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Issues In-Depth: Making some bones about it

Journal Article

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...

Biotechnology in the Middle School Curriculum

Journal Article

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...

Science Sampler: The Mathematics/Science Housing program

Journal Article

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...

Scope on Safety: Debugging safely

Journal Article

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 ...

Moon Phase as a Context for Teaching Scale Factor

Journal Article

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...

Inertial Mass

Journal Article

Inertial Mass

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...

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