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Every Day Science: October 2009

This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer....

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Science 101: How do you ask effective questions in science class, and how do you analyze the responses?

To summarize the author’s answer to this question, effective questions are those that lead, eventually, to answers that indicate the student understands what’s going on beyond a terse answer that might just be memorized. In assessing the answers,...

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Wind Solvers

Measuring real weather provides a nice opportunity for data collection and problem-solving when students work to create a procedure before they gather data. It is also a powerful way to get students to notice the weather. In this lesson, the data col...

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Deer Tracks in the City?

“Why would a deer print be in the city?” wondered a student. She had noticed the track near a grocery store that morning with her mother. She was familiar with deer and had noticed their prints on a trip to a local museum; however, she had never ...