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Exit Tickets

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Exit Tickets

Understanding students, adapting instruction, and addressing equity ...

By Kelsie Fowler, Mark Windschitl, and Jennifer Richards

Investigating Urban Trees

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Investigating Urban Trees

Mobile geospatial technologies enable high school students to engage in authentic scientific data collection and analysis that promote spatial-thinkin...

By James Carrigan, Alec Bodzin, Thomas Hammond, Scott Rutzmoser, Kate Popejoy, and William Farina

High School Environmental Science

The Perfect Match

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The Perfect Match

A lesson that focuses on the intricate co-evolution of flowers with their pollinators is one way to help students learn the delicate balance in nature...

By Julie Reynolds

Life Science

Genetics for All

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Genetics for All

This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports ...

By Lauren Stewart, Donna Ross, and Kimberly Elliot

Biology Labs Life Science

A Web of Ideas

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A Web of Ideas

Fostering scientific discourse with spider web discussions ...

By Michael Giamellaro, Jackson Blackburn, Molly Honea, and Jacob LaPlante

High School Teaching Strategies

Refraction

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Refraction

Exploring light as it moves from one medium to another with the intriguing result of different speeds—the bending of light we call refraction. ...

By Paul G. Hewitt

Ecologist

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Ecologist

Ecologists are biologists who study entire ecosystems and the interactions among their living and non-living components. Ecology can be applied in are...

By Luba Vangelova

Science for All—19th Century "Edutainment"

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Science for All—19th Century "Edutainment"

In 19th-century America, one popular way people obtained new scientific information was through traveling lectures and science demonstrations, sometim...

By Michael Apfeldorf

Journal Article

Cultivating Curiosity About Creatures

By Leslie Bradbury and Rachel Wilson

The Early Years: Create a Kit

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The Early Years: Create a Kit

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue describes how teachers can build their own kits...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Instructional Materials Teaching Strategies

Science Strategies Through Poetry

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Science Strategies Through Poetry

By Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong

Animatronic Lions, and Tigers, and Bears Oh! My!

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Animatronic Lions, and Tigers, and Bears Oh! My!

This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering. This issue shares information about computational thinking and 3D printing. ...

By Anna Newley, Erdogan Kaya, Ezgi Yesilyurt, and Hasan Deniz

Journal Article

Making Critical Thinking Visible for Student Analysis and Reflection

Practice critical-thinking skills with this phenomena-centered dinosaur bone activity. ...

By Kirsten R. Butcher, Madlyn Larson, McKenna Lane

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Sharing the Wonder of Natural History

Help students overcome nature-deficit disorder with these outdoor activities. ...

By Ashley Campbell, Brigette Whaley

Using Insect Biodiversity to Build Basic Skills

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Using Insect Biodiversity to Build Basic Skills

By Anne Schoeffler

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