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The Friendship Detector gives students a chance to design, test, and build a complex circuit with multiple switches and battery-powered lights or buzzers. The process involves important engineering themes and core…
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When an ethical issue is still being debated publically, it is inappropriate for schools to advocate a particular position—either explicitly or implicitly. Nevertheless, we can and should prepare students to integrate…
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Editor’s Corner: New Tools for Learning
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Technology has the potential to transform science education through online social network collaboration, satellite navigation and imaging, field and laboratory digital probeware, wikis and blogs, sophisticated online…
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In a unique school—university partnership, methods students collaborated with fifth graders to use the engineering design process to build their problem-solving skills. By placing the problem in the context of a client…
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Preventing chemical spills in the laboratory is critical, but teachers also need to know what to do if a spill does occur. This article outlines strategies to help with hazardous chemical spills in lab facilities and on…
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Teaching Critical-Thinking Skills Using Course Content Material: A Reversal of Roles
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The strategy of getting students to understand science content using critical thinking has been widely used by instructors for decades. The methodology presented here was used to teach and improve critical-thinking…
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Science Sampler: The Mathematics/Science Housing program
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The National Middle School Association (1999) has identified transition programs, interdisciplinary teaming, and varied instruction as three of the five fundamental practices among exemplary middle schools. Elliott…
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Recognizing Excellence: STEM Day in the Park
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This column features profiles of award-winning science programs and teachers. This month’s issue describes a weekend event that introduces families to science concepts in an outdoor setting.
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The Prepared Practitioner: Understanding Heat and Temperature
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Since this issue of The Science Teacher has a polar theme, the author thought this would be a particularly appropriate time to examine research about students’ preconceived ideas about heat—or the lack thereof. Heat and…
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Career of the Month: Historical Archaeologist
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Historical archaeologists such as Mark Warner investigate through excavations and written records of how people lived in the recent past. This thrilling career involves the excavation of artifacts, in combination with…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Differentiated instruction to the rescue!
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Differentiated Instruction (DI) is an ongoing practice: teachers intentionally and systematically discover and plan lessons around the strengths, needs, prior knowledge, and attitudes of their students. Teachers must…
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Place-Based Investigations and Authentic Inquiry
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In place-based inquiry, the context of an investigation involves a place about which students already have some interest, curiosity, or knowledge. Their interest makes the application of scientific investigation and…
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Teaching Science to ELLs, Part II
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Despite the burgeoning numbers of English language learners (ELLs) in our schools, many science teachers have little training in meeting their specialized needs. By the year 2010, it is estimated that 40% of K–12…
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Malformed anurans (frogs and toads) are excellent bio-indicators—living organisms sensitive to environmental changes that are used to judge the quality of a certain habitat. Students investigate these phenomena online…
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The first year in the classroom is probably the most challenging of a science teacher’s career. While many science and education classes are offered in college, they do not always teach the basics of getting started.…
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