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Editor's Corner: Liquid Gold

As prices soar to over $3 a gallon, “it” has become a hotly contested political issue. Wars and other international conflicts have erupted over ac...

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A Course in Nanotechnology for Nonscience Majors

Chemistry is a good entry to many topics in nanotechnology. This paper describes a non-science majors' course in which chemical concepts provide the ...

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Be A Citizen Scientist! Celebrate Earth Science Week 2006

During Earth Science Week (October 8-14, 2006), millions of citizen scientists world-wide sampled groundwater, monitored weather, toured quarries, exp...

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Investigating Students' Ideas About Plate Tectonics

As part of a project designed to develop, among other tools, an assessment for measuring middle school understanding in plate tectonics, researches fr...

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Favorite Demonstration: Forensic Analysis Demonstration via Hawaii Five-O

The interdisciplinary nature of a forensics-based demonstration encourages science majors to move beyond their own narrow fields of study. The demons...

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A Message from the NSTA President: Quality Science Teachers -- Essential to America's Future

Our nation has begun to take science and the accomplishments of scientists in the United States for granted. The telephone, airplane, automobile, ele...

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Science 101: Why does air expand when you heat it, and why does hot air rise?

The short answer to the questions in the title are that air doesn't necessarily expand when you heat it, and hot air doesn't always rise. These two c...

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Society for College Science Teachers: iPods -- Informative or Invasive?

The ubiquitous devices, known as iPods, are being used in a variety of teacher-centered ways. In some classes, students are using them to record inte...

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There's More to Teaching Science

There's more to teaching science than stuffing kids with facts. They have to learn to question, to observe, and to explore. Kids need to think like ...

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Every Day Science Calendar: September 2006

This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer. ...

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Score One for Alternative Assessment

"What conventional testing hides is the enormous misunderstanding that many students have about things the generic standardized tests say they 'know'....

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A "Nature of Science" Discussion: Connecting Mathematics and Science

Nonscience majors often come into science courses with misconceptions about the nature of science. As part of an integrative mathematics and science ...

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Ask the Experts -- September 2006

In this month's "Ask the Experts" column, the Experts respond to the following thought-provoking questions: "If water boils at 100°C, how can a glass...

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Unlocking Reading Comprehension with Key Science Inquiry Skills

As secondary science teachers, we must remember that scientific literacy cannot be attained without fundamental literacy--the ability to read and comp...

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Point of View: A Gentle Reminder that a Hypothesis is Never Proven Correct, nor is a Theory Ever Proven to Be True

Teachers have created a huge misconception for students and non-scientists who read and use textbooks. They have come to believe that science is abso...