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Modeling Leeuwenhoek’s Tools With Disposable-Camera Microscopes

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Modeling Leeuwenhoek’s Tools With Disposable-Camera Microscopes

When students design and build their own versions of instruments, they appreciate them more—and are more likely to appreciate how experimentation pl...

Scope on the Skies: Focus on Uranus

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Scope on the Skies: Focus on Uranus

It wasn’t until 1781, when William Herschel aimed his six-inch reflecting telescope toward the skies, that our solar system quite literally doubled ...

Editor’s Roundtable: Don’t know much about history? You should!

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Editor’s Roundtable: Don’t know much about history? You should!

We should each examine our curriculum to make sure that we give ample time to the teaching of the history and nature of science. This issue of Scienc...

Science Sampler: Weaving women into the science curriculum

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Science Sampler: Weaving women into the science curriculum

Learning about great women in the sciences has the potential to impact mid-level students in a number of ways. These women and their work may serve as...

What’s in a Word? How Word Choice Can Develop (Mis)conceptions About the Nature of Science

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What’s in a Word? How Word Choice Can Develop (Mis)conceptions About the Nature of Science

Despite over 10 years of reform efforts, research still shows that students typically have inadequate conceptions of what science is and what scientis...

Science Sampler: Two heads

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Science Sampler: Two heads

This cooperative activity presents middle school students with the opportunity to explore and discover, as well as enjoy their own communications wit...

Teaching Science Using Stories: The Storyline Approach

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Teaching Science Using Stories: The Storyline Approach

Storytelling is an age-old and powerful means of communication that can be used as an effective teaching strategy in the science classroom. This artic...

Tried and True: Our class periodic table

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Tried and True: Our class periodic table

To facilitate discussions centered on the topic of chemistry, students can create a classroom periodic table. In order to accomplish this task, they r...

Launch Excitement with Water Rockets

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Launch Excitement with Water Rockets

Explosions and fires—these are what many students are waiting for in science classes. And when they do occur, students pay attention. While we can�...

Science Sampler: A first energy grant—Pinwheel electrical generation

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Science Sampler: A first energy grant—Pinwheel electrical generation

This is an interdisciplinary activity—with art, science, and math classes involved—where students design their own pinwheels, and then attach th...

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