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Science Sampler: Giants don’t exist in the real world—Challenges of teaching scale and structure
Issues that relate to the unifying theme of scale, as defined by the National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996) and Science for All Americans (AA...
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The United States has a significant deficit in the number of university students choosing to major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematic...
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Editor’s Roundtable: All things great and small
Middle level students often demonstrate limited familiarity with extremes, whether in distance, time, temperature, speed, or size: and they can have p...
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Quarked!TMAdventures in the Subatomic Universe is a free, educational website developed by a team of physicists, educators, and designers at the Unive...
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Tried and True: How old? Tested and trouble-free ways to convey geologic time
Geologic time, or the time frame of our planet’s history, is several orders of magnitude greater than general human understanding of “time.” Whe...
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Scope on the Skies: Urban Legends
Urban legends become widespread from people simply not asking “Are you sure?” or looking into the topic and learning more before making a decision...
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Everyday Engineering: Holiday blinkers
Many examples of engineering go unnoticed because they are so much a part of our daily lives that we rarely give them much thought. When you decorate ...
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Millennials are the generation born from 1982–2002, and they are in your middle school classroom today. Some people have referred to them as the iGe...
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This article describes how our common addiction to cell phones was used to launch a discussion about their use, impacts on the environment, and connec...
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Everyday Engineering: Time’s up, turkey—Pop-up thermometers
Meat thermometers can be awkward to use in terms of placement and avoidance of bones. Because of these problems, each year 30 million Thanksgiving tur...
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Scope on Safety: Signs of safer science
Can you imagine trying to put out a fire and finding the fire extinguisher? Experiencing a short circuit and having to search for the master electrica...