All Resources

Journal Article

The Total Science Experience Laboratory for Sophomore Biology Majors: Transcending the Laboratory to Learn Much More Than Just Biology

In the Total Science Experience (TSE) lab, students become team research scientists. Proposal writing and reviewing, project management, team coordina...

Journal Article

Favorite Demonstration: La Fiesta Radioactiva: Distinguishing Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Emissions from Orange-Glazed Dinnerware

This demonstration involves measuring the radioactivity emitted by Fiesta dinnerware. It will acquaint students with the rudiments of radiation detect...

Journal Article

Tuned In, Turned On

This activity "TV Graphic Journal," allows students the freedom to choose TV programs that meet their interests. Keeping up their journals adds extra ...

Journal Article

Guest Editorial: The Need for More Schoolteachers in Science and Math—How Colleges Can Help

An opinion piece about the need for more schoolteachers in science and math and how colleges can help. This article appeared in an issue of "The Chron...

Journal Article

Creating a Classroom Museum

Creating a classroom museum is one way to bring the excitement of a museum into the classroom year-round. In this activity, students have so much fun ...

Journal Article

Dopplerball

Dopplerball is used at the end of a unit on waves and sound to give students firsthand experience with the Doppler effect. Students play the game in s...

Journal Article

Semester-Length Field Investigations in Undergraduate Animal Behavior and Ecology Courses: Making the Laboratory Experience the Linchpin of Science Education

Undergraduate science laboratory courses often use "cookbook" exercises where expected results are known without the need for thought or experiment. I...

Journal Article

Research and Teaching: Cultural Factors in Science Education—Variables Affecting Achievement: Exploring the Relationship Between Mathematical Knowledge and Scientific Success

The course in this article is a first-semester general chemistry class with a large-enrollment lecture section of students with minimal background in...

Journal Article

Looking Out for Latex: Become aware of dealing with latex allergies

The author of this article shares information learned from actual classroom experiences with latex allergies. These allergies are new to the teaching ...

Journal Article

Scope on the Skies: Pluto returns to the ninth position

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue highlights the rare event that takes place this February and everyone who t...

Journal Article

Editor's Note: Come On, We Can Do It!

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

Journal Article

Guest Editorial: So, How Does a Multicultural Classroom Look? Sound?

An opinion piece about the importance of and the opportunities for learning in multicultural elementary classrooms....

Journal Article

The Case Study: The Bee and the Groundhog: Lessons in Cooperative Learning—Troubles with Groups

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

Journal Article

Reading the Literature in the Jargon-Intensive Field of Molecular Genetics: Making Molecular Genetics Accessible to Undergraduates Using a Process-Centered Curriculum

Primary literature in molecular genetics is often inaccessible to undergraduates. This article describes an adaptation of a method of teaching student...

Journal Article

What's My Line?

A teacher adapts the format of the show What's My Line? for a unit on famous scientists and inventors. The project consists of a five-paragraph essay,...