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Spill Sleuths: An Interdisciplinary Environmental Health Investigation
An environmental health mystery can help teach students many aspects of environmental health and crisis management in the context of their own communi...
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Science Sampler: Strategies to increase active discussion and thinking for all students
How many times have you expected to hold an exciting class discussion after a laboratory activity or demonstration only to have just one or two studen...
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If only Humpty-Dumpty had known about the egg bungee jump... This engaging activity helps students experience science in a constructivist, inquiry-or...
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Science Sampler: Formative assessment guideposts
A formative assessment can provide a snapshot of what a student knows and is able to do. Use this approach to close the gap between what is known and ...
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After the bell: Mapping your way to geographic awareness: Part II
Students experience, through simulation, the skills that are required of a cartographer in this activity that integrates literature, history, and scie...
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Linking Classroom Instruction and Assessment to Standardized Testing
Is it possible to "teach to the test" and still include inquiry-based science in your classroom? Yes! By using the model presented in this article tha...
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Editor's Roundtable: Where are we now? (January 2005)
Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), two major international studies of achiev...
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Popping the Kernel: Modeling the States of Matter
Constructing models can help students understand the particulate nature of matter. This article discusses how to use popcorn to engage students in mod...
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Science Sampler: Pictures in the sky
This "stellar" project helps students think in both two and three dimensions, displays the relative distances between the Earth and stars, and introdu...
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Tried and true: Feeding of Diarmis Proboscis
The feeding of Diarmis proboscis is an exciting outdoor laboratory activity that demonstrates a single concept of adaptations--cryptic colorations. Th...
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Questioning Cycle: Making Students' Thinking Explicit During Scientific Inquiry
Are you thinking about ways to get your students to think about science? Inquiry learning is an excellent way for students to get actively involved in...
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Scope on the Skies: January in the skies
Celestial events abound during the month of January, ranging from a potentially bright comet, visible planets in both the morning and evening skies, a...