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Tried and True: Balloons and Newton's Third Law
This constructivist adaptation of the classic balloon-on-a-string exploration leads students to investigate Newton's third law: for every action force there is an equal and opposite reaction force. This hands-on, minds-on activity leads students to...
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Science Sampler: To heat or not to heat
As part of a lesson on heat transfer, middle school students design their own investigation of conduction, insulation, and convection....
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Tech Trek: Science research on the Internet
Young students often get frustrated when trying to find useful information on the Internet for school purposes and end up jumping from one point of interest to another, keeping little focus on the task at hand. To help students achieve success in the...
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Did you know that whenever you take a walk in the rain, you have a close encounter with extraterrestrial material? Our atmosphere contains small, microscopic bits of matter called micrometeorites. When scientists study these tiny invaders, they use s...
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Making Science Accessible: Strategies to Meet the Needs of a Diverse Student Population
Despite the sincere interest of many teachers to address the varying educational needs of their students (Scruggs and Mastropieri 1994), the current emphasis on inclusion remains a source of frustration, misunderstanding, and distrust by some teacher...
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The importance of environmental influences outside of school has been the focus of numerous studies that support the home’s influence on science learning. Students who come from homes primed with experiences that parallel curriculum are able to imm...
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Investigations in the Science of Sports
The Sisters in Sport Science (SISS) program addresses the need for girls to gain equitable access to science and mathematics education by using sport as a vehicle for learning. Through sport, not only are girls learning the underlying principles of s...
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Often, a bright planet that is visible over the horizon will be mistaken for a star. Some believe they can tell the difference between a star and a planet because stars twinkle, or scintillate, and planets do not. In actuality however, both will twin...