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Commentary: Community Learning

An opinion piece about the Department of Education's Smaller Learning Community Program (SLCP), which aims to stimulate a complete redesign of seconda...

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Editor's Corner: Achieving Standards Through Integrated Science

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

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Teaching Teachers: Using Effective Demonstrations for Motivation

Presents practical teaching methods containing simple suggestions for classroom demonstration....

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Salton: A Sea of Controversy

The Salton Sea is an accidental lake that receives used irrigation water from the Colorado River. Humans have profoundly altered the area’s ecosyste...

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Lavosier Measures with Polymers

Measurement activities in middle school classrooms are usually lectures followed by an activity of measuring known samples. As an alternative, the aut...

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Studying Racial Bias: Too Hot to Handle?

Students evaluate a research proposal to determine if it is consistent with ethical principles and federal guidelines for the conduct of research with...

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Breathing Easy About New Air Pollution Standards

A town hall meeting is the backdrop for a role-playing case about ground-level ozone air pollution. The case consists of a flier and scripts drawn fro...

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Integrating Forensic Science: Forensics can be the basis of a unique curriculum that fosters analytical thinking and problem solving

Forensic science is appealing because people want to be "detectives" in the general sense. This has resulted in an explosion of interest in the study ...

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Conversion Contraption

It’s show time for eighth grade physical science students after a week of designing, building, and refining Conversion Contraptions. The contraption...

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A Bad Day for Sandy Dayton

Designed to help nonscience majors learn about motion, forces, and kinetic energy, students reconstruct a rear-end car accident that takes place in an...

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Assessing Air Quality: An integrated curriculum teaches high school science students about indoor air quality

The Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) Program, a pre-college program at Oregon State University, developed an educational fr...

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GIRLS: Gifted, Intelligent, Real-Life Scientists—High school students teach younger girls at science camp

The Webb Schools break down the barriers that deter intelligent young women from studying science. The GIRLS Science Camp (GIRLS stands for gifted, i...

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Puppets and Prose: Using puppets and children's literature in the science classroom

Adding puppets and children’s literature to the science classroom makes learning entertaining and motivating. Realistic puppets hold children’s at...

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Thought Patterns in Science & Creationism: Understanding the vast difference between creationism and evolutionary theory

The concept of evolution has been an important part of biology curricula, especially in high school, since the 1960s. Nevertheless, teaching the subje...

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A Reflection on <em>Rocket Boys/October Sky</em> in the Science Classroom

As the author of Rocket Boys: A Memoir, Homer H. Hickam, Jr. received thousands of letters and e-mails from fans, including many science teachers at b...