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The Green Room: The Green Chemistry Laboratory
When it comes to making chemistry labs greener, there are two overarching goals: to reduce the consumption of energy and resources and reduce the prod...
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Model-Based Inquiry (MBI) is an emergent instructional strategy that is gaining acceptance among science educators. This approach to learning realisti...
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Since 2008, several digital cameras have offered high-speed movie settings that allow video to be captured at 120 to 1,000 frames per second. That mea...
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This summer, the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico unfolded with more drama than a summer blockbuster. America was riveted by a deadly expl...
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Editor’s Corner: Inquiring Minds
Regular readers of The Science Teacher (TST) may have noticed a lot of articles on scientific inquiry and notable among TST articles on inquiry are Be...
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In the lesson presented in this article, students learn to organize their thinking and design their own inquiry experiments through careful observatio...
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One way to advance inquiry in the classroom is to establish a systematic strategy for reflecting on our practice and our students’ readiness to enga...
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Exploring Osmosis and Diffusion in Cells
Guided inquiry is an instructional technique that requires students to answer a teacher-proposed research question, design an investigation, collect a...
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Science Pipes: A World of Data at Your Fingertips
A new online tool called Science Pipes allows students to conduct biodiversity investigations. With this free tool, students create and run analyses t...
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Medical Physicist John Winston
You have probably heard that radiation is used to combat cancer, but might be wondering how exactly this works. X-rays deposit a specified dose of hig...
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Self-regulated learning (SRL) encourages students to learn using metacognition, strategic action, and motivation. This nontraditional approach to educ...
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For this issue’s “New Web Tools and Technology” theme, the authors thought it appropriate to showcase one innovative web project in depth. Ben W...
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Editor’s Corner: New Tools for Learning
Technology has the potential to transform science education through online social network collaboration, satellite navigation and imaging, field and l...