JoinAll The Science Teacher resources
Journal Article
Career of the Month: An interview with bomb investigator Barney T. Villa
When there is a bomb threat, these men and women com to the rescue. You may have seen them portrayed in movies and cop shows, but bomb technicians and investigators actually live the drama you only watch on TV. And behind the scenes, scientific tec...
Journal Article
Teaching the Stories of Scientists and their Discoveries
It takes very little extra time and effort to correlate required science concepts with history. For example, teachers can provide the historical background for Mendeleev’s development of the periodic table as students learn the concept of periodici...
Journal Article
Revising Instruction to Teach Nature of Science
Despite numerous attempts, including the major curricular reform efforts of the 1960s to improve students’ understandings about the scientific endeavor, students have consistently been shown to possess inadequate understandings of several aspects o...
Journal Article
The Biology of Food course—a large lecture course with no laboratory section—is a mixture of kitchen chemistry, post-eating food metabolism, origins of different foods (from crop breeding to evolution), and ecological and environmental impacts of...
Journal Article
The experts address the following question in this month’s column: My mom always warns me that I should never eat undercooked hamburgers, but we serve our grilled steaks medium rare. Isn’t that dangerous too? And what about other meats such as po...
Journal Article
To teach students about food safety practices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) formed a partnership to develop a free curriculum kit titled Science and Our Food Supply (FDA and NSTA 2...
Journal Article
Getting More Mileage Out of Mousetrap Cars
Building and racing mousetrap cars is a common activity in many eighth- and ninth-grade physical science classrooms. However, once students have raced their cars, most mousetrap assignments come to an end. The project described here was developed to ...
Journal Article
A Voyage through the Radio Universe
The Radio Astronomy Research Team from from Oil City Area Senior High School (OCHS) in Oil City, Pennsylvania, embarked on a special project titled “Mapping the Universe” at the start of the 2000 school year. For the project, students analyzed da...