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Inquiry, Argumentation, and the Phases of the Moon: Helping Students Learn Important Concepts and Practices

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Inquiry, Argumentation, and the Phases of the Moon: Helping Students Learn Important Concepts and Practices

An important goal of the current reform movement in science education is to promote scientific literacy in the United States, and scientific inquiry i...

Scope on Safety: Yes, you need a Chemical Hygiene Officer

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Scope on Safety: Yes, you need a Chemical Hygiene Officer

The Chemical Hygiene Officer's (CHO) role is absolutely critical in fostering and ensuring both chemical hygiene practices and the chemical hygiene pl...

Everyday Engineering: What Makes a Bic Click?

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Everyday Engineering: What Makes a Bic Click?

The ballpoint pen is an ideal example of simple engineering that we use everyday. But is it really so simple? The ballpoint pen is a remarkable combin...

Science Sampler: Eratosthenes visits middle school—Assessing the ability of students to work with models of the Earth

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Science Sampler: Eratosthenes visits middle school—Assessing the ability of students to work with models of the Earth

In the exciting, “out of this world” activity described here, students measure the Earth using meter sticks while measuring their shadows in two d...

Tried and True: Solar System in the Hallway

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Tried and True: Solar System in the Hallway

After studying phenomena related to the positions and motions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon, many students are familiar with the positional ordering of ...

Editor’s Roundtable: International Year of Astronomy

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Editor’s Roundtable: International Year of Astronomy

2009 has been designated the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) because it marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic observations of th...

Scope on the Skies: Tracking the messenger

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Scope on the Skies: Tracking the messenger

During April and May, the innermost planet, Mercury, will have its greatest apparition (morning or evening viewing opportunity) for the year as it gra...

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