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Issues In-Depth: Making some bones about it
While most people regard bone as a static entity in our body, this is a serious misconception and one that should be corrected early because bone heal...
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Biotechnology in the Middle School Curriculum
Biotechnology is a fairly new concept for middle school students as well as teachers. If the latest craze of TV shows focused on crime scene investiga...
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Science Sampler: The Mathematics/Science Housing program
The National Middle School Association (1999) has identified transition programs, interdisciplinary teaming, and varied instruction as three of the fi...
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Scope on Safety: Debugging safely
The hazards of pests in the classroom are numerous. Mice can contaminate food and supplies and trigger asthma attacks, cockroaches can cause allergic ...
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Moon Phase as a Context for Teaching Scale Factor
The Sun and the Moon are our most visible neighbors in space, yet their distance and size relative to the Earth are often misunderstood. Science textb...
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The inertial balance is one device that can help students to quantify the quality of inertia—a body’s resistance to a change in movement—in more...