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Yes! We are Rocket Scientists!
Launch your middle school students' interest, incorporate hands-on/minds-on learning, and focus on inquiry learning while still meeting state and nati...
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Be A Citizen Scientist! Celebrate Earth Science Week 2006
During Earth Science Week (October 8-14, 2006), millions of citizen scientists world-wide sampled groundwater, monitored weather, toured quarries, exp...
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Investigating Students' Ideas About Plate Tectonics
As part of a project designed to develop, among other tools, an assessment for measuring middle school understanding in plate tectonics, researches fr...
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Score One for Alternative Assessment
"What conventional testing hides is the enormous misunderstanding that many students have about things the generic standardized tests say they 'know'....
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Unlocking Reading Comprehension with Key Science Inquiry Skills
As secondary science teachers, we must remember that scientific literacy cannot be attained without fundamental literacy--the ability to read and comp...
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Our Moon, Luna, will be the focus of the Scope on the Skies columns for this coming school year. Data and information will be provided so that each mo...
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Teacher's Toolkit: Toolkit for improving practice
In a standards-based climate, it is important for teachers to know that they are addressing the concepts and skills that will prepare students for suc...
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Scope on Safety: Proactive safety
Horrifying stories of accidents in the science lab abound. You may think that such accidents could never happen in your lab, but accidents do happen e...
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After the Bell - The middle school connection: Fostering alliances with parents
What is the number one fear of most teachers? According to national polls, it's talking to parents! Because parental involvement is a key factor in a ...
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Science Sampler: Making movies in the classroom
When you overhear students talking excitedly about video games, the internet, television, or movies, do you ever wish that they could get that excited...
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Scope on the Skies: Summer planet watch
This summer, all but one of the bright planets will be easily visible as evening planets during the first part of our Northern Hemisphere summer seaso...
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Science Sampler: Teaching science using the movie Apollo 13
For over 40 years the space program has inspired students of science and engineering. The movie Apollo 13, about the third lunar mission, provides opp...
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The value of art education and its natural tie-in with science promted a principle of a middle school to encourage collaboration between his science t...