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Editor's Roundtable: Classroom benefit of being bionic!

The National Science Education Standards indicate that “technology as design is included in the Standards as parallel to science as inquiry.” A...

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Science Shorts: Seeing is Believing

Many students enjoy the reading about new worlds or imaginary places. The world of microscopy can generate the same kind of excitement and help child...

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Teacher’s Toolkit: Helping middle school students with learning disabilities pass the federally mandated science tests—Science instruction, study skills, and test-taking strategies

Since the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2002, and the amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 2004, the majority ...

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Research and Teaching: Evaluating the Use of Inquiry-Based Activities: Do Students and Teacher Behaviors Really Change?

Performing inquiry should enhance the intellectual development of students on numerous levels. We evaluate whether inquiry-based activities elicit inq...

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Artist as Chemist

All artists are chemists. Artists understand and study the properties of specific materials and find ways to explore these properties to express views...

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Research Collaboration With Learning-Disabled Students: Strategies for Succesful Student-Faculty Partnerships

The process of a successful undergraduate student-faculty research collaboration involving a student with documented learning disabilities is detailed...

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Research and Teaching: Two-Dimensional, Implicit Confidence Tests as a Tool for Recognizing Student Misconceptions

The misconceptions that students bring with them, or that arise during instruction, are a critical barrier to learning. Implicit-confidence tests, a s...

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The CSI Effect: Changing The Face of Science

Until recently, the vast majority of female student images of scientists were versions of white males working alone in laboratory settings (Barman et ...

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Developing Strategic Readers

As elementary students progress from learning to read toward reading to learn, it is vital that they become strategic readers. A strategic reader is ...