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Severe Weather

Educating the public about safety issues related to severe weather is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) mission. Th...

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Home Connections: Up Goes the Water

Have you ever wondered how water performs its gravity-defying act of moving upward from the roots to the leaves of a plant? How does water get all the...

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The Adventures of the Bucket Buddies

Through Bucket Buddies—a collaborative online project—elementary students from more than 150 schools in 33 states and 6 countries have taken sampl...

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Snail Tales

“Snail Tales” is an inquiry-based exploratory lesson for students to investigate learning and memory using common garden snails. This classroom la...

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Research and Teaching: Expectations and Difficulties of First-Year Biology Students

In a study done at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, the author tracked 410 students who majored in biological sciences. He focused on different variables,...

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Mercury's MESSENGER

A salient feature of our species is the impetus to explore. Now that most of our own planet is well explored, the Space Age has opened the heavens for...

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The Case Study: The Case of the Dividing Cell—Mitosis and Meiosis in the Cellular Court (Part II—Court is Back in Session)

The jury filed back into the courtroom, hardly visible to the spectators seated on the benches. Their tiny prokaryotic bodies seemed to bounce along t...

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Newton's First Law: Not So Simple After All

With the premise that even "simple" ideas aren't always understood by all, these demonstrations and hands-on activities were conducted to help third-...

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Editor's Note (March 2004)

If science is the study of the natural world, how can we avoid physics and chemistry? Our students should understand the connections of the biologica...

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Career of the Month: An Interview with Microbiologist Dale B. Emeagwali

Although invisible to the naked eye, viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites can be found everywhere, from the air we breathe to inside our favorite f...

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Idea Bank: Melting a Misconception

The following lab was originally designed to teach the importance of manipulating a single variable in an experiment. However, the lab also dispels a ...

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Libros de Ciencias en Español (March 2004)

Spanish-speaking children, like children everywhere, are naturally interested in the world around them. If we are to encourage their understanding an...

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Tried and True: Extending paper chromatography inquiry

With some ingenuity and forethought, teachers can make simple modifications to a standard paper chromatography lesson that will improve student intere...