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Science Sampler: The science of skin color

For many teachers of life science, one of the favorite parts of the curriculum is the unit on heredity. Students love to discover how and from whom th...

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Science Sampler: Modeling the effects of drugs on the brain

The following activity teaches students about the neurobiological consequences of drug use on their brains and behavior. Students make clay models tha...

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Editor’s Roundtable: Health Literacy

In his 2003 testimony, the Surgeon General called for combating the obesity epidemic in America by increasing health literacy among our citizens, and ...

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Tried and True: Making the connection—Addressing students’ misconceptions of circuits

Electricity is an abstract phenomenon that students interact with every day. Interestingly enough, many eighth-grade students do not fully understand ...

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Science Sampler: You can learn a lot from your dog

Recently, dogs have been the focus of a great deal of scientific research. In fact, dogs were the inspiration for Professor Bruce Blumberg’s class, ...

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Scope on the Skies: Neptune—The planet exterior to Uranus

This month, the three most outer planets—Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune—and one of the larger dwarf planets, Pluto, will be in the evening skies aft...

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Extra! Extra! Learn All about It

Communication and reporting of findings to peers are important to middle school students. One way to capitalize on students’ interests and incorpora...

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Issues In-Depth: The pet food recall puzzle—Who, what, why, and how much?

Last spring, North America was gripped in the largest pet food recall in history. News outlets reported tens of thousands of dogs and cats becoming il...