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Measuring Molecules: An interdisciplinary lesson incorporates ecology and mathematics

This interdisciplinary project investigates the enormous environment-polluting power of uncontrolled petroleum products. While focusing on mathematics and science, this exercise helps students to conceptually transfer the ecological ramifications of ...

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Create Your Own Field Guide: Students take field research into the computer lab to make campus field guides

Taking classes outdoors to do field studies can be difficult because students have a hard time identifying the local flora and fauna. To resolve the outdoor identification problem, the teachers and students at Arrowhead High School decided to create ...

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Rethinking the Role of the Science Teacher: Eschewing standardized testing in favor of authentic assessment

Researchers believe an uncomfortable trend is developing in education reform—teaching is being influenced by large-scale assessments that fail to capture students’ abilities to do sustained work. This article focuses on teacher-based assessment w...

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Sidewalk Astronomy: Students and teachers take astronomy to the street

After sharing his large telescope with passersby on a busy street corner in Chicago, the author started the Sidewalk Astronomy Club to involve students in the experience. As a result sidewalk astronomy has become a great means for bringing together p...