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Scope on the Skies: No place like home
At a distance of 50.1 light years, the star 51 Pegasi represents an interesting milestone. When viewed today, the light you see from this star left th...
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Science Sampler: Taking steps to understand geologic time
Getting students to understand the concept of geologic time is challenging because it is difficult to imagine the vast time frame of Earth’s history...
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While most would agree wholeheartedly with the benefits of getting students out more, there are numerous challenges in doing so, ranging from shrinkin...
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Editor’s Roundtable: Developing inquiry skills
Inquiry skills cannot be taught in only one grade or taught only at the start of the year; and they cannot be taught by having students memorize a set...
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Science Sampler: Engendering inquiry
There is a tendency to underestimate the abilities of students to conduct inquiry due to both inferred and actual student restrictions in the traditio...
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Injecting Inquiry Into Photosynthesis Investigations
This is the story of how a typical middle school lab was transformed into an open-ended inquiry experience through a few small, but very powerful, cha...
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Teacher’s Toolkit: A blueprint for cultivating inquiry
Scientific inquiry, a methodology that can trace its roots back to the time and teachings of Socrates, has been an elusive and evolving part of our ed...
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Tried and True: Helicopter seeds and hypotheses … that’s funny!
Investigating maple samaras, or helicopter seeds, can give students a “that’s funny” experience and catalyze the development of inquiry skills. ...
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The West Point Bridge Design (WPBD) building project engages students in project-based learning by giving them a real-life problem to solve. By using ...
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Developing the Essential Features of Inquiry
This lesson can be used at the beginning of the year to teach students how to conduct inquiries using the essential features described in Inquiry and ...
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Science Sampler: How many lefties in our classroom?
Probability sampling is an interdisciplinary math and science skill that often serves as the precursor to conducting scientific research. This article...
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Bernoulli’s Principle: Science as a Human Endeavor
What do the ideas of Daniel Bernoulli—an 18th-century Swiss mathematician, physicist, natural scientist, and professor—and your students’ next l...
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Science Sampler: Caution! Scientists in the making
Equipping students with knowledge, skills, attitudes, and habits of mind necessary to design investigative questions is an essential goal for any scie...