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Promise or Peril: Nanotechnology and the Environment
Nanoscience research has made great strides in recent years in areas such as nanomaterials and drug delivery. This success has kindled hope for exciti...
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How do you get students to understand a number as small as one-billionth? Through a hands-on dilution activity using food coloring, students will lear...
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Advances in nanotechnology are due in part to the unique structure and properties of carbon nanotubes and buckyballs. These unusual structures are bei...
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Biological Nanomachines: Viruses
Although nanotechnology is a new and emerging field, nanoscale structures are not new. Small molecules such as water, large molecules such as proteins...
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What’s In Your Bag? Investigating the Unknown
In nanoscience, like all scientific endeavors, asking the right questions is a vital part of progress. Our ability to observe how things work at the n...
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Nanomagnets: Fun with Ferrofluid
Ferrofluid provides an easy opportunity to introduce students to the fascinating properties of the nanoscale. It is essentially a liquid magnet made o...
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Imagine you could build an object that is a billion times smaller than a meter. What would you build? An entire new field has emerged as a result of a...
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It’s a Small World After All: Nanofabric
Nanotechnology is producing a variety of new materials we use in our everyday lives. One such development is the latest stain-resistant fabric. This i...
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Becoming a Teacher Researcher: Giving Space, Finding Space
Christopher Horne is a teacher specialist for elementary science for Frederick County, Maryland, public schools and an adjunct professor in the educat...
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Teachers Supporting Teachers in Learning
Diantha Lay is principal of an elementary school in Montgomery County, Maryland. When she wrote this chapter, she was just starting a new position for...
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TEAM Connections: Four Teachers’ Journeys Into Action Research
Judy Fix, Norma Fletcher, Dianne Johnson, and Janet Siulc—a group of teachers in the Buffalo Public School District—wondered what they could do th...
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Learning About Motion: Fun for All
Deborah Roberts is a fifth-grade teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. At the time she wrote this chapter, she was a middle-school science teacher in a high-po...
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Reflections on Fostering Teacher Inquiries Into Science Learning and Teaching
Emily van Zee is an associate professor of science education at Oregon State University and co-organizer of Teacher Researcher Day at National Science...
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Reading, Writing, Comprehension, and Confidence—Achieved in Science Contexts
When Elizabeth Kline wrote this, she was a fifth-grade teacher in Prince George’s County, Maryland. A desire to integrate scientific concepts in a c...
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Fourth-Grade Scientists Investigate Electric Circuits
Trisha Kagey Boswell is a third-grade teacher at an elementary school in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she has taught for eight years. Her school...