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Scope on Safety: Clearing the air on ventilation
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Poor ventilation is often a topic of conversation relative to safety concerns in school science laboratories. Too often, school science laboratories have ventilation systems that are inappropriate and ineffective for…
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Science 2.0: Data Through the Air
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses wireless interfaces and how they can be used in the science classroom.
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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…
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Disequilibrium: The Connection Between Weather and Air Masses
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This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s column helps explain how air masses flow from regions of high pressure to low pressure, causing weather at a fixed location to…
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The Green Room: Air Pollution in the Developing World
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue describes where to find ideas for classroom activities about air pollution.
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Science 101: Why does air expand when you heat it, and why does hot air rise?
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The short answer to the questions in the title are that air doesn't necessarily expand when you heat it, and hot air doesn't always rise. These two commonly misunderstood concepts related to the behavior of gases and…
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Teaching Earth Science Using Hot Air Balloons
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Constructing model hot air balloons is an activity that captures the imaginations of students, enabling teachers to present required content to minds that are open to receive it. Additionally, there are few activities…
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Breathing Easy About New Air Pollution Standards
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A town hall meeting is the backdrop for a role-playing case about ground-level ozone air pollution. The case consists of a flier and scripts drawn from public comment records on the current government mandate to reduce…
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Transporting Students Into Thin Air: Using Science to Enhance Reading
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The Into Thin Air unit, based on the book by Jon Krakauer, was designed as an interdisciplinary unit for a small group of academically gifted sixth-grade students. It included hands-on, minds-on activities that would…
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