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Idea Bank: A 50-Cent Analytical Spectroscope
“How do we know all that we know about the stars, since they are so far away and no one from Earth has ever visited them?” A fair question to be sure. While astronomers believe they have decent estimates of the mass, temperature, size, and compo...
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Scientific Discovery for <em> All </em>
The scientific discovery process comes alive for 70 minority students each year at Uniondale High School in New York where students have won top awards for “in-house” projects. Students develop projects from an original idea that interests them, ...
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In this month’s Ask the Experts column, the following question is addressed: “Do the cells in a placenta have DNA in them and if so, whose DNA does it match, the mother or the fetus?”...
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K—12: Books Published in 2006
Apples and oranges … and lychees and loquats—how can one compare? That’s the challenge when a team of NSTA’s best science educators attempt to select the best of each year’s science trade books. It’s been 34 years since NSTA joined forces...
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Editor’s Corner: Science for All
This issue of The Science Teacher (TST) marks our 12th consecutive annual issue devoted to the theme “Science for All.” In its infancy, this special issue focused exclusively on the important topic of teaching science in multicultural classroo...