Art and science share several significant practices. Both involve exploration. Both use experimentation. Both endeavor to discover. And both share the act of careful observation. Observation is a concentrated study requiring attention to the characteristics of an object, a scene, or a situation: light, shape, texture, pattern, color, detail, and…

The BioHealth Capital Region (Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC; BHCR) is flush with colleges and universities training students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines and has one of the most highly educated workforces in the United States. However, current educational approaches and business recruitment tactics are…

We describe an interactive collaborative environmental education project that makes advanced laboratory facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory accessible for one-year or multi-year science projects for the high school level. Cyber-enabled Environmental Science (CEES) utilizes web conferencing software to bring multi-disciplinary,…

State implementation of new standards (revising, adapting, and adopting new standards) is a significant undertaking. Such an effort at the state level requires extensive support, planning, and resources. Implementing new state standards also requires the support of multiple education leaders--governors, legislators, state departments of education,…

Students love field trips, and why shouldn't they? Field trips provide a break from the routine of the school day and an opportunity to learn from the world outside the classroom. Science and natural history museums are popular field-trip destinations, filled with a dizzying array of displays, and hands-on learning opportunities. The author…

Despite the ubiquity and critical importance of science and technology in international affairs, their role receives insufficient attention in traditional international relations curricula. There is little literature on how the relations between science, technology, economics, politics, law and culture should be taught in an international context.…

Imagine being able to access all known information about an insect species--whether it was discovered 100 years or 100 days ago--with one touch of the screen. Picture a world in which you can not only see Smithsonian objects online but also hear them and watch them in motion. Or imagine learning that Smithsonian astrophysicists discovered a new,…

An inexpensive and simple class participation demonstration uses students, short lengths of metal pipe, and an inexpensive digital voltmeter to make a battery of students. Data taken illustrate the combination of emfs in series and parallel. This apparatus was awarded second place and a low-cost award in the 2007 AAPT Apparatus Competition.

Last November, more than 700 school leaders, educators, and reporters gathered in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the promise of innovative teaching and project learning to change global future. The event was the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum, and its purpose was for educators worldwide to connect, learn, and collaborate on some of…

This article reports findings on visitors' preferences for content presentation of a future global warming and climate change exhibit. The study was conducted with two groups: one from the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, and the other at the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. The…

A representative sample of 122,000 eighth-graders participated in the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment, which is designed to measure students' knowledge and abilities in the areas of physical science, life science, and Earth and space sciences. This report covers the overall results, achievement level…

This "case study" details how food science was introduced into the classrooms of a typically underrepresented population. James Sarakatsannis, an 8th grade physical science teacher, was planning a unit that would use fast food to teach science to his classes, when he came across the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) website and a…

SUMMARIES OF 54 STUDIES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION COMPLETED DURING 1950 ARE TREATED IN THIS LISTING. THE STUDIES LISTED REPRESENT THE RESPONSE TO A NATIONWIDE QUESTIONNAIRE REQUESTING COPIES OF RESEARCH REPORTS. FOR EACH ENTRY IN THE LISTING THERE ARE INCLUDED--(1) THE AUTHOR'S NAME, (2) THE TITLE OF THE STUDY, (3) WHETHER OR NOT IT IS A THESIS OR…

SUMMARIES OF 24 STUDIES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION COMPLETED DURING 1951 ARE TREATED IN THIS LISTING. THE STUDIES LISTED REPRESENT THE RESPONSE TO A NATIONWIDE QUESTIONNAIRE REQUESTING COPIES OF RESEARCH REPORTS. FOR EACH ENTRY IN THE LISTING THERE ARE INCLUDED--(1) THE AUTHOR'S NAME, (2) THE TITLE OF THE STUDY, (3) WHETHER OR NOT IT IS A THESIS OR…

SUMMARIES OF 78 STUDIES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION COMPLETED DURING 1952 ARE TREATED IN THIS LISTING. THE STUDIES LISTED REPRESENT THE RESPONSE TO A NATIONWIDE QUESTIONNAIRE REQUESTING COPIES OF RESEARCH REPORTS. FOR EACH ENTRY IN THE LISTING THERE ARE INCLUDED--(1) THE AUTHOR'S NAME, (2) THE TITLE OF THE STUDY, (3) WHETHER OR NOT IT IS A THESIS OR…