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Journal Article
In this month's section we explore the integration of math into the science curriculum. Meaningful math and science integration can also help teacher...
Journal Article
Home Connections: Counting Populations
This activity, designed for students to do at home, introduces the concept of population sampling. Students scatter pasta on a grid and count the numb...
Journal Article
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank, the science faculty is looking fo...
Journal Article
Ask the Experts (January 2004)
Why does the Moon appear larger in winter? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of its container?This article contains the expert's answers....
Journal Article
A new activity model for scientific inquiry is presented here with the overall intent of providing students and teachers with a deeper understanding o...
Book Chapter
Aristotle took the ideas of those who had come before him and melded them into a grand theory that attempted to explain and classify everything know. ...
Book Chapter
For decades, many of the nation’s life science classrooms have been anything but lively. Biology has been criticized for being content heavy, overlo...
Book Chapter
Introduction to Watershed Dynamics
The title of this book, Watershed Dynamics, refers to the idea that streams, rivers, lakes, and other water bodies are dynamic systems, continuously c...
Book Chapter
Opponents to teaching the theory of evolution declare that it is only a theory and not a fact; and that science relies on observation, replication, an...
Book Chapter
Classroom Management and Safety
Welcome to the challenge of making good science come to life in your classroom. In this chapter, we look at how to get the science classroom ready for...
Book Chapter
A Bright Idea: Reinforcing Logico-Deductive Reasoning
Many students in freshman- and sophomore-level science courses have little experience formulating testable hypotheses. However, an accurate comprehens...
Book Chapter
Successful learning is more apt to occur when students are engaged in discovering and building their own frameworks of knowledge. To meet this standar...
Book Chapter
This book is a compilation of brief descriptions of innovative and effective ideas, tips, and approaches in undergraduate science teaching. Assessment...
Book Chapter
Every course covers some concepts that will present challenges to many students. Once those challenges have been identified how do you present them fo...
Book Chapter
It's only human nature to ask, "If sea anemones can clone themselves without trying, and the natural cloning powers of plants are so easily exploited,...