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  • Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier: A "Climate Canary"?

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    Using atmospheric and oceanic processes and the poles to teach the climate system.

  • Editor's Corner: Chemistry Instruction in the Era of the NGSS

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

  • Science 2.0: Designing Your Course Like a Video Game

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    This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses gamification, which is the practice of applying game mechanics to nongame situations, and how it is being used as an instructional design…

  • The Green Room: Good Ozone, Bad Ozone

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    This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses the types of ozone.

  • The New Teacher's Toolbox: Is That the Teacher?

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    This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue talks about tips to use in the classroom when you are a young teacher.

  • Safer Science: Safety to the Wind

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    This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue talks about appropriate laboratory ventilation.

  • Career of the Month: An Interview With Aerosol Scientist Melissa Lunden

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    This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue talks about the career of an aerosol scientist.

  • Health Wise: Dietary Fats: Friend or Foe?

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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. In this month’s issue the author discusses dietary fats.

  • Assessing for Achievement

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    Formative assessments are woven throughout a series of lessons structured upon the 5E Instructional Model.

  • Scoring a Goal for Learning

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    Initiating formative assessment practices in kindergarten informs teaching and learning.

  • Crystal Clear Assessment

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    Techniques for rich, authentic asssessment are revealed through a polymer gel spheres project.

  • Simply Performance Assessment

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    A fourth-grade lesson on simple machines integrates performance assessment tasks.

  • ... And Action!

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    Using science skits to evaluate students' understanding of science concepts.

  • Seeing the Science

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    A rubric helps to examine written science observations of second-grade English language learners.

  • Editor's Note: Seamless Assessment

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    Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.

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