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Mom Always Liked You Best: Examining the Hypothesis of Parental Favoritism

In this interrupted case study, based on a journal article on the parenting behavior of American coots, students are given information and data from w...

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Science Sampler: Jumping to the right conclusions, inferences, and predictions

Writing meaningful conclusions, drawing accurate inferences, and making relevant predictions are essential skills that many adolescents lack. The diff...

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Commentary: Needing a New Approach to Science Labs

A recent report conducted by a National Research Council (NRC) committee found that science labs have the potential to help students master science su...

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Idea Bank: A Big Bang Lab

The authors of "How Far are the Stars," featured in the February issue of The Science Teacher, showed how the measurement of parallax permits scientis...

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A Can of Bull? Do Energy Drinks Really Provide a Source of Energy?

This case study involves the biochemical analysis of the components of commonly available energy drinks, which many students purchase at fairly high p...

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Simplifying Inquiry Instruction

Inquiry instruction is a hallmark of the current science education reform efforts. However, defining inquiry and assessing how much inquiry is support...

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Tried and True: The living periodic table

To help make the abstract world of chemistry more concrete to your middle-school students, have them create a living periodic table that can be displa...

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Laboratory Instruction in the Service of Science Teaching and Learning

The Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the National Science Education Standards strongly suggest that students should be engaged in hands-on learning...

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A Strange Fish Indeed: The "Discovery" of a Living Fossil

Through a series of fictionalized diary entries, this case recounts the “discovery” in South Africa in 1938 of a fish believed to be extinct for o...

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Using an Artificial Rock Outcrop to Teach Geology

The lack of rock outcrops is a national problem that impacts how students learn geology all over the United States. To compensate for this problem, tr...

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Editorial: The Interrupted Case Method

There are many ways to tell a tale. This issue of the journal demonstrates that point as it devotes itself once again entirely to case studies. One ...

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Editor's Note (October 2005)

Why should teachers emphasize the nature of science? Not only does it help students to think and solve problems like scientists, but students will le...

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Tech Trek: In flight, online

The concept of flight for human beings has always been closely tied to imagination. To fly like a bird requires a mind that also soars. Therefore, goo...

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Technology in the Lab: Part Two

Probeware is increasingly being implemented in science classrooms because it is less expensive than it used to be and improvements in hardware and sof...

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Geoscientists Explore the Earth

Visit the American Geological Institute (AGI) Earth Science Week website to learn about how you can provide your students with inquiry-based learning ...