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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? I...
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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 n...
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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 des...
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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. Bo...
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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 ...
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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 roo...
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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 stresse...
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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...
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Electrospinning has been used to create nanofibers for filtration devices, tissue engineering, and protective clothing. Although electrospinning is no...
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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 intersperse...
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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 bet...
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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 conten...