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Science Shorts: Tarred and Feathered

We rely on the transportation of oil around the world to meet our energy needs. Oil is carried across the oceans on large ships called tankers. Unfo...

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Field Ecology in a Cultural Context

Ecological studies that examine how organisms interact with their environment provide a particularly useful backdrop for high school students to both ...

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Reading & Writing Nonfiction with Children: Using Biographies to Learn about Science and Scientists

Students are introduced to real life accounts of scientists in this fun and hands-on activity. Through biographies, students identify examples that re...

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Tech trek: Viewing volcanoes

Help students make real-world connections to Earth science concepts such as volcanoes with the help of modern technology. This article enumerates sev...

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Savvy Consumers Through Science

Is Bounty the "quicker picker upper?" Are expensive shampoos better? Are all antacids the same? Fourth grade students posed and answered these ques...

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Research and Teaching: Field Trips and Their Effect on Student Achievement and Attitudes -- A Comparison of Physical Versus Virtual Field Trips to the Indian River Lagoon

This study examined the effect of physical and virtual field trips on undergraduate, nonscience majors. No significant differences were seen in achiev...

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Mathematics in the Biology Classroom: A Model of Interdisciplinary Education

This article describes an interdisciplinary course that develops essential mathematical modeling skills within an introductory biology setting. The co...

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A Decade of Concern: A review of multicultural science education issues in the The Science Teacher

Multicultural science education has long been of interest to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). As a result, The Science Teacher has de...

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

The annual list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for K-12 students was selected by a committee of National Science Teacher Association members. This...

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Scope on Safety: Greener is cleaner, and safer

Indigenous people of many continents have practiced the concept of going"green" for centuries--you should too! Green chemistry, or sustainable chemist...

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Idea Bank: Interview Assessment

Do you worry that your high school chemistry students are not learning enough from lab activities? If so, it is possible that they aren't learning eno...

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Science Sampler: Content Reading Strategies

Since effective reading and comprehension skills impact achievement in science, this collection of reading content strategies will be useful in helpi...

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The Making of "The List"

Have you ever wondered how the mountain of trade books out there gets evaluated or how books are chosen as "outstanding"? The Outstanding Science Tra...

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A Rationale for Cultural Awareness in the Science Classroom

Across the United States, only 10% of all teachers are members of minority groups, indicating that teachers are far less diverse than the current popu...

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Are They Really Learning What We're Teaching? An Informal Survey and Student Self-Assessment

While enrolled in either the first or second semester of a two-semester human anatomy and physiology sequence, students self-assessed their mastery of...