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Science Sampler: A project-based environmental unit for teaching content through inquiry
Recent science education reform efforts for adolescents have attempted to engage students in science by using project-based instruction (Rivet and Kra...
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Home Sweet Home: How to Build a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Habitat Out of Recycled Materials
Madagascar hissing cockroaches (MHC) are amazing insects that can be an integral part of an effective science learning and teaching environment. MHCs ...
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The Adventures of the Gray Whale: An Integrated Approach to Learning About the Long Migration
Using migration as a springboard, students can begin to understand patterns of survival and interdependence that exist within nature, as well as human...
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Tried and True: Soil is more than just dirt
This article describes a series of activities in which students investigate soil, culminating in the biomimicry of reducing landfill waste. After stud...
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Science Sampler: Smelling the chocolate—The Perks of modeling habit of mind
Branston, a sixth-grade urban charter school student, used scientific habits of mind to explain a real event. This was due to a series of lessons that...
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Everyday Engineering: A little flash (of) light
The flashlight is a simple device that is composed of a lightbulb, usually two cells connected in series, a housing, a switch, and a reflector for the...
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Classroom Terraria: Enhancing Student Understanding of Plant-Related Gas Processes
Despite our best teaching efforts, many students hold misconceptions related to the roles plants play in gas-related processes (Amir and Tamir 1994; H...
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Science Sampler: Bringing scientific inquiry alive using real grass shrimp research
This lesson was developed for middle school students using actual research on grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) to illustrate the process of a scienti...
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In the first months of 2009, the International Year of Astronomy, the authors developed an educational project for middle-level students connected wit...
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Green Science: Investigating green—Creating surveys to answer questions
Being green means different things to different people. Some suggest that being green means saving energy, not wasting paper towels, going solar, harn...
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Scope on Safety: Battery safety basics
Batteries commonly used in flashlights and other household devices produce hydrogen gas as a product of zinc electrode corrosion. The amount of gas pr...