The Science Teacher—November/December 2019

Volume 87, Number 4

Learning on Personal Devices

Tablets, cell phones, and other handheld devices have become increasingly popular tools to help students learn. In this issue we examine innovative ways teachers have incorporated handheld devices into lessons about climate change, wetlands, molecular motion, and bird populations. We also learn that handheld devices have actually been around since the 18th century!

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How Can We Motivate Our Science Students?

Notes from the field editor ...

By Ann Haley Mackenzie

High School Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Using Models to Teach Science

By Byung-Yeol Park, Laura Rodriguez, and Todd Campbell

High School Environmental Science NGSS Teaching Strategies

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Migrate to Mobile with eBird

By Jill Nugent

High School Citizen Science Life Science Technology

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Emphasizing Physics Concepts with Cartoons

By Paul G. Hewitt

High School Physical Science Physics

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Arguing About a Chemical Change

Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning ...

By Patrick Brown

High School Chemistry Literacy NGSS Teaching Strategies

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A Lesson in Geospatial Inquiry

By Eric Nolan, Brooke A. Whitworth, and Lori Rubino-Hare

High School Inquiry Interdisciplinary Technology

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Why Wetlands Matter

By Megan H. Reed, Tom Jenkins, and Lisa Kenyon

High School Biology Environmental Science

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Evidence of Molecular Motion