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Blue Solids, Red Liquids, and Yellow Gases

During this eye-opening unit, students create visual representations of some very abstract concepts, and in the process eliminate many of their miscon...

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Photographing Wildlife: Observing wildlife with an inexpensive camera

This activity can produce meaningful learning by improving students' skills in planning, problem solving, and decision making, as well as to serve as ...

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Commentary: The Evolution Wars

An opinion piece about the teaching of evolution....

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Teaching Teachers: Standards Direct Preservice Teacher Portfolios

Portfolios provide an opportunity and a structure for teachers to document and describe their teaching, articulate professional knowledge, and reflect...

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On Board the Vomit Comet

Students need to understand that science problems have more than one possible solution. Therefore, incorporating hands-on problem solving activities i...

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The Meteor Meter

The Meteor Scatter Project, a replication of a NASA funded project carried out by Anthony Mallama, is a system capable of recognizing meteor activity ...

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Guest Editorial: Computers in the Year 2000

An opinion piece about the millennium computer bug or year 2000 problem (Y2K) that could cause computer systems to crash....

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Activities with Antlions

Once students become aware that science is something that most of us “do” daily, they are more apt to want to do science themselves. To encourage ...

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Idea Bank: Sun's Rays Strike Earth

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

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The Case Study: And All That Jazz—An Essay Extolling the Virtues of Writing Case Teaching Notes

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. T...

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Constructive Evaluations

Action research is one of the fastest growing directions of staff development (Webb, 1996). This article describes how the author used the Constructiv...

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Active Learning in Introductory Climatology: A Software Package that Forecasts Sunny Skies for Climatological Research

Introducing the software package “ClimProb” to their University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, the authors created a more exciting and interesting ...

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Editor's Corner: Teaching Facts, Not Fantasy

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

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Power Demand for Walking on the Treadmill: An Academic Exercise Integrating Concepts of Physics and Human Physiology

This paper presents a mathematical model for walking on the treadmill that calculates the minimum power required for walking on the level at a constan...

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Taking Flight: Using a Wind Tunnel to Teach Aeronautic Principles

Although December 17, 1903, is heralded as the date of the first controlled powered flight, Wilbur and Orville Wright may never have succeeded were it...