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Science Sampler: Engineering-A-Future for tomorrow's young women
Engineering-A-Future (EAF) is an outreach program for middle school age girls. Through a collaborative effort of the Colleges of Engineering and Education at Tennessee Tech University (TTU), the participants experience hands-on activities to foster a...
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Science Sampler: Thinking about students' questions
Asking questions is a vital component in any classroom, but it is absolutely essential in a science classroom. As science teachers, we know that questioning plays a major role in the inquiry process and has a positive impact on students' learning. Th...
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Science Sampler: Engineering in the classroom
In an effort to educate students about engineering, teachers in the Bowling Green, Kentucky, area challenged their students to become engineers. Students were given the tools they needed to design, create, and race a vehicle constructed from plastic ...
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Scope on the Skies: Eclipse cycles
The Moon's orbit around the Sun with the Earth brings it into position twice each month for an eclipse at new Moon and at full Moon. However, we do not have an eclipse pair each month, nor do we have an eclipse every two weeks. In this issue of Scope...
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Get a Grip! A Middle School Engineering Challenge
Investigating the field of engineering offers the opportunity for interdisciplinary, hands-on, inquiry-based units that integrate real-world applications; yet, many K-12 students are not exposed to engineering until they enter college. Get a Grip! is...
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Teacher's Toolkit: No Child Left Behind -- What does this mean to middle school science teachers?
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 is the historic education reform effort that President Bush proposed his first week in office, which Congress passed into law on January 8, 2002. NCLB reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
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Star Wars: The name alone implies action, adventure, the vastness of space, alien creatures, and of course, who can forget light sabers? Since the Star Wars saga has entertained millions of people around the world for years, the author decided to...
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Shampoo, Soy Sauce, and the Prince's Pendant: Density for Middle-Level Students
This article describes a series of activities that are designed to clear up common student misconceptions regarding the difficult concepts of mass and density at the middle-level. Concept development, problem solving, design, measurement, and quantit...