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Science Sampler: Solar Panels and alternative energy in the eighth-grade classroom

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Science Sampler: Solar Panels and alternative energy in the eighth-grade classroom

In this solar panels and alternative energy project, students were challenged to develop a researchable question about solar energy and electronics an...

Teacher’s Toolkit: Strategies for the meaningful evaluation of multiple-choice assessments

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Teacher’s Toolkit: Strategies for the meaningful evaluation of multiple-choice assessments

Too many multiple-choice tests are administered without an evaluative component. Teachers often return student assessments or Scantron cards—compute...

Transporting Students Into Thin Air: Using Science to Enhance Reading

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Transporting Students Into Thin Air: Using Science to Enhance Reading

The Into Thin Air unit, based on the book by Jon Krakauer, was designed as an interdisciplinary unit for a small group of academically gifted sixth-gr...

Connect the Spheres with the Coal Cycle

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Connect the Spheres with the Coal Cycle

Coal fueled the Industrial Revolution and, as a result, changed the course of human history. However, the geologic history of coal is much, much longe...

Tried and True: Physics fun with toy cars

Journal Article

Tried and True: Physics fun with toy cars

According to the National Science Education Standards, students should be able to describe an object by its position, direction of motion, and speed (...

Editor’s Roundtable: Cycles and connections

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Editor’s Roundtable: Cycles and connections

Most middle level students are too young to recognize on their own the complex relationships among the natural cycles. They seldom connect one cycle w...

Green Science: Banning the bottle

Journal Article

Green Science: Banning the bottle

Bottled water is ubiquitous, taken for granted, and seemingly benign. Americans are consuming bottled water in massive amounts and spending a lot of m...

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