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Repairing Femoral Fractures: A Model Lesson in Biomaterial Science

Biomaterial science is a rapidly growing field that has scientists and doctors searching for new ways to repair the body. A merger between medicine and engineering, biomaterials can be complex subject matter, and it can certainly capture the minds of...

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Nanomedicine: Problem Solving to Treat Cancer

Students rarely have the opportunity to delve into the unknown and brainstorm solutions to cutting-edge, unsolved science problems that affect thousands of people. To counter this trend, the following activity was developed to expose students to issu...

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Science Sampler: Catapulting into technological design

Unleash your students' interest in technological design by implementing this exciting, hands-on activity into your science curriculum. In this activity, students explore levers by designing and building a working catapult. Each catapult is tested for...

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Editor's Roundtable: Classroom benefit of being bionic!

The National Science Education Standards indicate that “technology as design is included in the Standards as parallel to science as inquiry.” As a result, this issue of Science Scope contains a collection of design and construction activiti...

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Teacher’s Toolkit: Helping middle school students with learning disabilities pass the federally mandated science tests—Science instruction, study skills, and test-taking strategies

Since the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2002, and the amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 2004, the majority of students with learning disabilities take science courses as part of the general-education middle ...

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The CSI Effect: Changing The Face of Science

Until recently, the vast majority of female student images of scientists were versions of white males working alone in laboratory settings (Barman et al. 1997). As a result, the authors asked the question, “What phenomenon is responsible for the re...

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Scope on Safety: Waste not, want not

Planning chemical use and disposal is critical to a safe laboratory environment. It is irresponsible to simply go out and purchase laboratory chemicals without considering why they are needed and how they will be disposed of when they are no longer n...