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Science Shorts: Nothing But Blue Skies
Why is the sky blue? Why are sunsets orange and red? These are some of children’s favorite questions to ask, but answering them at a level appropria...
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Fats, Oils, and Colors of Nanoscale Materials
Phase changes and intermolecular forces are important physical science concepts but are not always easy to present in an active learning format. This ...
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Science Sampler: Mail time! Addressing student questions in science class
How can you encourage students to question and explore their day-to-day encounters with science and still get through the curriculum for the year? At ...
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That a relatively small piece of writing such as Albert Einstein's three-page paper of relativity could be so important certainly illustrates the sign...
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The Structures and Properties of Carbon
The four main forms of carbon—diamond, graphite, buckyballs, and CNTs—are an excellent vehicle for teaching fundamental principles of chemical bon...
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One third grade teacher reflects on her students living by the ocean and their frequent jaunts to the beaches where expansive slabs of granite jut out...
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Science 101: Is it possible to turn coal into diamonds?
How cool would it be to be Lois Lane? Anytime she wants a diamond, she just has Superman use his super strength to squeeze a lump of coal. But is this...
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Science Sampler: Rocket boys and girls
Teachers at a middle school located in West Virginia didn’t want their students to limit themselves to local jobs when faced with future career deci...
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Soil is all around us, in fact there is so much of it that we often don’t think of it as a valuable natural resource, and we might even take it for ...
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Commentary: Putting Nanotechnology Under the Microscope
Nanotechnology is all over the news: Particles that become translucent or change color according to size! Particles smaller than viruses in the shape ...
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Self-Assembly: How Nature Builds
Self-assembly or spontaneous assembly is a process in which materials build themselves without assistance (Goodsell 2000). Presented here is a simple ...
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Making <em> Learning </em> a Never-Ending Story
Initially, middle school students and their parents displayed mixed emotions when shown 10-meter-long science murals at the beginning of the school ye...
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Intrigued by the idea of offering creative ways to reinforce both fine-motor skills and early mathematics skills as well as being eager to work with y...