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As teachers, we are given quite a list of duties to fulfill. It is tempting to take the easy way and plan your lessons for next week during your planning period. However, to be a truly dynamic teacher you must do more. In science, dynamic teachers ha...
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The Doherty Experience at SEA (Sea Education Association) is a three-week program that involves two sessions of preparatory classes ashore in nautical science and oceanography and concludes with a nine-day sea voyage. While at sea, the teachers are d...
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Forces at Work: The Top 5 Reasons for Belonging to a Professional Organization
Although we all interact within our classrooms and with our students all of the time, we also need the dynamic of peer interaction. This article describes the benefits of participating in a professional organization for science teachers, whether it b...
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As educators, we must be willing to reinvent our worlds as we learn new things; to re-examine our conceptions as we encounter new views; and to re-evaluate our own subjective interactions with the new material. As part of a pilot Earthwatch-Conservat...
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“If I ever get as burnt out as Mr. Jones down the hall,” commented a teacher I admire to a group of us novices, someone please tell me, and I will get out of teaching.” To avoid faring like “Mr. Jones,” read the following ideas to maintain ...
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A New Way of Looking at the World
The Global 200 represents a new science-based approach to setting priorities for conservation. At its core is a simple concept: If we conserve the broadest variety of the world’s habitats, we can conserve the broadest variety of the world’s speci...
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Debate is one methodology that encompasses the nature of science, science and technology in society, and the history of science and has been shown to enhance critical thinking (Hammerich, 1998). The ability to look at and analyze all evidence, then d...
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After the Bell: Where do we go next?
As teachers, we need to connect students’ informal mapping skills to formal mapping concepts that they can learn in school. An important way that school districts or teachers themselves can solve this dilemma is to integrate concepts of mapping int...
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Scope on the Skies: Exploring the Red Planet
The launch of the Mars Odyssey 2001 signaled the beginning of a revised plan for the robotic exploration of Mars, the Red Planet. NASA detailed an exploration plan that will span the next two decades. Using new and developing technologies, these inve...
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Genetics of Sesame Street<sup>TM</sup> Characters
By enlisting the of Elmo, Zoe, Grover, and friends, the author brought a genetics unit to life. In this week-long unit, the students (1) create a gene map for a particular Sesame Street character, (2) move the resulting chromosomes through the steps ...