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Hot Spot at Yellowstone

These exciting activities will capture your student's attention as they embark on a virtual field trip to Yellow Stone National Park via websites desi...

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Scope on Safety: Chemicals from cradle to grave

School districts are not immuned to fines assessed by the Environmental Protection Agency or of becoming vicitims of unscrupulous business practices. ...

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Planting the Spirit of Inquiry

After a three-week unit on living things, second-grade students were asked what else they wanted to learn about plants. Their questions were a prelud...

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Girls in Science

The San Diego Zoo partnered with a middle school in order to provide local inner-city, low-income girls the opportunity to perform active science and ...

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Scope on the skies: You're blocking my view

Don't try to catch your shadow during April! The arrangement of the Earth, Moon, and Sun will be such that there will be an eclipse of the Sun at new ...

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Good, Messy, Frothing Fun

Teach your students the dangers of unsafe lab behavior without scaring them or boring them through this lab safety module.This investigative case is p...

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Methods and Strategies: Using Models Effectively

Models are crucial to science teaching and learning, yet they can create unforeseen and overlooked challenges for students and teachers. This article...

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Tracking Through the Tulips

"Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was the theme song for kindergarten through second-grade students at Ashland City Primary in Ashland, Tennessee who partic...

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Guest Editorial: You may be the only scientist your students will ever know

All teachers know that young students have a remarkable ability to ponder questons and put them in a context that is understandable to them. Unfortun...

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Guest Editorial: You may be the only scientist your students will ever know

Unfortunately, in too many classrooms nationwide, thousands of students don't get the opportunity to watch, wonder, or ask questions about the world a...

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RAISE: Using Geospatial Technology in the Public School

The Rural Alliance for Improving Science Education (RAISE) partners Oklahoma State University with three public school districts in Oklahoma, enabling...

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Books Published in 2004)

The annual list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 is selected by a committee of NSTA members. The selected titles on this list were...

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Curriculum Integration: Preparing Prospective Teachers

This article describes a science methods course that prepares preservice teachers to integrate a curriculum around thematic units. The project enable...

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The Golden Age of Islam and Science Teaching

The National Science Education Standards recognize that students could greatly benefit from learning the relationship of science to mathematics and to...

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Learning to Teach: The Role of Evidence

Prospective science teachers should be taught how to base their planning and instructional decisions on the systematic analysis of evidence of student...