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Science Shorts: Seeing Color

Colors can open the door to an invisible world of electromagnetism, even when children can barely imagine things they cannot see. This article looks ...

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Habits of Mind for the Science Laboratory

Laboratory experience should be an integral part of any high school science program, especially laboratory activities designed so that students gather...

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Methods and Strategies: Why Demonstrations Matter

As a teacher, it is important to build lessons around concepts and utilize demonstrations as an integral part of concept development in science. Demon...

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Scope on the Skies: Planets in motion

September is a great month to watch Venus, Jupiter, and Mars in action. These planets will be visible as they move across the sky, and can be viewed ...

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Johnny Appleseed Comes to Class

Elementary life science methods professors found that their students often misunderstood the connection between flowers and fruits. Johnny Appleseed ...

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Teaching Problem-Solving Skills without Sacrificing Course Content: Marrying Traditional Lecture and Active Learning in an Organic Chemistry Class

Promoting problem-solving skills is a challenge faced by all science instructors. Teaching students to integrate information without sacrificing conte...

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Bridging the Two Cultures: A Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching and Learning Science in a Societal Context

Twentieth-century novelist and physicist C.P. Snow famously stated that solving the world’s complex problems requires collaboration between humanist...

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The Early Years: What Can Young Children Do as Scientists?

Children come to our classrooms with varying amounts of experience in exploring the natural world and participating in scientific inquiry. The school...

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Creating Case Study Presentations: A Survey of Senior Seminar Students

Senior seminar students were surveyed on their opinions of a course that required them to create and present original formal case studies; this result...

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Scope on Safety: Plant the seeds of knowledge

Why use plants in your science laboratory? First of all, they are an excellent way to implement hands-on, inquiry-based science at the middle school l...

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Science Sampler: The clone factory

Have humans been cloned? Is it possible? Immediate interest is sparked when students are asked these questions. In this activity, students reenact the...

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Renew, Reflect, and Refresh

This article offers an opportunity to nurture the lifelong learner deep inside with a summer reading list that will allow you to renew, reflect, and r...

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Bitten by the Science "Bug"

Who would have thought that a primary level science camp would spark exciting science programs for the more than 1,000 elementary students in one scho...

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Tech Trek: Testing the pH of soft drinks

Students will ooze with enthusiam as they explore acids and bases in soft drinks. To obtain a numerical value for pH, students can use a probe connect...

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Take the Eco-Challenge

This article offers instructions on developing a board game centered on environmental stewardship and its science-technology-society implications. The...