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Commentary: What it Means to Belong
An opinion piece about why you belong to a professional organization....
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Isopod Inquiry: Students learn experimental design by studying sowbug food preferences
For any science teacher who has ever used slugs or snails for behavioral studies, sowbugs—also known as isopods or pillbugs—are a welcome alternat...
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Commentary: The Changing Nature of Science
An opinion piece about the current science education reform....
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Teaching to the Power of 10: Microscopic & macroscopic scaling activties for the classroom
Traditional scaling activities put students through the paces of the exercise but do not provide relevant associations with the idea of size and how g...
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STS Simulations: Engaging students with issues-based scenarios
Science-Technology-Society (STS) issues-based simulations present science education in an appropriate context for all students. In STS issues-based si...
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Editor's Corner: Kool Konversions
The Science Teacher’s editor introduces a wonderful teaching tool she found at the grocery store—Kool-Aid packages....
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In this article two teachers, one from the science department and one from the industrial technology department, paired up in a newly developed course...
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Commentary: Mass and Weight—Explaining the Difference
An opinion piece about two of the most commonly confused words in science class—mass and weight....
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Commentary: Developing Professionals
An opinion piece about having access to and participating in ongoing, quality, professional development programs....
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Buffer Biology: A design-your-own lab for chemistry
This article presents a buffer investigation to learn about the buffering capacity of household products such as shampoo and hand lotion. Students des...
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Rock Cycle Roulette: Using dice and probabilities, students interactively learn about the rock cycle
Teachers of environmental science, Earth systems, geology electives, or traditional Earth science courses must teach the rock cycle at some point in t...