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Ionic bonding is a fundamental topic in high school chemistry, yet it continues to be a concept that students struggle to understand. Even if they und...
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Teaching the anatomy of the muscle system to high school students can be challenging. Students often learn about muscle anatomy by memorizing informat...
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This article presents an engaging activity in which high school students use a dichotomous key to guide the creation and classification of model insec...
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Reflections on Czech Science Teaching
International comparisons help us explore the assumptions made about U.S. schools, students, and pedagogy. That is why the author decided to spend fiv...
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Teaching Science to Students from Rural Mexico
George Roberts has been teaching ninth-grade Earth science in Gardston, Iowa, for 10 years. This year, as chair of the Gardston High School’s scienc...
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Using Japanese Lesson Design to ANTicipate an Invasion on Maui
Native ant species do not exist on the island of Maui, the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands. However, one ant, the little fire ant (LFA or Wasma...
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Commentary: Looking Back—A Nation at Risk and National Standards
Looking back, we were a nation at risk in the early 1980s, and, looking around, we still are. As the pace of global change and technological innovatio...
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The Prepared Practitioner: Constructivism and Conceptual Change, Part II
As complex and theoretical as constructivist principles sounds, classroom application often boils down to two precepts. First, learning is an active ...
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Science Teaching and International Assessments
This article is an introduction to the international assessments Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International...
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Green Product Chemist Andy Chen
Green chemistry is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce, recycle, or eliminate the use of generation of hazardous substances. Th...
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The study of electricity in general science or physics is fascinating for students. Unfortunately, a number of electrical dangers exist in the laborat...
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In this month’s column, the experts address the following questions: If you are in a car traveling at the speed of light, what would you observe if ...