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Beetlemice Multitudes!!! Power Law and Exponential Scaling
Scaling describes how a quantity changes over time or with the size of a system. It can also be defined as how a quantity changes in relation to any o...
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Oops, I Did It Again: Errors in Measurement
Understanding the precision and accuracy of measurements is a crucial skill that scientists must develop to do their work. All measurements involve so...
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Is a virus bigger than a bacterium? Is the distance from the Earth to the Moon greater than the diameter of the Earth? In this investigation, students...
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It’s Not All Relative: Relative Versus Absolute
Learning about the sizes of things and scale engages students in thinking about conceptual benchmarks for sizes. In this investigation, students learn...
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Time Flies When You’re Learning About Scale!
Not many students would forget to say “Dinosaurs!” if you mention the Jurassic period, yet the word scale only conjures up ideas of measuring obje...
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Billions of Us: Scale and Population
Population is increasingly important as both a scientific and a political subject. The world is getting more crowded. Providing students with the tool...
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When building a dollhouse or a model of a car or a cell, close attention to the details is crucial to making it look accurate and realistic. A consist...
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This story obviously is aimed at the technology standards. Two simple timing devices are mentioned with the suggestion that more are possible. These c...
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The two concepts at work here are conservation of matter and the question about many surfaces vs. fewer surfaces absorbing heat. You may wonder what t...
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Inquiry at the Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA)
The Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA) is a full-time, dual credit, early college program designed exclusively for Washington State Running Start (...
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Science Projects: Successful Inquires in Eighth-Grade Science
This chapter focuses on the mission of the science department of Hilo Intermediate School—to ensure that the Hawaii State Standards and Benchmarks a...
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Inquiry Is Elementary: Differing Approaches to Inquiry Within Two Elementary Schools
Scientific inquiry is practiced and celebrated at two elementary schools within a school district of 40,000 students, located within a first ring subu...
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Science as Inquiry at Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute
As a department, the science teachers at Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute share a common commitment to the ideals of teaching...
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Erasing Lecture-Laboratory Boundaries: An Inquiry-Based Course Design
The University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) is one of seven autonomous campuses within the University of Maine System. UMPI combines liberal arts a...
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Enhancing the Inquiry Experience: Authentic Research in the Classroom
Inquiry in science classrooms involves the ability to pose a question, explore phenomena relating to the question, acquire new understandings, communi...