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This month’s Science Teacher is a collection of ideas from low-tech card sorts (a wonderful way to get students thinking) to high-tech investiga...
By Mary Bigelow
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It will soon be the time when many schools go into Science Fair mode, with reactions from students (and perhaps some teachers) that range from cheers ...
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One of my favorite benefits of being an NSTA member is being able to view all of the journals electronically, even though I must confess that I do lik...
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This month’s issue has a theme that is appealing to most middle school students – the human body....
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As part of a project I am working on, I was visiting the science classes of teachers who participated in a summer professional education project. One ...
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From cyberspace to SciLinks: website design
I’ve described a few components of the SciLinks rubric so far: the accuracy and appropriateness of the content, the credentials of the sites owner/a...
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The article Using Japanese Lesson Design to ANTicipate an Invasion on Maui caught my attention, not as much because of the topic of fire ants as an in...
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Bringing biology instruction to life
Here is an interesting coincidence. The other day, I was reading the Science Teacher article on “The Life and Work of John Snow,” with sug...
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In the local newspaper, an organization advertised its Haunted House event for Halloween. One of the chambers is the laboratory of a “mad scientist....
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Another Fall event – Mole Day
In a previous entry on fall activities, I forgot to include Mole Day, celebrated on October 23 (10/23) from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. The timing of this ...
By Mary Bigelow
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This is the theme of the October Science and Children....
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From cyberspace to SciLinks: website interactivity
It took me a while to get used to this part of the rubric. When I first became involved with software design back in the 1980s (yes, light years ago!)...
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It’s October already–the air is getting a little cooler, the leaves are changing color, and the number of daylight hours is decreasing. Some birds...
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September publications and SciLinks
Each month, I’ll mention some sites that relate to that month’s themes of the three K-12 NSTA journals. These are sites that illustrate what I ...
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From cyberspace to Scilinks: content and credibility
How does a website become part of SciLinks? Potential topics are identified from the content of SciLinked textbooks or NSTA publications. (The SciLink...
By Mary Bigelow