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Guest Editorial: To Reweave a Rainbow—Reflections on the Unity of Knowledge

An opinion piece about the "Unity of Knowledge."...

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The Paradigm Changes: But Do Our Students Know That? Tracking the Gradual and Continual Evolution of the Periodic Chart

Although Mendeleeff presented his periodic chart in a paper to the German Chemical Society in 1869, its acceptance was a gradual process. The changes ...

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Favorite Demonstration: The Effect of Calcium on the Binding of Calmodulin to Calcium/Calmodulin Protein Kinase II: Demonstrating the Calcium-Dependent Binding of Calmodulin to a Target Protein

This exercise visually demonstrates that the binding of calcium to calmodulin changes its conformation to allow binding to a target protein, calcium/c...

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Integrating Introductory Biology and General Chemistry Laboratories: Making the Necessary Connections Between Scientific Disciplines at Boston University

This paper discusses how two different laboratory sections can employ nontraditional investigative laboratory modules that integrate concepts from cel...

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Research and Teaching: Using Learning-Styles Data to Design a Microbiology Course: Addressing a Spectrum of Learning Styles at the University of Puerto Rico

Studies in learning theory indicate that active learning is more effective than passive learning (Matthews, Cooper, Davidson, and Hawkes 1995; McKeach...

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http://World Wide Weather: Involving students in GLOBE's real-life scientific research

Students at Norwood School and more than 8,000 other schools on seven continents (including Antarctica) learn how scientific research works by partici...

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Using an Environmental Science Course to Promote Scientific Literacy: Expanding Critical-Thinking Skills Beyond the Environmental Sciences

The scientific and technological issues surrounding environmental problems exemplify why teaching scientific literacy is so vital to environmental sci...

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Tech Trek: Distant partners

The projects in this article focus on how a team approach can take advantage of the best of the Internet. To spread the word about these projects info...

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Enhancing Undergraduate Science Instruction: The G-Step Approach: Capitalizing on the Pedagogical Strengths of Science Educators and the Content Expertise of Science TAs

Only rarely do teaching assistants (TAs) attend professional development workshops designed to acquaint them with pedagogical models. Thus, new instru...

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Library of Conservation: Using children's literature to teach the concept of stewardship integrates science and language arts

As we try to achieve the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) and promote general science literacy for young childre...

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Editor's Note: It <b>Is</b> Exciting

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue and introduces NSTA's SciLINKS® connection....

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Problem Solver: Teaching Tropisms

Plants are found in most locations in the world and have the remarkable ability to capture and store energy from sunlight. Without the green plant’s...

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Flying through Genetics

When teaching heredity and genetics, a problem-centered, open-ended approach allows students to feel like scientists solving real problems. This inves...

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What College Science Faculty Can Learn About Change: The K-16 Continuum—Viewing School Teachers as Partners in Change

K–12 teachers, who sometimes know more about teaching and learning than college professors, can be a great source of information about effective tea...