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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 national standards by implementing the following water-bottle rocket activity into your physical science...
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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, explored caves, prepared competition projects, and visited museums and science centers to learn about E...
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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 from Horizon Research, Inc. (HRI)--a research firm specializing in science and mathematics education--...
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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'...students possess a great deal of knowledge that hides a great deal of understanding." This article...
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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 comprehend textual information and write competently about the subject under study. To achieve literacy ...
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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 month you and your students can follow the Moon and the Earth as the two orbit together around the Sun...
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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 success on measures of achievement as well as success in the worlds of science, technology, engineering...
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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 even in the most controlled environments. So, the best thing you can do to protect yourselves and you...
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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 child's success, communication between teachers and parents is essential. By following the simple st...
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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 about what was happening in the science classroom? By using simple software, students can plan, sho...
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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 season, and then shift to the predawn skies during the latter half of summer. Be sure to catch the array ...
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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 opportunities to teach students about several science concepts and the nature of scientific investigati...
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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 teacher and art teacher. Although they were initially apprehensive, this formidable force realized th...