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Science Motivation in the Multicultural Classroom: Students construct science knowledge through active participation

A strong multicultural curriculum and instruction can make significant changes in motivating students in science and mathematics. In an effort to incr...

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Computers in Science

Computers can be used as a focal point in a course introducing various scientific fields and underscoring the interdisciplinary nature of science. Thi...

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Inspired by Real Science

A long-term collaboration between a teacher and a biomedical researcher taught third through fifth-grade students at a science focus school valuable l...

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Give Me Some Skin: A Hands-On Science Activity Integrating Racial Sensitivity

What’s the largest, fastest growing, organ in the human body? It’s the tough, elastic, flexible, and waterproof covering that helps protect other ...

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Science Sampler: Accessible reading assignments

A few simple reading strategies, properly utilized, can be dynamic, learning techniques. Here the author describes how these strategies helped to enga...

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Ask the Experts

Why is the Earth's core hot—is it still heating, or now cooling? Is there any evidence that all elements with an atomic number greater than lithium�...

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The Tools of Science: Using computer probeware to enhance students' laboratory experiences

Computer probeware enhances laboratories by allowing students to experience natural phenomena firsthand. In this article, the author describes ways in...

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Ecology on Campus

A laboratory exercise for an introductory environmental course was developed to give students service learning opportunities and to gather environment...

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Island Watershed Activity: Introducing students to watersheds and water quality

Before students can understand important water quality issues, they must learn about the existence and dynamics of watersheds. In this activity, stude...

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The Case Study: Senior Seminar

Incorporating a case study format into a senior seminar course is a novel method of teaching the components of a successful seminar. Within this forma...

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Journey into the Five Senses

As part of her doctoral research, this author visited a multi-age (K–2) classroom as it studied the five senses. The student-centered, hands-on unit...

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Teaching through Trade Books: The Science of Invention

The books What Is a Scientist? and Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women are used as springboards for projects in which ...

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Adapting to the Environment: Helping students understand natural selection

A classroom activity based on the story of the peppered moth sheds light on natural selection. While the topic of evolution is often difficult to appr...