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On a bright spring day last year, high school environmental science students led third graders on a dynamic learning adventure as part of an annual Outdoor Ecology School. At a water-monitoring site in a nearby national forest, the elementary student...
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In a rural Eastern North Carolina county, a team of students and teachers came together to explore the scientific dynamics of a historic millpond. The Bennett’s Millpond Environmental Learning Project immerses students and teachers in sustained con...
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Radiation Therapist Robert Adams
Cancer encompasses over 125 diseases. In the United States alone, over 1 million people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. Approximately 70 percent of the cancer patients will receive radiation therapy. The goal of radiation therapy is to eradi...
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By getting lost in geospatial technology, a group of high school students discovered how to help members of the community find their way around. This was the result of collaboration between the author (a retired science teacher) and the computer teac...
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The Don River watershed is located within Canada’s most highly urbanized area—metropolitan Toronto. To help assess the ecological health of the Don, biology students investigated the main Don River tributaries using macroinvertebrates instead of ...
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Each Tuesday during the fall of 2002, teams of high school students from three South Carolina countries conducted a four-hour polymer institute for their peers at the local public library. In less than two months, over 300 students visited the exhibi...
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Introducing students to metacognition, or thinking about one’s thinking, allows them to discover the value of reflection. Courses related to thinking theory are often included in the curriculum for high-achieving students, but these methods can als...
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With the convenience of fast-food restaurants on almost every corner, many young people are consuming these foods too often. Therefore, a group of concerned high school students in Wichita, Kansas, studied ratios of omega-3 fatty acids to omega-6 fat...
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Career of the Month: An interview with hurricane researcher Christopher Landsea
Do you find yourself gazing at the sky, curious about the forces of nature? Meteorologists’ curiosity drives them to understand Earth’s atmospheric phenomena and how it affects Earth and the life on our planet. The phenomena include everything fr...
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In this month’s column, the following question is addressed: On very hot days when the Sun beats against the pavement, the light above the ground appears to waver and tremble. Is this the heat reacting with our eyes, or does intense heat actually a...
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Idea Bank: The Human Population Game
The future of civilization and the biosphere depend partly on what is accomplished in the classroom today. Population, resource use, and population’s impact on the environment are often studied separately and passively. In life, however, these vari...