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Video analysis is a powerful tool to help physics students understand motion and other phenomena. For example, in this video by Dale Basler (physics teacher and co-host of Lab Out Loud), students can analyze the speed and position time graph of the ...
By Eric Brunsell
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In my early childhood experiences in a small creek below our house where neighborhood children waded and built dams, I learned many science and engineering concepts — the pushing force of moving water, its erosion of the sandbank, annual floodi...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I’ve never felt inferior because I use a calculator, nor when I supplement my travel memory with a digital camera. Or even when I ignore the myriad of squiggly red lines underlining the words as I type this. My GPS guides me. My calendar beeps when...
By Martin Horejsi
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Whenever we talk about preparing kids for the future, we usually include collaboration and teamwork as a valuable skill. Our students also need to realize that science is not conducted by individuals in isolation. Successful scientists and engineers...
By Eric Brunsell
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Hey Watson! My dog is smarter than your phone.
It’s amazing how we put such faith into a computer where we risk national-make that global scrutiny as it preforms tasks autonomously that carry immense scientific and philosophical weight. Let’s listen in for a moment… [Watson] I’ll take...
By Martin Horejsi
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“She’s afraid that if she leaves, she’ll become the life of the party.” —Groucho Marx...
By Eric Brunsell
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Chemistry Now, weeks 5 & 6: hamburgers and chocolate
Pleasant surprise or horrible mutation? Cheeseburger cupcakes....
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The other night, I could hear my daughter in her room talking; well more like explaining what sounded like schoolwork. Rather than opening the door, I assumed she was recording her voice on her iPod, something she had done for years. This was underst...
By Martin Horejsi
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Participation "rubric"?
At our next department meeting we’re going to discuss the idea of using a rubric to evaluate students’ class participation. In many of my college classes, participation was a factor in the final grade. I’m wondering about using this mea...
By Mary Bigelow
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This winter has had more than “teachable moments”—it’s been a teachable season (at least on those days when school was in session). No matter what winter looks like in your neck of the woods, it’s an interesting time for sci...
By Mary Bigelow
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Once again, a late evening was spent on earth science worksheets. This time, however, it was not memorizing terms that presented the challenge, but rather something that caused great consternation in science in general leading up to a discovery that ...
By Martin Horejsi
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Chemistry Now, week 4: chemical bonds
What makes nutmeg and cloves smell like Christmas, while polyurethane-based adhesive smells like, well, glue?...
By admin
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Join NSTA and find an early childhood science community
Dear Early Childhood Teacher (of science and everything else) and teacher educators: We invite you to join NSTA! The National Science Teachers Association has lowered new membership dues to $65 for a limited time only, until February 15th, 2011. So...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Using data to get the big picture
I’m a new teacher at a new school. I’m applying for a spot on the principal’s cabinet. One of the questions he’s asking is “What data should we review when we are planning and checking in on existing plans?” I can ...
By Mary Bigelow