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Thermal Paper Exposed: The Secret of “Smart Paper”
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This article discusses how, as part of a National Science Foundation-funded internship program, the authors translated smart papers into an exciting and informative activity for the middle school classroom. This…
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Scope on Safety: Blueprint for safety
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If your lab facilities are going to be replaced or renovated, you should insist that the science instructors be involved in the process from planning to construction. You know what you’ll need in a facility, and your…
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Learning Simple Machines Through Cross-Age Collaborations
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In this project, introductory college physics students (noneducation majors) were asked to teach simple machines to a class of second graders. This nontraditional activity proved to be a successful way to encourage…
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Safer Science: Tools for Schools Rules!
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In 1995, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the highly successful Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools (TfS) program. The TfS program is an in-the-trenches approach that empowers teachers and…
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All students, including English language learners (ELLs), benefit from a curriculum that emphasizes the teaching of concepts in depth and focuses on process and critical thinking skills. Often, simply using the inquiry-…
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Scope on the Skies: Tracking the messenger
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During April and May, the innermost planet, Mercury, will have its greatest apparition (morning or evening viewing opportunity) for the year as it graces the evening skies over the western horizon after sunset.…
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Introducing Evolution Using Online Activities in a Nonmajor Biology Course
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Effective virtual education requires activities that promote application of scientific thinking skills, elaboration of research questions, hypothesis proposal, experimental design, and result presentation in a…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Talking About Shadows
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue highlights shadow investigations that provide an ideal context for children to collect and analyze data used to recognize and explain…
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Health Wise: Better Grades Through Sleeping?
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This column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—along with classroom activities that help students make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses the importance of sleep.
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Armed with a few topical and organizational strategies, primary grade teachers can successfully introduce their young scientists to science notebooks. The following overview of notebook methods offers a menu of options…
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Teaching through Trade Books: It's Pumpkin Time!
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When one thinks of October, many possible ideas to explore through science and reading come to mind—fall weather, changing leaves, and perhaps that annual trip to the pumpkin patch to select the perfect pumpkin. This…
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The inertial balance is one device that can help students to quantify the quality of inertia—a body’s resistance to a change in movement—in more generally understood terms of mass. In this hands-on activity, students…
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On any night, the stars seen in the sky can be as close to Earth as a few light-years or as distant as a few thousand light-years. Distances this large are hard to comprehend. In this article, we explore how astronomers…
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Using Concept Maps in the Science Classroom
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Create an exciting learning environment and help monitor students’ understanding with the use of concept maps. Concept maps provide a unique graphical view of how students organize, connect, and synthesize information.…
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Everyday Engineering: What makes a better box?
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Every morning, many Americans start their day with a bowl of cereal. Some spend time while they eat breakfast reading the back of the cereal box, but few consider its size, shape, and construction, or realize that it…
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