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Editor's Corner: Making Sense of the World
In this month's Editor's Corner, the Field Editor paints a vivid word picture to describe the theme in this month's edition of The Science Teacher, wh...
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Idea Bank: A Resonance Tube Experiment Using "Boomwhackers"
Bring the "sound of music" to your science classroom--this activity uses the lengths and fundamental frequencies of a set of resonance tubes to verify...
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The experts address the following questions in this month’s column: If the scientific exploration of chemistry is still evolving, are there new elem...
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The Science Management Observation Protocol
Teachers often lack the procedural knowledge needed to manage a classroom where collaboration and scientific inquiry are emphasized. To combat this pr...
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Idea Bank: Getting a Crack out of Ice
Why does an ice cube make a cracking sound when it is dropped in a glass of water? How can we make a louder cracking sound? Does the loudness depend o...
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Landscape Architect Brandon DeRosa
From planning the layout of a zoo to recreating wetlands impacted by a development project, landscape architects use a blend of science and art to des...
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Inquiry labs in the science classroom help students make connections and discover scientific relationships for themselves. This article describes an i...
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Inquiry in the Chemistry Classroom
A recent survey of high school chemistry teachers indicated that many teachers are not using inquiry labs in their classrooms. One reason is that alth...