Almost everyday a natural disaster occurs somewhere in the world. These disasters include volcano eruptions, flooding, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, and more.
Most students rarely have a personal encounter with the effects of natural disasters, during their school years. However, almost all will have an encounter sometime during their lifetime.
The most common encounter for everyone with a [...]
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Earth Day is around the corner - April 22nd - and every year teachers and students try to come up with new and innovative activities.
Recycling is a popular activity to keep the idea recycling going strong. Classrooms often come up with ideas to recycle paper, ink cartridges, plastic bottles, metal cans, and newspapers.
However, there are [...]
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The importance of experimental design in science is that helps students infer about causes or relationships, as opposed to simply describe what happened in a canned experiment.
As students learn to develop their own experimental design they must be able to answer the most important question of all regarding the design process.
Essentially, they are determining a [...]
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