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Scope on Safety: Dust off your safety procedures
The National Air Pollution Central Administration estimates that over 43 million tons of dust falls on the United States yearly. Now, add to the dust and dirt scenario the exposures in a laboratory environment (such as hazardous chemical vapors, part...
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Adapting to the Deep Sea: A Fun Activity with Bioluminescence
The deepest parts of the oceans are currently the focus of many new discoveries in both the physical and biological sciences. Middle school students find the deep sea fascinating and especially seem to enjoy its mysterious and "spooky" side. Bring th...
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Science Sampler: Light in the media spotlight
Movies, music, cartoons, comics, popular literature, and internet websites are all powerful resources for science teachers. Collectively, these media transform words from a textbook into reference points for understanding a complex world. This articl...
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Editor's Roundtable: Creative connections
By integrating creative projects into their instruction, science teachers have the opportunity to awaken "creative expression and knowledge into their students." This month’s Editor’s Roundtable column highlights the articles in this issue of Sci...
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Tried and True: How the brain visually perceives the world
The eyes are said to be the "mirror of the soul" or similiar to the "lens of a camera." Have you ever wondered how such a small feature of our anatomy can have such a big impact on our abilities to perceive the world around us? These classic activiti...
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Helping Students Write About Science Without Plagiarizing
Most students don't plagiarize just because they are lazy. Most of them simply do not know how to write about science. As teachers, we can use planning strategies to help make some of the process of writing automatic, which frees working memory to fo...
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Using Interactive Science Notebooks for Inquiry-Based Science
Tired of finding students' work overflowing from the garbage can on the last day of school? Try using an Interactive Science Notebook approach to help students make connections to their learning. This approach emphasizes the process of focusing, expl...
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Send Your Students to MARS for Their Next Research Project
Alleviate the fear often associated with research papers through this interdisciplanary project that incorporates community support and technology into a fascinating discovery of the planet Mars....
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Instead of having students read about biomes in a textbook, why not have them become expert biogeographers? Once students have learned what a biogeographer does through an on-line search, they will take on the role as expert biogeographer. In this hy...
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Partners in Crime: Integrating Forensic Science and Writing
Partners is Crime is a project-based initiative, funded by various sources, including the Toyota Tapestry grant, which strives to keep education interesting while closing the achievement gap through collaborations with other teachers and members of t...
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Scope on the Skies: Solar system update
Our knowledge of the solar system and of orbital dynamics has undergone some changes as telescope technology improved. This month's Scope on the skies discusses the newest developments within the solar system and redefines the meaning of the word "pl...
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The Bermuda Triangle is famous for the unexplained disappearances of ships and aircraft, and for strange meteorological phenomena that allegedly have occurred within its boundaries. The following activity asks students to create their own geographica...
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Tech Trek: Wordsmiths on the web
Based on authors Bob Tierney and John Dorroh's practical suggestions for promoting student writing and the learning of science, this column highlights a variety of websites that involve students in similar activities designed to help them become bett...
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Creating Deep Time Diaries: An English/Earth Science Unit for Middle School Students
Students love a good story. We all do. That's why incorporating literary fiction that parallels teaching goals and standards can be so effective. In the interdisciplinary, thematic six-week unit described here, the fictional book The Deep Time Diarie...