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"It's ELEMENTary, My Dear Watson": A Crime Scene Investigation With a Technological Twist
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The Crime Scene Labs is a technology-enhanced unit with seven laboratory stations. Probes at many of the stations facilitate students collecting and analyzing their own data (some lessons are adapted from Volz and…
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Virtual Field Trip to Antarctica: An integrated unit of science, language arts, and technology
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Using a private, interactive Internet site, students took a virtual field trip to Antarctica. This activity was a collaborative project between science and language arts teachers to help fifth-grade students learn how…
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Think Instruments, Think Apps: Using App-Based Technology in the Science Classroom
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Integrate tablets and smartphones into your classroom by incorporating the latest apps into your lessons.
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Science Sampler: A five-step approach to planning for technology in new science spaces
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Cutting-edge technology such as interactive whiteboards, PDAs, and BlackBerry-enabled cell phones are becoming more common in the classroom, but rapid technological advances such as these present a challenge to those…
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The Distant Exploration of Wolves: Using Technology to Explore Student Questions About Wolves
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Radio telemetry data available via the internet are used to facilitate long-term inquiry projects. Through these projects, students gain a deeper understanding of specific inquiry and the nature of science, while…
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Technology-Based Learning: Using water studies as the basis for an alternative teaching strategy
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The Technology-Based Learning in School Science (tBLISS) project was developed with two purposes in mind—to investigate the feasibility of implementing a technology-based science curriculum with a small group of…
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Should We Continue Space Travel? A Technology-Supported Approach to Engaging Students
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It often seems that as the school year draws to a close, students lose their enthusiasm for learning. So the question becomes, how do we design meaningful curricula that places students at the heart of the learning?…