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Enhancing students’ cognitive development is a priority—students must learn how to think. Inquiry instruction provides students with tools to ma...
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Science Sampler: No stress science fair
Teachers can combat two common pitfalls of science fairs—finding time and excessive parental involvement—by working the projects into the classroo...
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Assessing Student Understanding
Science education has moved from the traditional lecture-and-demonstration model toward a student inquiry model. Although science teachers know that i...
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The following question is addressed in this month’s column: An email debate among science teachers focused on the explosive nature of “superheated...
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Few things capture the spirit of spring like flying a kite. Watching a kite dance and sail across a cloud-spotted sky is not only a visually appealing...
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Scope on the Skies: And now there are five
This month opens with four of the five brightest planets (Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter) very visible as they line up across the evening skies afte...
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Chemistry is a difficult subject for students to understand because its core concepts—atoms, molecules, and chemical bonds—cannot be directly obse...
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With some creative integration, this teacher increased student interest in physical science and received a 2002 NSTA Toyota TAPESTRY Grant. Her proj...
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Reverse Your Science Fair with Educational Partnerships
Do your students roll their eyes and groan at the idea of another science fair? If so, try implementing a different twist on science fairs, where teac...
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Student K-13 (Books Published in 2003)
The Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 are selected every fall by an NSTA committee. These are the books selected for the publishing ye...
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Science Sampler: Multiple intelligences and lab groups
Science teachers who are committed to excellence in the classroom continually seek ways to improve teaching and learning, and the concept of multiple ...
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Multidisciplinary Explorations
A course integrating the fields of engineering and biology was developed to teach students to solve real-world problems that included aspects from bot...
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Editor's Corner: Modeling Clay, Whiteboards, and Poster Sessions
As classroom teachers, we develop great expertise with sticky notes, whiteout, and highlighters. They are the staples of our daily survival along with...
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The Force of Multimedia Slideshows
In this project, fourth-grade students researched physical science concepts and then shared their knowledge with multimedia presentations. Students u...
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The concept of energy arises in all disciplines of science, from ecosystems and species niches to gravity and motion. However, most students have diff...