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Bennett's Millpond

In a rural Eastern North Carolina county, a team of students and teachers came together to explore the scientific dynamics of a historic millpond. The...

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Science Sampler: Games that teach

Teachers spend a great deal of time trying to capture student interest because motivation is the beginning of learning. One effective way to do this i...

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Science Sampler: Making Connections Fun

Games are a great way to help students make meaningful connections between abstract science concepts and vocabulary. This article describes three game...

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Science Sampler: The Octet Rules-- A dating game for atoms

To develop student interest in the periodic table, try incorporating this simple, but fun, role-playing activity that follows a game-show format into ...

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Career of the Month: An Interview with Radiation Therapist Robert Adams

Cancer encompasses over 125 diseases. In the United States alone, over 1 million people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. Approximately 70 perc...

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SPF 30: Exposing Your Students to Science Inquiry

Students engaged in inquiry-based science are learning to solve problems, organize their own knowledge, and use higher levels of thinking. This unit b...

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The GISt of GPS

By getting lost in geospatial technology, a group of high school students discovered how to help members of the community find their way around. This ...

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Synthesizing Scientific Knowledge

Using the evolution of the universe as an organizing concept framework allows for a natural synthesis of all scientific knowledge. With this concept a...

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Measuring River Pollution

The Don River watershed is located within Canada’s most highly urbanized area—metropolitan Toronto. To help assess the ecological health of the Do...

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Getting into ENSO

To develop scientific literacy in today’s global era, it is important that students learn about interactions within the Earth’s systems worldwide....

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Polymers and People

Each Tuesday during the fall of 2002, teams of high school students from three South Carolina countries conducted a four-hour polymer institute for th...

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After the Bell: Hazardous waste roundup

When most people think of hazardous waste, they generally think of materials used in construction, the defense industry, mining, manufacturing, and a...

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A Ladder of Thinking

Introducing students to metacognition, or thinking about one’s thinking, allows them to discover the value of reflection. Courses related to thinkin...

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Nutritional Chemistry

With the convenience of fast-food restaurants on almost every corner, many young people are consuming these foods too often. Therefore, a group of con...

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Career of the Month: An interview with hurricane researcher Christopher Landsea

Do you find yourself gazing at the sky, curious about the forces of nature? Meteorologists’ curiosity drives them to understand Earth’s atmospheri...