All The Science Teacher resources

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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank learn about other potential uses f...

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Student Teaching Tools: Key factors to remember in the classroom

Upon starting the actual process of teaching you can never be completely prepared for the experience. This author identifies four key factors that wil...

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Probing for Understanding: Measuring scientific achievement with assessment probes

Measuring whether students have a deep understanding of scientific concepts is a challenge for educators. Using assessment probes allows inquiry into ...

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Commentary: Supporting the Student Teacher

An opinion piece about how the cooperating teacher continues to be the major influence on the student teacher. ...

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Editor's Corner: Training Grounds for the Future

Training student teachers is a critical skill. The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on student teaching....

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Commentary: Why We Accept the Challenge

An opinion piece about qualified teachers serving as mentors to pre-service science teachers....

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Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Investigating the reliability of classroom demonstrations

The author describes a traditional classroom experiment often used to demonstrate the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, and challenges the high scho...

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Exploration Science: A case history from Earth orbit

The intent of this case history is to encourage science fair organizers to permit students to submit observational science projects, not just experime...

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Excavating Cratering: Bringing a NASA mission into Earth science classrooms

The author brings NASA research on excavating a crater into the science classroom in the form of an inquiry investigation. Students begin to see that ...

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Sink or Swim

New teachers often are given the most preparations, classroom moves, and demanding students. In addition, new teachers are sometimes added to the rost...

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Preparing Preservice Teachers

One way to improve teacher retention is to adequately prepare preservice teachers while they are enrolled in professional teacher education programs a...

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Editor's Corner: Create a Sense of Belonging

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the mentoring of new teachers....

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You Are Not Alone

Isolation, both physical and social, is not new to teaching (Lortie, 1975). The structure of the school building itself isolates teachers from one ano...

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Commentary: Partnerships—Promoting Excellence and Equity in Science

An opinion piece about how to succeed in promoting excellence and equity in science. We must work with other organizations and agencies to provide hig...