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Journal Article

Scope on the Skies: Out with the old and in with the new

Spring in the Northern Hemisphere is not only a transition between seasons; it is also a transition between the brighter starry winter skies and the relatively dimmer skies of the spring season. Our solar system is also going through a transition fro...

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Using Citizen Scientists to Measure the Effects of Ozone Damage on Native Wildflowers

Since 2004, middle and high school students have been monitoring the effects of ground-level ozone by collecting data on observable leaf injury on cutleaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) and crownbeard (Verbesina occidentalis) in the Great Smokey Mo...

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Science Sampler: Fix the potholes! Helping students translate their interests and life experiences into scientific investigations

One strategy for differentiating science instruction that shows promise is a shift toward valuing students’ questions and life experiences (Barton 1998; Upadhyay 2006). In this article, the authors present potential techniques for doing exactly tha...

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Teacher’s Toolkit: Presto! Open inquiry!

Although inquiry-based science teaching has been around since the 1960s, many teachers are slow to incorporate inquiry principles into their science lessons. The authors address this issue by using an analogy between a magician’s card trick and op...

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Editor’s Roundtable: An air of respectability

Hold up an open container without any obvious liquid or solid in it and ask a typical class what’s in the container, and you will readily and enthusiastically get the response, “Nothing.” Out of sight, out of mind is a fair summation of how mos...