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Editor’s Corner: Create and Innovate!
Just as changes in music delivery have radically altered the music business, dramatic changes in the workplace have required rethinking the way our schools work. To develop 21st-century skills, we must create classrooms that foster creativity and enc...
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The New Teacher’s Toolbox: Conquering the “So What Now?” Moment
The first years of teaching can be tough: Getting to know a new school, new students, and what really works in the classroom can be a lot to handle! In this new column, Michael Romano shares some insight from his first years of teaching—and some ti...
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Message from the NSTA President: Imagine and Invent—Create a Great Future
The time is right for an emphasis on imagination and innovativeness in science education, both in students and in teachers. Change now dominates our economy and culture, and can only be realized through imagination and creativeness. Therefore, our ne...
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It is no secret that many high school students are fascinated with automobiles. The activities in Fueling the Car of Tomorrow—a free high school science curriculum, available online—(see “On the web”)—capitalize on this heightened awareness...
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Students—and just about everyone else—tend to have a wide range of misconceptions about microbes. This article is aimed at changing how students view microbes by engaging them in two hands-on activities that are fun and creative and align with bo...
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From Generation to Generation: Oral Histories of Scientific Innovations From the 20th Century
The 20th century saw some of the most important technological and scientific discoveries in the history of humankind. The space shuttle, the internet, and other modern advances changed society forever, and yet many students cannot imagine what life w...
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No matter what I tell my students, they insist it’s safe to go to the tanning salon. What are the real effects of tanning beds?...
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Idea Bank: Putting the “Science” in “Science Fiction”
As practitioners, it can be difficult to incorporate reading and writing into the science classroom. Although linking science fiction to relevant research is hardly a new idea (Pierce 2001; ReadWriteThink 2009; Raham 2004), helping students learn to ...
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Editor’s Corner: The History of Science, in Real Life
Students sometimes think of the history of science as the dry recounting of the lives of long-dead scientists like Antoine Lavoisier and Isaac Newton. But today’s older generations arguably witnessed history’s most remarkable period of scientific...
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Idea Bank: Start the Year Off Green!
With summer upon us, now is a good time to think about incorporating green practices in the year ahead. This Idea Bank presents a few tips to help decrease your classroom waste, increase recycling, and make students more knowledgeable about green pra...
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Frontloading Classroom Management
In this article, the authors describe a systematic approach to planning for the first days of school that is appropriate for today’s demanding high school science classrooms. These strategies apply to any science subject and benefit student teacher...
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Generate an Argument: An Instructional Model
The Generate an Argument instructional model was designed to engage students in scientific argumentation. By using this model, students develop complex reasoning and critical-thinking skills, understand the nature and development of scientific knowle...
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What better way to spend a sunny summer day than surfing—the web, that is! With so many web 2.0 applications out there, it’s hard to know what’s really useful. In this month’s column, the authors share some of their favorite free sites for ed...