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Methods and Strategies: The 6-E Learning Model
Most teachers are familiar with the 5-E model of science instruction—Engage, Explore, Explain, Expand, and Evaluate. This model adds a sixth "E" to ...
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A newly appointed joint hire in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences and the College of Education, Department of Middle/Se...
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Teaching the Stories of Scientists and their Discoveries
It takes very little extra time and effort to correlate required science concepts with history. For example, teachers can provide the historical backg...
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Revising Instruction to Teach Nature of Science
Despite numerous attempts, including the major curricular reform efforts of the 1960s to improve students’ understandings about the scientific endea...
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Mountains Majesty: Ecosystems of the Rocky Mountains
Traveling from the East, one can see the towering snow-covered peaks of the Rocky Mountains long before reaching foothills. But to fully appreciate t...
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A high school hockey team is playing the last of three games in one day. The game gets rough, and the star player is slammed against the boards. Injur...
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Scope on the Skies: Sun and Moon upstage each other in October
This issue of Scope on the Skies sheds light on the partial lunar eclipse and the total lunar eclipse that occurred within two weeks of each other dur...
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After learning about weathering and erosion, fifth-grade students worked in cooperative groups to create a “mountain” that could resist the effect...
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Tried and True: A touch of neuroscience
The preteen years of the middle grades represent a time of incredible physical and mental development. Understanding the parts and functions of the br...
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The Case of the “Tainted” Taco Shells
This case study introduces students to the use of genetically modified foods. Students learn how genetically modified plants are made, and then they r...
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This case involves a couple deciding whether or not their son should undergo brain surgery to treat a severe seizure disorder. In examining this dilem...
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The Biology of Food course—a large lecture course with no laboratory section—is a mixture of kitchen chemistry, post-eating food metabolism, origi...
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The experts address the following question in this month’s column: My mom always warns me that I should never eat undercooked hamburgers, but we ser...
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Coins represent much more than a token of monetary value. They tell a story. Nearly every Roman ruler issued many coins of various sizes that reflecte...