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Journal Article

This article features a simple game that can help students understand the nature of heat transfer through conduction....

Journal Article

Tech Trek: Ready to navigate—Classroom GPS applications

The potential for enriched science instruction using GPS is virtually unlimited. An inexpensive GPS unit can help students prepare for the national and global dynamics of the twenty-first century, GPS models and applications are discussed....

Journal Article

Scope on the Skies: Orbits and distances

In this article, learn how astronomers determine a planet's orbit and its distance from its sun....

Journal Article

Science Sampler: Canals in the curriculum—A model of integration and inquiry

Approaches to science education through integrated studies are ideal ways to meet the diverse needs of students, as well as the spirit of science reform. This article presents a canal study as a great way to accomplish this....

Journal Article

Envision: Inquiry-Based Environmental Science

Team up with scientists and other teachers to develop inquiry-based research projects. This article describes the Envision program, which allows teachers to design and conduct their own environmental investigations. Teachers become students of the in...

Journal Article

Turf Protecting Toxins

Allelopathy is a naturally occurring process by which chemicals produced by a plant have a detrimental effect on competing plants. This activity explores how trees protect their limited resource through chemical warfare....