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The Science Teacher—July/August 2023
Volume 90, Number 6 Engaging All Students in Our Science Classes Making science engaging for ALL students requires each of us to know our stud...
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The Science Teacher—May/June 2023
Volume 90, Number 5 May/June 2023 Promoting Scientific Literacy Scientific literacy means understanding how science is done, what is scienc...
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The Science Teacher—March/April 2023
Volume 90, Number 4 March/April 2023 Creating a Scientific Classroom Community Can we use ecology as a metaphor for the science classroom? ...
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The Science Teacher—January/February 2023
Special Issue on Immunology Guest Editors: Colby Tofel-Grehl and Brooke A. Whitworth The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the absence of resources ...
High School Biology Crosscutting Concepts Life Science News Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning
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The Science Teacher—November/December 2022
November/December 2022 Volume 90, Number 2 Many proponents of direct instruction believe it cuts down on classroom management issues. Sure, ma...
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The Science Teacher—September/October 2022
Volume 90, Number 1 Alternative Assessments in the Science Classroom When I say “assessments,” what immediately comes to your mind? Tests,...
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The Science Teacher—May/June 2022
May/June 2022 Volume 89, Number 5 Welcoming. Listening. Open-mindedness. Common ground. Social identities. Respecting. Suspending judgment. Au...
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The Science Teacher—January/February 2022
Volume 89, Number 3 Data Analysis in the Science Classroom This issue provides myriad examples of discovering, examining, and interpreting dat...
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The Science Teacher—November/December 2021
Volume 89, Number 2 Culturally Relevant Science Pedagogy Validating students’ cultural identities in classroom practices—such as understan...
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The Science Teacher—September/October 2021
Volume 89, Number 1 September/October 2021 In this social justice-themed issue, we look at examples of educators implementing lessons, labs, a...
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The Science Teacher—March/April 2021
Volume 88, Number 4, March/April 2021 Technology Innovations in Science Teaching This issue of The Science Teacher focuses on technological in...
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The Science Teacher—November/December 2020
Volume 88, Number 2 Interdisciplinary Science ...
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The Science Teacher—September/October 2020
Volume 88, Number 1 Evaluating Scientific Claims ...
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The Science Teacher—July/August 2020
Volume 87, No. 9 Equity for All How can we, as science educators, erase inequitable practices in our teaching? Digital Edition ...
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The Science Teacher—April/May 2020
Nature and the Environment Volume 87, No. 8 Digital Edition ...
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The Science Teacher—March 2020
Volume 87, Number 7 Making science come alive and having students address critical social issues creates a more socially just environment...
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The Science Teacher—February 2020
Volume 87, Number 6 The word assessment conjures up many questions for science teachers. Is it a necessary evil? When is it helpful and benefic...
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The Science Teacher—January 2020
Volume 87, Number 5 Fake news. Pseudoscience. Bad Science. Never before has so much information, both good and bad, been availab...
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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 ...
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The Science Teacher—October 2019
Teaching the periodic table is a central part of chemistry, whether it involves memorizing the symbols of the elements, learning about the properties ...
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The Science Teacher—September 2019
Our legacy as science teachers revolves around the memories we make with our students. Make memories. Leave a legacy. ...
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The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States 2013) weave connections to the nature of science into every standard. The NGSS note that “Sc...
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The Science Teacher—August 2019
As early as 1896, Swedish Nobel Prize winner Svante Arrhenius presented a hypothesis demonstrating that doubling the carbon dioxide content in Earth�...
