Describes the Purple Loosestrife Project, an innovative outreach and educational program to provide a biological control of purple loosestrife. Involves cooperation of community, teachers, and students. (YDS)

Describes how Japanese fish printing brings interdisciplinary science and culture to the classroom. Presents an activity on fish printing that provides students with a tactile, concrete experience and explores what fish feel like and how their scales are arranged. (ASK)

Presents a multidisciplinary activity for reviewing general chemistry concepts in which students make their own tie-dye cloth. Explores the traditional cultures and customs of Nigeria. (ASK)

Presents an activity that addresses cultural differences and diversity through ethnobotany. Offers a multicultural framework designed to develop concepts about plant characteristics and taxonomy. (ASK)

Offers ways of including special needs students in the science classroom. Discusses inclusion as the law, what a science teacher can do, and safety in inclusive classrooms. (ASK)

Uncovers teaching strategies for underrepresented groups. Describes a project whose members interviewed more than 200 people that represent the target populations of minority groups. (ASK)

Presents five standards-based strategies that science teachers can employ to address the particular needs of students with learning disabilities in order to work effectively in inclusive classrooms. (ASK)

Introduces a project in which female students learn to critically evaluate science on the Internet. Concludes that students became familiar with technology and thought critically about science on the Internet. (ASK)

Discusses teaching ethnoscience in the classroom. Presents an activity incorporating an ethnoscience example, Mayan Ethnoastronomy, in the science curriculum. (Contains 12 references.) (ASK)

Describes an activity to learn about meteorology and weather using the internet. Discusses the National Weather Service (NWS) internet site www.weather.gov. Students examine maximum and minimum daily temperatures, wind speed, and direction. (SAH)

Describes how to develop quality performance-based assessment tasks. Demonstrates that a change in methodology can make a considerable difference in achievement levels. Focuses on one assessment task, "You'll Get a Charge Out of This", which addresses electricity. (SAH)

Examines the importance of teaching for active learning. Describes teaching an interactive chemistry course to help students internalize their learning. Changes from a textbook teaching approach to an interactive learning experience. (SAH)

Explains from fundamentals how the periodic table became the way it is and in doing so, touches on quantum theory and the important concept of symmetry. (SAH)

Challenges students to produce miniature submarines that sink in water and then rise again as a gas is produced. Enhances students' understanding of density and buoyancy. (SAH)

Describes a multi-resource learning environment in which students can engage in their own learning with the teacher taking more of a facilitative role. This type of learning can occur as part of a unit of study and must be supplemented with more traditional types of instruction to ensure that the necessary content is given by the teacher. (SAH)