, the author has seen how measure lines—a number line in which…
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Teacher's Toolkit: Choice: The Dragon Slayer of Student Complacency
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This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue discusses how middle level science teachers can differentiate an inquiry-based investigation by modifying the level…
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Science Sampler: Science interactive notebooks in the classroom
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When students make observations and explain them in writing, they clarify and organize their thoughts and ideas. Keeping science interactive notebooks is a technique for increasing student understanding and organizing…
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Phytochemistry and Culture: Connecting Science to Students' Experiences
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This article focuses on science content that will draw from the lived experiences of culturally diverse students and foster an excitement about the true nature of science. Students begin to participate and bring…
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If students are to achieve the higher level of learning that occurs as a result of interactive classroom strategies and discussions, teachers must accept the responsibility of helping students develop their ability to…
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Science Shorts: How Many Ways Are There to Move?
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This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. In this month’s issue the author uses the 5E learning cycle with third- and fourth-grade students to teach that a force is a push…
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Welcome the Madagascar hissing cockroach into your classroom--they are not your average pest! This article describes the basic biology of this relatively tame creature, and how to set up and care for a classroom colony…
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Scope on Safety: Plant the seeds of safety
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Spring is in the air and many science classes take advantage of the good weather by conducting outdoor labs and taking field trips. Before venturing into the great outdoors with your class, review these plant safety…
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Commentary: Those Were The Days
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An opinion piece about reflecting back to when you were a child and sharing some science-related experiences in the classroom.
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