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Integrated Inquiry: Introductory level students benefit from authentic research, technological design, and peer review

To help teachers meet the need for a challenging inquiry-based science for high school students, particularly basic level integrated science, Cornell University developed a program called Environmental Inquiry (EI). The goals are to teach research an...

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Creating Curricula for Integrated Science: ARISE—Creating and implementing a coherent three-year integrated science course

The traditional sequence for teaching science is biology first, then chemistry, and physics last. This article focuses on the Illinois State Board of Education's proposal for the development of a three-year coherent science curricula, with physics-fi...

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Commentary: Community Learning

An opinion piece about the Department of Education's Smaller Learning Community Program (SLCP), which aims to stimulate a complete redesign of secondary education....

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Editor's Corner: Achieving Standards Through Integrated Science

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Integrating Forensic Science: Forensics can be the basis of a unique curriculum that fosters analytical thinking and problem solving

Forensic science is appealing because people want to be "detectives" in the general sense. This has resulted in an explosion of interest in the study of forensic science. This interest makes it an effective mechanism for teaching integrated science, ...

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Assessing Air Quality: An integrated curriculum teaches high school science students about indoor air quality

The Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) Program, a pre-college program at Oregon State University, developed an educational framework that enables teachers and students to adopt an integrated science format for studying local ...

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GIRLS: Gifted, Intelligent, Real-Life Scientists—High school students teach younger girls at science camp

The Webb Schools break down the barriers that deter intelligent young women from studying science. The GIRLS Science Camp (GIRLS stands for gifted, intelligent, real-life scientists) is a week-long program where a select group of female high school ...

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Thought Patterns in Science & Creationism: Understanding the vast difference between creationism and evolutionary theory

The concept of evolution has been an important part of biology curricula, especially in high school, since the 1960s. Nevertheless, teaching the subject continues to be controversial because of the efforts of creationists to have "creation science" t...

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The Color of Soil: Exploring the chemistry of soil color

Soil color is a study of various chemical processes acting on soil. These processes include the weathering of geologic materials, the chemistry of oxidation-reduction actions upon various minerals of soil, and the biochemistry of the decomposition of...

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Commentary: Those Were The Days

An opinion piece about reflecting back to when you were a child and sharing some science-related experiences in the classroom....

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Editor's Corner: A Vision for the Trenches

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Commentary: The Courage of His Convictions

An opinion piece about the 75th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial."...

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Idea Bank

This article features activities on the value of using authentic models for lab reports, learning by osmosis, and why it is essential to include units....

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Seeds for Thought: Teaching students to teach themselves

The experiment in this article erupted when a student shared that they had dumped grape juice into a flower bed and the custodian expressed frustration stating that nothing would grow. This prompted the teacher to design an experiment to determine if...