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Science Sampler: Birds make learning easy

The Classroom Feeder Watch (CFW) curriculum published by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology can be the basis for an engaging classroom unit. Throug...

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Quizzing Students on the Myths of Science

One way to promote better understanding of the nature of science is to study myths of science by teaching, testing, and reflecting on these ideas at m...

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Career of the Month: An interview with bomb investigator Barney T. Villa

When there is a bomb threat, these men and women com to the rescue. You may have seen them portrayed in movies and cop shows, but bomb technicians and...

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Project Notebook

This article provides an overview of a professional development program designed by seven science resource teachers in which science notebooks were in...

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Student-Centered Notebooks

To recognize the benefit of science notebooks, they should be viewed as useful, personalized tools rather than an assignment. This article examines ho...

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What Belongs in Your 15-Bean Soup?

Students can use seed characteristics to discriminate between the different kinds of legumes using taxonomic classification processes of sorting and r...

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Science Sampler: The scientific method -- Is it still useful?

Many scientists and science educators contend that a structured scientific method does not exist, while others might argue that the scientific method ...

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Research and Teaching: Traditional and Constructivist Teaching Techniques—Comparing Two Groups of Undergraduate Nonscience Majors in a Biology Lab

Constructivist teaching techniques work well in various instructional settings, but many teachers remain skeptical because there is a lack of quantita...

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Scope on Safety: Chemicals: What's In? What's Out?

Chemistry should be fun and exciting, but much preparation and skill are needed by the teacher and students in working with chemicals. Unfortunately, ...

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Modeling the Writing Process

This article describes a series of assignments that models the process of writing a manuscript for publication. While completing the assignments, stud...

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Teaching Through Trade Books: A Season to Inquire

Aside from learning about naturally occurring cycles that happen over time, trade books about seasons can help students learn about the cause of the s...

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Technology and Society: Their Impact on Each Other

As part of the National Science Foundation–funded Internships in Public Science Education (IPSE) program, the authors created a classroom activity t...

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The Case Study: Racism and All Sorts of Politically Correct <em> isms </em> in Case Studies

Case studies typically do not promulgate a particular viewpoint about a subject. They may, however, take a particular stance on an issue—one the aut...

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Science 101: What Is Acid Rain?

Acid rain is the collective term for any type of acidified precipitation: rain, snow, sleet, and hail, as well as the presence of acidifying gases, pa...

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Editorial: A’s and F’s

In many schools, students who fail all of their classes are passed to the next grade if the students’ parents or guardians want them to be passed. T...