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Crystals are beautiful structures—yet they occur naturally in dirty and remote places. In the inquiry-based activity described here, students will e...
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Patent Attorney-in-Training Peter Brown
From money-making inventions we think of in the middle of the night to scientific breakthroughs discovered in labs, patents help us protect our origin...
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This article presents a model of collaborative inquiry for groups of science teachers who want to systematically improve their practice through analys...
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A New Twist on “Mystery Boxes”
In the activity described in this article, students learn about observation, interpretation, and argumentation. Students are led through several stage...
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Commentary: Seven Steps to Teaching With Inquiry
Science is more than a collection of facts—it is a way of thinking and exploring our world that leads to understanding about what is happening aroun...
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Safer Science: Sun Safety—The Stats
Science teachers can help protect themselves and their students by providing information on skin cancer, its causes, and prevention strategies. This i...
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Urologist Chad DeRosa
The organs, tubes, muscles, and nerves that work together to create, store, and carry urine make up the urinary system. Urologists are surgeons that f...
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Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) is an instructional model that enables science teachers to transform a traditional laboratory activity into a short inte...
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Many students have recently asked about the “swine flu.” How is it different than the seasonal flu, what are the symptoms, and what can we do to a...