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Fuel Your Curriculum: Processing environmentally friendly fuel engages an entire school in an interdisciplinary project

In this article two teachers, one from the science department and one from the industrial technology department, paired up in a newly developed course...

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Box Up Your Habitat

The Envirobox Project involved a total of six classes (first- through fifth-grades) from around the United States sending each other a shoebox contain...

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Good Science Begins With Good Questions

Students in a large, active-learning, freshman biology class learned to ask better questions with the aid of a new taxonomy for student questions. The...

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Commentary: Mass and Weight—Explaining the Difference

An opinion piece about two of the most commonly confused words in science class—mass and weight....

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Fact or Fiction?

This article describes how to use the radio broadcast of H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds as a backdrop to studying the planets and how they differ fro...

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Commentary: Developing Professionals

An opinion piece about having access to and participating in ongoing, quality, professional development programs....

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A New Paradigm in Integrated Math and Science Courses

This article describes an interdisciplinary curriculum designed by the authors that connects math, science, and technology with the lives of their stu...

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Scavenger Hunts: Chasing Down Scientific Answers

Describing a scavenger hunt activity that stimulates active learning, the authors present objectives, examples, pitfalls, grading methods, and an eval...

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Buffer Biology: A design-your-own lab for chemistry

This article presents a buffer investigation to learn about the buffering capacity of household products such as shampoo and hand lotion. Students des...

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The Sun Tower

With funding and support from the NASA Office of Space Science through the IDEAS program, a team of teachers from Gullett Elementary School in Austin,...

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Rock Cycle Roulette: Using dice and probabilities, students interactively learn about the rock cycle

Teachers of environmental science, Earth systems, geology electives, or traditional Earth science courses must teach the rock cycle at some point in t...