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Full Application of the Scientific Method in an Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory: A Reality-Based Approach to Experiential Student-Directed Instruction

Classroom experiments are often designed for convenience, ignoring fundamental scientific processes. Even “hands-on” experiences seldom allow the ...

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Scope on the Skies: The sky is falling

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. In this issue, learn about the special events occurring in the months of November and December....

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Making Environmentally Friendly Cleaners

The emphasis on science education involves students "doing science" with hands-on and minds-on activities. In this article, students do science by mak...

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Teaching Teachers: Day of Science

"Day of Science" provided students an opportunity to sample various hands-on activities and also provided superb learning and practice opportunities f...

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Teaching with Dewey on My Shoulder: John Dewey's ideas about interaction and continuity contribute to the teaching and learning of science

When John Dewey’s name appears somewhere, many people imagine a librarian inventing an organizing system for shelving library books, but this is a d...

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Favorite Demonstration: The Laporte Selection Rule in Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy

The Laporte selection rule states that electronic transitions between two gerade (g) states are forbidden; electronic transitions between two ungerade...

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The Molecular Evidence for Evolution: Narrowing the Definition of Evolution to Represent a Single Concept

The best way for students to discover how DNA sequences confirm descent with modification is to let them analyze data from the public sequence databas...

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Learn with Levers

This is an exciting unit on levers that culminates with a student lever launch contest that takes them to Mars. The student whose probe lands closest ...

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After the Bell: The neurological tourist

Teachers sometimes have difficulty suggesting appropriate activities for specialized topics, such as neuroscience. This article directs students to a ...

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Time-out for Science

The purpose of the time-outs, which last from five to seven days, is to sharpen and assess students' process skills. One of the keys to successful tim...

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Point of View: Scientific “Truth”—A Barrier to Understanding? Truth, Knowledge, and the Pursuit of Meaning in Science

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue, the author discusses the ...

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Journal Articles as Case Studies: The New England Journal of Medicine on Lactose Intolerance

Students use as the basis for a case study a journal article investigating whether people who claimed to have severe lactose intolerance really were u...