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Teaching Through Trade Books: Science Measures Up
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Can you measure a dog’s tail in dog biscuits? Can you measure a desk without a ruler? Which is better: measuring a room in paces or meters? Which system of measurement do scientists use? This month’s column explores…
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The Green Room: Measure Your Community's Smog Levels
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue offers activities relating to air pollution.
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Science Sampler: Made to measure—Teaching the skill of estimation
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Estimation is an important skill that we all use every day, often without realizing it. It might not seem very scientific, because we think of science as being accurate and precise—surely estimating is just a form of…
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Measuring Molecules: An interdisciplinary lesson incorporates ecology and mathematics
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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…
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Probing for Understanding: Measuring scientific achievement with assessment probes
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Measuring whether students have a deep understanding of scientific concepts is a challenge for educators. Using assessment probes allows inquiry into the meaning of deep understanding. The author shares several probes…
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Go, Turtle, Go: Measuring Motion to Build Proficiency in Science
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Have students plan an investigation that will provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on sum of the forces acting on the object and its mass.
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Focus on Physics: When Our Round Earth Was First Measured
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Building an understanding of physical principles. This month's issue discusses the methods Eratosthenes used to measure the roundness of Earth.
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