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In this final “Ask the Experts” column, our own resident “expert” and Department Editor, Marc Rosner, addresses the following questions: • Why is chocolate bad for dogs? • Where does the color go when paper fades after sun exposure?...
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Structuring the Level of Inquiry in Your Classroom
As the upcoming school year approaches, many science teachers may be looking for new ways to incorporate inquiry in their classrooms. Fortunately, teachers have an array of inquiry activities at their fingertips. But with so many resources available,...
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Idea Bank: Measuring the Speed of Sound
The following physics lab activities are new versions of old experiments for measuring the speed of sound—what makes them new is their use of electronic interfacing, which can be exciting for students. Each activity addresses the National Science E...
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Schools in the United States are faced with an increasingly diverse student population and a dramatic increase in the number of English language learners (ELLs) in all grades. As such diverse populations grow in this era of high-stakes testing and ac...
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By connecting science learning to important societal issues, teachers can motivate students to both enjoy and engage in relevant science (Bennet, Lubben, and Hogarth 2007). To develop that connection, teachers can help students take an active role in...
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The Prepared Practitioner: Why Theories <em>Never</em> Become Laws
One of teaching’s challenges comes when the teacher communicates clearly and students appear to understand—but instead students ascribe different meanings to the words than intended by the teacher. This happens often when words have different mea...
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Career of the Month: An Interview With GIS Specialist Ronald Wilson
In October 2002, in the midst of the terrifying Washington D.C. sniper attacks, a team of specialists was asked to help search for the suspects. Independent of the official investigation, the team analyzed and mapped attack locations to identify wher...
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In a research collaboration with government biologists and university educators, K—12 students in the Cle Elum-Roslyn (CER) School District in eastern Washington are investigating where cougars go when their habitat gives way to new housing develop...
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Ask the Experts—April/May 2008
In this month’s column, the experts address the following questions: • How does temperature regulate the gender of sea turtles (and other organisms) as they incubate? Also, how can XX females become male turtles simply due to temperature lev...
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How Accurate Are Student-Collected Data?
The purpose of this study was to teach upper elementary and high school students to monitor two estuarine creeks using an adaptation of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Adopt-A-Stream protocol. Data collected by students were then compare...
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Idea Bank: Warming to Global Warming—Sunspots and Sea-Surface Temperature
In the problem-based laboratory activity described here, students evaluate the causality of changes on the solar surface in regard to climate change and warming in Earth’s environment. They use graphing calculators and real-time data from the inter...