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As teachers, one of our most important responsibilities is to help students develop dynamic and useful views of science. Using current issues to create learning experiences can help generate student interest in science and help students appreciate it...
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Safer Science: Building Safety Into Construction or Renovations
Designing a new science laboratory or renovating an existing one can be an exciting experience. Though science teachers may have a better understanding of laboratory needs than most administrators, many schools tend to limit or exclude them from the ...
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A major goal of education is to help learners store information in long-term memory and use that information on later occasions to effectively solve problems (Vockell 2010). Therefore, this author began to use the Rubik’s cube to help students lear...
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What is the difference between an x-ray, a CAT scan, and an MRI?...
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A Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels
A life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool used by engineers to make measurements of net energy, greenhouse gas production, water consumption, and other items of concern. This article describes an activity designed to walk students through the qualitati...
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For scientists, the sandbox serves as an analog for faulting in Earth’s crust. Here, the large, slow processes within the crust can be scaled to the size of a table, and time scales are directly observable. This makes it a useful tool for demonstra...