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Science Sampler: Successful lab reports through model analysis

Despite your best efforts, are the majority of your middle school students unable to write detailed, complete lab reports? If your answer is a resound...

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Idea Bank: Using Food Science as a Thematic Unit

While rethinking the math and science program for ninth- and tenth-grade high school students, the authors found that the math, English, and social st...

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Living on a Restless Earth

The human race is learning to live with the restless nature of Earth. Thanks to the work of Earth scientists, we can forecast and prepare for many nat...

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A Chance to Be Like Lance

The physical demands of the Tour de France and the success of American cyclist Lance Armstrong provide a great "hook" to teach middle school student...

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How Small Is a Cell?

Through the following inquiry-based activity involving yeast, students learn about cell size in a way they will never forget. Essentially, each studen...

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Science Shorts: Going Through Changes

Earth's surface is always changing. Much of that change happens because of air, wind, water, and temperature differences. If you have ever observed ...

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Accidental Drowning or Foul Play?

This case was developed for a sophomore organic chemistry lab to illustrate how a combination of techniques is usually required in the identification ...

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Editorial: An Inside Peek at a Case Study Workshop

Here we are again with another special issue of JCST devoted to using case study teaching in the science classroom. These cases are the product of t...

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Natural Hazards in Your Community

The Earth is a powerful, active, and ever-changing planet. Earthquakes and volcanoes reshape the Earth’s crust with sudden bursts of movement or wit...

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Science Sampler: Lab report blues

For middle school students, writing a formal lab report can be challenging. For middle level teachers, reading students’ lab reports can be overwhel...

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Shedding Light on the Inverse-Square Law

One way to show students that they can “do” science is to have them use an observable event to generate a relationship that can be used as a predi...

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An Adventure in Stereochemistry

This case is based on an article that considered the problems that would arise if a person were to cross over into a mirror-image environment (Yee 200...

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Career of the Month: An Interview with Industrial Toxicologist Greg Allgood

Are you ever curious about the safety of sugar substitutes, air pollution, or your city’s tap water? Chemicals may make the world go around, but som...

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Go on a ScienceQuest

In this new learning strategy, called a ScienceQuest, students solve problems while learning “big picture” concepts. In this “Cousin Ella Left H...

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Strategies for Teaching Something New

It is the beginning of another school year and, after teaching sixth-grade life science for 15 years, you are now asked to teach eighth-grade Earth sc...