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The Prepared Practitioner: Groundwater—A Green Issue
This issue’s theme—“Going Green”—relates to environmental education. In an article published in the Journal of Science Teacher Education, Dickerson and colleagues (2007) discuss issues related to the lack of groundwater education in school ...
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Idea Bank: Two Green Thumbs Up!
Teaching with movie clips is one strategy to increase student understanding of environmental science. Whether accurate or not, “movie science” can expose students to phenomena that are difficult to explore in the typical classroom. In addition, a...
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Investigating Aquatic Dead Zones
This article features two engaging high school activities that include current scientific information, data, and authentic case studies. The activities address the physical, biological, and chemical processes that are associated with oxygen-depleted ...
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The Ocean, Reefs, Aquariums, Literacy, and Stewardship (CORALS) research program helps students connect global environmental issues to local concerns and personal choices. During the 18-week program, students strengthen their understanding of coral r...
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Safer Science: NSTA Portal to Science Safety
The National Science Teachers Association’s (NSTA) Science Safety Advisory Board recently launched the Safety in the Science Classroom portal. This portal serves as a gateway to safety resources for teachers, supervisors, and administrators. It als...
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Idea Bank: Climate Change Inquiries
How can students engage in authentic inquiry on global climate change if they are not able to do the actual experiments? Many questions about climate change emerge over large areas and long periods of time. The good news is that much of the data from...
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Laboratory Notebooks in the Science Classroom
Lab notebooks provide students with authentic science experiences as they become active, practicing scientists. Teachers gain insight into students’ understanding of science content and processes, while students create a lasting personal resource. ...
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Idea Bank: Content Reading in Science Class
Science education depends on literacy. But adding reading to a curriculum that is already packed with content, experiments, and activities can be tough. So how can a teacher accomplish this, while ensuring that students have multiple opportunities fo...
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As science teachers at a suburban California high school, the authors were concerned about the lab report conclusions written by their upper-level chemistry, biology, and ecology students—which were consistently of poor quality. Their work lacked i...
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Medical Diagnostics Scientist Bernhard Weigl
Medical diagnostics help us evaluate a range of disorders, such as cancer and infectious diseases. In the United States and other developed countries, doctors have access to advanced equipment and laboratories that provide reliable diagnoses. As a re...
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Safer Science: Lab Fire Extinguishers—Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
When renovations or new construction occur, fire extinguishers sometimes get lost in the mix. Unfortunately, whether to save money or because the fire code is misinterpreted, some schools do not install fire extinguishers in laboratories and other ar...