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The Green Room: Introducing The Green Room!
Today, there is a lot out there about “going green”—in your car, at home, for your kids, yourself, your planet. But what about teaching green? In this new column, Amanda Beckrich explores ways to make your classroom, your teaching, and—hopefu...
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The New Teacher’s Toolbox: Teaching in the Digital Age
New technologies are engaging today’s students the way PowerPoint did a decade ago. The pressure to go digital can seem especially overwhelming to new teachers, but fear not! Teaching in the digital age is easier than you think. This month’s colu...
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Technology can be a powerful tool to increase motivation, engagement, and achievement (Park, Khan, and Petrina 2009). In this article, the authors describe their collaborative approach to integrating technology with a lab on bacterial transformation....
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Last year, the author of this month’s Idea Bank had his 11th-grade physics students in Shanghai, China work with students from Chicago, Illinois. Both sets of students were given a list of questions and problems and asked to work together via Skype...
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GENIQUEST is a cyberlearning computer program that allows students to investigate biological data using a research-based instructional model. In this article, the authors make the case for using cyberlearning to teach students about the rapidly growi...
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Safer Science: “Chemicals of Interest” and More
In the science classroom, developing security involves more than just looking up chemicals. Securing high school science laboratories, preparation rooms, and storerooms is an integral part of protecting schools and the general public from terrorist-t...
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Supporting Right-Brained Thinking
In his book, A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink champions the benefits of right-brained thinking: creativity, flexibility, empathy, and meaning. He stresses the need to not only be logical, but also aware of emotion; to not only be sequential, but also co...
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Audiologist Brian Fligor
Hearing is an important sense that many of us take for granted. Unless we are affected by hearing loss, we often do not think twice about listening to our favorite tunes or a neighbor’s conversation. Many things—from a viral infection to turning ...
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Electrospinning has been used to create nanofibers for filtration devices, tissue engineering, and protective clothing. Although electrospinning is now widely studied, because of the expensive equipment required and the advanced nature of this topic,...
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Imagine entering a new classroom and finding your lab materials in complete disarray. Broken bits of metal and shards of glass mirrors are interspersed among live, unlabeled radioactive sources. Splintered metersticks and oily beakers lie amidst bead...
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Science 2.0: GeoEverything—The Magic Carpet
Global Positioning System receivers (GPSr) are an indispensible classroom bridge between maps and the physical world as students go back and forth between projections and Earth. When using a GPSr, the spatial-relations skills students employ can help...
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Idea Bank: Explaining Biological Phenomena
In this Idea Bank, the author provides two classroom activities that integrate argumentation, explanation, and the use of evidence with biology content. The first example fits within an ecology unit; the second works well in one on evolution. These e...