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Modeling Multidisciplinary Science

A common research theme was incorporated into several biology and chemistry courses. Students in participating courses carry out different but complem...

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Let's Try Action Research!

A first-grade teacher discusses what she gained from her participation in a Science and Children action research project questioning students on their...

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Editor's Corner: Your Voice Counts

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on how "your voice counts" in helping influence the future of science education....

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The Home Zone: Flying Together

Airplanes, like kites and other flying objects, are of great interest to elementary children. Like the Wright brothers and countless other aviation pi...

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Undergraduate Marine Research

Science and nonscience majors work together in a remote field setting on authentic marine research projects supervised by faculty from multiple discip...

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Tried and True: Balloons and Newton's Third Law

This constructivist adaptation of the classic balloon-on-a-string exploration leads students to investigate Newton's third law: for every action forc...

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Careers in Science: An interview with physical vapor deposition and coatings expert Patrick Sullivan

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. In this month's feature, find out how Patrick Sullivan became involv...

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Science Sampler: To heat or not to heat

As part of a lesson on heat transfer, middle school students design their own investigation of conduction, insulation, and convection....

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Commentary: Enthusiasm is Contagious

An opinion piece about students learning more when they are excited about the topic, and educators teaching better when they teach about something the...

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Tech Trek: Science research on the Internet

Young students often get frustrated when trying to find useful information on the Internet for school purposes and end up jumping from one point of in...

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It's Raining Micrometeorites

Did you know that whenever you take a walk in the rain, you have a close encounter with extraterrestrial material? Our atmosphere contains small, micr...

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Cooperative Chemistry

Concept mapping in the organic chemistry laboratory can supplant cookbook activities with higher cognitive exercises. The common thread of most organi...

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Making Science Accessible: Strategies to Meet the Needs of a Diverse Student Population

Despite the sincere interest of many teachers to address the varying educational needs of their students (Scruggs and Mastropieri 1994), the current e...

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After the Bell: Balancing the equity equation—The importance of experience and culture in science learning

The importance of environmental influences outside of school has been the focus of numerous studies that support the home’s influence on science lea...