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Journal Article

When most people think of hazardous waste, they generally think of materials used in construction, the defense industry, mining, manufacturing, and agriculture. Few people think of hazardous substances found in their homes. From flammable cleaning p...

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Science Sampler: Growth Potential

Students will enjoy carrying out this exciting and challenging research project that combines science with computers and mathematics to investigate how polyacrylate animals change in size over time when placed in water and aqueous salt solutions. The...

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Science Sampler: Dilution, Concentration, and Flotation

Classroom teaching practice and literature show that many students have difficulties with science concepts such as density. These investigations identify the relationship between density and floating through experimenting with successive dilution of ...

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Science Sampler: The eight-step method to great group work

Many science teachers already understand the importance of cooperative learning in the classroom and during lab exercises. However, many teachers shy away from group work because of the challenges associated with getting adolescents into groups that ...

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Science Sampler: Representing Variability of Data

Measures of central tendency--mean, median, and mode--are often used as descriptive statistics when students conduct experiments in which they take repeated measures of the dependent variable or when class data are pooled for analysis. These measures...

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Scope on Safety: The Eyes Have It, or Do They?

Laboratory accidents and near misses in schools are often caused by the lack of personal equipment, such as eye protection. Sophisticated acids and other corrosive chemicals are not the only substances that put eyes in jeopardy. A household item as s...

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Watershed Investigations

Investigating local watersheds presents middle school students with authentic opportunities to engage in inquiry and address questions about their immediate environment in an interdisciplinary context. This article describes a collabortive project de...