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Making a Mini-Submarine: An open-ended investigation with positively buoyant results
A minature submarine is a fascinating toy that sinks and rises in a container of water. They make excellent teaching tools for illustrating the concep...
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Students are enthusiastic with the multi-resource learning environment in which multiple resources, such as the Internet, science posters, magazines, ...
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Hands-On Science, 680 Hands at a Time
This article explains how students can do hands-on science in a large lecture theater with seats bolted to the floor. It specifically describes the lo...
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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. In this month’s Idea Bank the focus is on density slicing—...
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Teaching Teachers: Standardizing the Language of Inquiry
Using the precise language of science can help teachers develop students' science-process skills. Inquiry goes far beyond simply asking questions. Inq...
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In the Footsteps of Archimedes: Archimedes' fabled experiment leads to discoveries about density
In this article, an activity is created where students find the mass of a sample of copper with the stipulation that they can use anything in the lab ...
eBook
Charging Ahead: An Introduction to Electromagnetism (e-Book)
Charging Ahead: An Introduction to Electromagnetism is a set of hands-on activities designed to help teachers introduce middle and high school student...
eBook
Community Connections For Science Education: History and Theory You Can Use, Volume II (e-Book)
Community Connections For Science Education: History and Theory You Can Use, Volume II takes a look at various informal science education (ISE) settin...
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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. In this month’s Idea Bank, learn about open-ended inquiry an...
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You Can Always Tell a Dancer by Her Feet
This discrepant event and the activities that follow examine pressure from a scientific perspective, while applying math to deepen students’ underst...
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Visualizing Science Using the Roundhouse Diagram
At the middle school level, science instruction becomes complicated by difficult vocabulary and complex, often abstract, notions (Jones and McEwin, 19...
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Boiling Ice: A physics demonstration illustrating the kinetic molecular theory of matter
Physics is a good course to teach to young students because inquiry-based activities can be integrated into lectures to reinforce concepts and ideas. ...
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It happens every summer in Scott County, Virginia. Kids take time off from their summer vacation to return to the science classroom. They return to bu...
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Commentary: Enriching the Curriculum
An opinion piece about teachers covering the basic science curriculum, and doing this while meeting the needs and interests of an increasingly diverse...
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Optic Inquiry: Students investigate a simple anomaly to learn basic science skills
Using an inquiry approach in the classroom is an effective teaching method. In this article, the inquiry-based lesson called "Magic in a Tube," helps ...