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All Things in Moderation

Moderation, or the interactive analysis of student work by small groups of teachers, can help to qualify student understanding and increase teacher se...

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Science 101? What Causes Rainbows?

If you look at a rain cloud with the Sun behind your back, the sunlight and water drops may interact just right, revealing the familiar arc of red, or...

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Scope on Safety: Essential First Aid for Science Teachers

From a practical standpoint, science teachers should be trained to respond to incidents involving burns, bleeding, chemical exposure, swallowed poison...

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Science Sampler: Digital Field Trips

"Take only photographs. Leave only footprints." This is the author's motto as she bubbled forth with ideas and images after taking a digital camera al...

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Society for College Science Teachers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—Introductory Biology Textbooks

As editions of textbooks age, we are all forced to reexamine the universe of books and select one to use for three to four semesters. After 30 years o...

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Water Wherever

Whether rain, sleet, or snow, February weather across the country provides students with opportunities to observe the many different ways the water cy...

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Teaching Science to Newcomers

Many ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students are in classes primarily devoted to improving English language skills at the expense of o...

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AIM for Professional Development

Instructional materials help guide both what and how teachers teach and what and how students learn. Most educators, however, are not aware that the s...

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Chemistry as a Second Language

Chemistry is a unique language in and of itself that can be difficult for students to understand. As a result, the basic curriculum approach described...

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DNA Mapping Made Simple

The universality of the genetic code has allowed DNA isolated from a specific organism to be transferred and incorporated in another organism, transfo...

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Opening the Science Doorway

This article provides a number of practical strategies for teaching science to English Language Learners (ELLs). The strategies were developed by educ...

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Prayer Study

Students read an article about a study of the effects of intercessory prayer on cardiac patients published in a renowned medical journal. After readin...

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Using Easy-Bake Ovens to Teach Chemistry

After participating in an internship at the American Institute of Baking, the author developed an innovative way for students to explore basic chemist...

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The Fish Kill Mystery

In this case, students speculate on what may have caused a major fish kill in an estuary in North Carolina. In the process they explore how land runof...

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Inquiry-Based Instruction

The term inquiry has been used to form curriculum goals, design instructional strategies, and assess learning. The term also describes what scientis...