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Students See the Light: Investigating luminescence and incandescence through a three-part learning cycle

The difference between luminescence and incandescence seem simple enough concepts to teach. But to help students develop conceptual understanding, thi...

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Idea Bank: Tips and techniques for creative teaching

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank features creative teaching techniques...

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Reflections on Earth—Remote-Sensing Research from Your Classroom

The Smithsonian Institution, with support from Honda, has developed a program entitled Reflections on Earth to provide resources for remote-sensing ed...

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The Acadian Dikes

Technology permeates today’s society, but history also contains rich examples of technology as “a way of adapting.” The Egyptians’ approach to...

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Online Concept Maps: Enhancing collaborative learning by using technology with concept maps

In the early 1990s, the University of West Florida and IBM Latin America investigated establishing telecommunication links among schools. This arrange...

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Adding Math to Biology: Teaching the mathematical basis of evolutionary biology

Without a mathematical understanding of evolutionary theory, we leave students defenseless against shallow arguments and pseudoscience. In this activi...

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Examining Language To Capture Scientific Understandings: The Case of the Water Cycle

As teachers of science, we need to keep in mind that thought and language are intricately related. Linguistic approximations, errors, and misses may b...

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Commentary: Matchmaker, Matchmaker

An opinion piece about matching and how the pleasure of matching can be found in science class....

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Editor's Corner: Convention Fever

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Skeptical Science: Teaching students how to critically evaluate unusual claims

Should science teachers discuss the legitimacy of astrology, extrasensory perception (ESP), UFOs, touch therapy, cloning dinosaurs, or any other unusu...

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Games Students Play: Teaming up in physics class leads to cooperative learning

The case for motivating students through cooperative learning has been made and supported throughout the last two decades. Two well-known cooperative ...

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Project Reptile!

Good teachers continually plan learning experiences to help young children make connections within and among areas of study (Zemelman, Daniel, and Hyd...

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When a Hypothesis is <em>Not</em> an Educated Guess

The terms prediction and hypothesis are often used interchangeably, yet one term means to think about what might happen and the other means to think a...

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Dissect Your Squid and Eat It Too!

Studying an organism that lives in the ocean lends itself to many multidisciplinary studies, such as writing poetry about sea creatures, graphing fish...