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Safer Science: Safer Administrative Procedures
How often are your eyewash stations flushed? Do all of your school’s science labs have a direct line of communication with the front office and outs...
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Editor’s Corner: Doing Science With PBS
Project-based science (PBS) is finding a place in more and more secondary school science programs as teachers discover its power to engage students an...
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“It was helpful to keep track of questions we had at the beginning so we knew what we were trying to find out.” With these words, a student descri...
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Idea Bank: Performance-Based Assessment
Performance-based assessment is appropriate to use in a project-based, problem-based, or inquiry-based science classroom because it is consistent with...
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A student recently asked me about the bird flu. Is it still a threat?...
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Invasive species, commonly known as “invasives,” are nonnative plants, animals, and microbes that completely take over and change an established e...
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Idea Bank: Science in Politics
All teachers face the classic struggle of convincing students that material learned in class is important and relevant. However, science teachers are ...
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In this article, the authors describe their ongoing experience with the Herpetology Project. Through this field study, students catch and track amphib...
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One way of implementing project-based science (PBS) is to use problem-based learning (PBL), in which students formulate their own problems. These prob...
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Understanding how geckos—small lizards belonging to the family Gekkonindae—can “defy gravity” and walk across a ceiling provides a fascinating...
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Aeronautical Engineer Paul Moller
Engineers are inventors, designers, and creators—they apply science, math, and imagination to make dreams a reality. As they work to craft technical...