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After the Bell: On the road science

Ask students about summer travel plans, then bring out the classroom globe or world map to find the places they name. You can deepen the texture of st...

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Research and Teaching: Student Attitudes and Recommendations on Active Learning

A freshman student surveyed her peers seeking their opinions, attitudes, and recommendations regarding their experiences in a large, active-learning b...

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Inquiry Made Easy

While working with classroom teachers, the author developed a “doable” format for inquiry. This format emphasizes using a question wheel as a tool...

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An In-Depth Exploration of Karst

Exploring the fragile environment of Karst enables students to examine how Earth systems interact over time to create the spectacular landscape featur...

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Commentary: Go for the grants

An opinion piece about grant seeking and the success achieved with projects relying on collaboration and funds from outside the normal school paramete...

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Grassroots Environmentalism: Promoting inquiry-based learning through an outdoor education program

Students of the Riverside Military Academy (RMA) came up with the idea of starting a grassroots environmental club and within a year had 50 members. T...

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Evidence from Apollo: How science teachers can show students that humans have landed on the Moon

Did we really land on the Moon? How do we know? The "conspiracy theory" which says that astronauts did not land on the Moon is largely based on photog...

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Customized Internet Assessments

Online assessments, one area of Internet technology that educators are still trying to develop, can involve complicated programming beyond the reach o...

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Building Energy Efficiency: Energy auditing allows students to work with the community and learn new technology

The author developed a project-based curriculum called the "EnergyNet Energy Audit Project," to teach students about energy. Students look for wasted ...

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Teaching Effective Scientific Writing

In an extension of the preceding article, which describes a Towson University course that teaches students to analyze scientific information, this art...

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A Beach in Your Classroom

Combining biology, geology, mathematics, geography, and language arts, this activity encourages students to use the scientific method to solve a reali...

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Our Growing Planet

Children are naturally curious and passionate about taking care of the world around them. To capitalize on these interests, the unit described in this...

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Integrating Pharmacology into the Organic Chemistry Course

Many nonchemistry majors are unaware of the unity between chemistry and biology and tend to separate the two disciplines conceptually. In a course des...

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Analyzing and Communicating Scientific Information

Using collaborative techniques, case studies, and extensive assessment, students in the Towson Transition Course at Towson University learned to acces...