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An aquarium, land trust, and fifth-grade class collaborate in an ongoing, multidisciplinary project combining fieldwork and research. Students create and observe eastern bluebird habitats, keeping detailed journals. A…
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Science as a Moving Experience for All Learners
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Students with disabilities (SWDs), students at risk, and even honors students can have a hard time relating to traditional science instruction and often disengage. However, research has shown that when science teachers…
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Through a sequence of three related learning cycles--exploring seeds, germinating seeds and monitoring plant experiments--third-grade students answer answer these and other questions about plant growth and discover that…
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The Biology Department at James Madison University assesses scientific and quantitative reasoning skills in STEM majors in a content-independent manner by using a multiple-choice exam called the Natural World-9. The…
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Safer Science: Adopting STEM Safely
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses implementing STEM practices in the classroom with safety in mind.
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Shedding Light on Engineering Design
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Scientific inquiry leads to an engineering challenge and both are illuminated. The authors share their instructional approach and demonstrate how teachers can take small steps toward effectively incorporating…
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Commentary: Partnerships—Promoting Excellence and Equity in Science
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An opinion piece about how to succeed in promoting excellence and equity in science. We must work with other organizations and agencies to provide high-quality professional development experiences for all science…
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Scope on the Skies: A Planetpalooza
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s column discusses planet viewing and space flights.
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This article describes a program in which middle-school girls are paired with women undergraduate science majors to carry out hands-on laboratory experiments that relate everyday life. The goal of this science mentoring…
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This university-sponsored educational family event inspired teacher candidates, students, and parents by demonstrating numerous scientific activities, showing how opportunities for science learning go “beyond homework…
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Career of the Month: Visualization Scientist
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. In this month’s issue Carter Emmart describes what it is like to be a visualization scientist.
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A study was conducted to promote higher order cognitive skills (HOCS) in a chemistry class using the GOAL (Gather, Organize, Analyze, and Learn) method. Students were assigned four qualitative problems specifically…
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Self-Assembly: How Nature Builds
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Self-assembly or spontaneous assembly is a process in which materials build themselves without assistance (Goodsell 2000). Presented here is a simple in-class exercise that underlines the basic principles of self-…
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Science Sampler: A five-step approach to planning for technology in new science spaces
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Cutting-edge technology such as interactive whiteboards, PDAs, and BlackBerry-enabled cell phones are becoming more common in the classroom, but rapid technological advances such as these present a challenge to those…
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The Gigantic Titanic Egg Disaster
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This activity features an iceberg-disaster simulation called the "Gigantic Titanic Egg Disaster." Students enjoy using their own problem-solving skills and creativity to prevent a Titanic disaster.
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