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Teacher's Toolkit: No Child Left Behind -- What does this mean to middle school science teachers?

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 is the historic education reform effort that President Bush proposed his first week in office, which Congr...

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Editor’s Corner: Problem-Based Learning

Problem-based learning (PBL) is finding a place in more and more secondary school science programs as teachers discover its power to engage students a...

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Science Sampler: The science of Star Wars -- Integrating technology and the Benchmarks for Science Literacy

Star Wars: The name alone implies action, adventure, the vastness of space, alien creatures, and of course, who can forget light sabers? Since the ...

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Editor's Corner: Digital Frontiers

In 1960, JFK's rallying cry was "We stand at the edge of a New Frontier--the frontier of unfulfilled hopes and dreams." Our newest frontier is a digit...

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Hot Off the Press

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a peer-reviewed environmental health research journal (published by the National Institute of Environmental ...

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Shampoo, Soy Sauce, and the Prince's Pendant: Density for Middle-Level Students

This article describes a series of activities that are designed to clear up common student misconceptions regarding the difficult concepts of mass and...

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Energy Bowlerama

A bowling alley isn’t just a hangout where adolescents eat pizza, drink soda, and socialize with their friends. It can be transformed into a giant p...

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Teaching With Jazz: Using Multiple Cases to Teach Introductory Biology

Case studies challenge students to think, to process ideas at a higher and more complex cognitive level, and to experience science as a process rather...

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Editor's Roundtable: Do state standardized science tests bring out the Chicken Little in us?

Recently, discussions of state standardized science tests have been spreading anxiety and dread in science department meetings and teacher lounges acr...

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Sinking & Floating: A Graphical Representation of the Concept of Density

Density is a derived quantity that can be confusing for middle school students. Try using a graphical depiction of mass and volume to guide students i...

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Science Shorts: Maximum Capacity

Many adults are more skilled in estimating “how long” and “how far” than in estimating other ways to measure—possibly because of the many in...

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Kermit to Kermette? Does the Herbicide Atrazine Feminize Male Frogs?

This interrupted case study, developed for an honors seminar and a nonmajors chemistry course, is based on data taken from a series of published resea...

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Sense of Wonder Science

Kids who do hands-on science are eager to talk about, write about, and read about their experiences. Those of us who have tried it know that this i...