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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue featuring some of the favorite activities of the Presidential Awardees who were honored in past years for excellence in secondary science teaching....

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Mixture Mystery: Basic lab techniques and rules for the first day of chemistry class

This article features a lab that is easy to prepare, takes about 30 minutes to do, involves simple equipment and techniques, and yet allows students to experience the scientific method. The only subject matter involved is the idea that different mate...

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Peer-Led Team Learning: A new teaching model focuses on student achievement through active learning

Students are more likely to honestly express their ideas—both scientifically valid conceptions and misconceptions—in a peer group where they have no fear than in front of a teacher who will be issuing grades. The Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) mod...

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Versatile Vee Maps: An alternative to the traditional laboratory report

The Vee map is a tool that guides students' thinking and learning during laboratory experiences. As an alternative to the traditional laboratory report, vee maps allow teachers to look into the thinking of students while providng a format to guide st...

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Suckers for Science: Lessons with leeches teach students to think like scientists

Suckers for Science is a model inquiry-based program for integrating curriculum, incorporating technology, providing alternative assessment, demonstrating connections between classroom and real-life applications, and motivating students to learn more...

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The Process of Animation: Creating computerized animations of scientific processes

Dynamic processes are inherently difficult to teach in all branches of science. This article focuses on a better way to teach scientific processes by allowing students to observe them firsthand, but this can be difficult due to lack of equipment or t...

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A Question of Measure: Students build problem-solving skills by measuring volume

Early in the semester, students must learn to work in teams and develop problem-solving skills. This article features a team-building activity that requires students to incorporate math skills, logic, and problem solving. This activity helps students...

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The Ozone Show: Using a talk show format as an authentic assessment

Instructors are constantly searching for more authentic ways of assessing student work. Authentic assessments model activities students might perform in the outside world. As a concluding activity of a unit on the hole in the ozone layer, the environ...

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Students Make the Grade: By evaluating their peers in graded discussions, students learn key discussion behaviors

Teachers who have attempted classroom discussions have experienced a number of scenarios and still long for the perfect constructivist discussion—one in which each student is engaged, the class directs the course of the discussion, and all students...