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Teaching Through Trade Books: Celestial Studies
Children love astronomy but the complex ideas associated with the topic often lead to misconceptions. This month’s column features simple activities...
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Student time on task is the most influential factor in student achievement. To maximize time on task, teachers need to make decisions about the system...
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Idea Bank: Beginning the Year with a Symposium
To address the concern of common lag time at the beginning of the school year, the science department at Detroit’s Kettering High School opened the ...
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Assessment in the Palm of Your Hand
Project WHIRL, a three-year-grant from the National Science Foundation, enabled researchers from SRI International’s Center for Technology in Learni...
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We all know lots of sayings about gravity. "What goes up must come down." "You fail to understand the gravity of the situation." Gravity is the name ...
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Scope on Safety: It's hard saying goodbye to an old flame
Given the concerns about alcohol lamps and the relatively high frequency of accidents, are there any viable alternatives for heat sources? Yes! Depend...
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Methods and Strategies: Strategy Makeover—K-W-L to T-H-C
The K-W-L strategy works well as a preassessment tool because it reveals what students know and want to learn about a topic before instruction and as ...
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Tried and True: Traffic control tips for hands-on labs
The following are some tried and true methods of avoiding materials management and traffic problems associated with hands-on activities. While each cl...
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Outbreak! is an online, interactive educational game that helps students and teachers learn and evaluate clinical microbiology skills. When the game w...
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English Language Learners in the Science Classroom
What can we as teachers do to help English Language Learners (ELLs) learn science when we do not speak their languages or know their cultures? Both p...
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Teaching for Conceptual Understanding
A series of lessons were taught in a second-grade classroom to assist students’ conceptual understanding of celestial motion. After assessing studen...