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Editor’s Corner: A Look Back (2008)
The end of the year is always a time for reflection and looking back. Even though December may feel more like midyear for teachers, the end of the calendar year inevitably brings top 10 lists, reviews of the best the year had to offer, and vows for i...
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Astronomer/Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman
How did the first galaxies form? How old are the oldest stars? Much of the universe remains uncharted territory. As astronomers study the abundance of celestial objects and phenomena outside Earth’s atmosphere, they constantly make discoveries that...
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Teachers and students alike deal with certain levels of anxiety. But how much is too much, and what can students do to cope? ...
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The Prepared Practitioner: Making Inquiry Successful
In general, moving from structured to guided to open inquiry means increasing student thinking and responsibility—at the highest level, students come up with questions to investigate, figure out how to answer those questions, decide what to observe...
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The algebraic concepts and major ideas that govern Newton’s laws of motion can often be a challenge for the majority of ninth-grade students. Therefore, to make learning these concepts less task-oriented and more enjoyable, the author developed les...