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I totally agree with the editor of TST this month, concerning the status of the earth sciences in many of our high schools. Many years ago when I was ...
By Mary Bigelow
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“Are you teaching today or are the students just doing a lab or taking a test?” I used to dread this question from a former principal when...
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Properties of objects and materials
Inquiry is not as dependent on equipment and technology as it is on the willingness of the teacher to model the process and to move from being a sage ...
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Talk about an interesting day in the age of electronic information! This afternoon in a listserv I belong to, I read about a report by the National Ac...
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Mathematics and science seem like natural partners when designing interdisciplinary lessons or units. This issue of Science Scope has some suggestions...
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This month’s Science Teacher is a collection of ideas from low-tech card sorts (a wonderful way to get students thinking) to high-tech investiga...
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It will soon be the time when many schools go into Science Fair mode, with reactions from students (and perhaps some teachers) that range from cheers ...
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One of my favorite benefits of being an NSTA member is being able to view all of the journals electronically, even though I must confess that I do lik...
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This month’s issue has a theme that is appealing to most middle school students – the human body....
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As part of a project I am working on, I was visiting the science classes of teachers who participated in a summer professional education project. One ...
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From cyberspace to SciLinks: website design
I’ve described a few components of the SciLinks rubric so far: the accuracy and appropriateness of the content, the credentials of the sites owner/a...
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The article Using Japanese Lesson Design to ANTicipate an Invasion on Maui caught my attention, not as much because of the topic of fire ants as an in...
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Bringing biology instruction to life
Here is an interesting coincidence. The other day, I was reading the Science Teacher article on “The Life and Work of John Snow,” with sug...
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In the local newspaper, an organization advertised its Haunted House event for Halloween. One of the chambers is the laboratory of a “mad scientist....
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Another Fall event – Mole Day
In a previous entry on fall activities, I forgot to include Mole Day, celebrated on October 23 (10/23) from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. The timing of this ...
By Mary Bigelow