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Have you seen the National Science Foundation’s new online magazine Science Nation? The NSF’s news release dated June 1, 2009, states that...
By Mary Bigelow
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Read “Safety First” by Sarah Pounders and you can reassure your director and students’ parents that you are informed about how to avoid ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Raise your hand if you're a scientist!
I received the greatest compliment while sitting at the lunch table with a mixed age group of my students who are enrolled in the end-of-school-year c...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I’ve been asked to teach a different science course next year. I’m looking forward to the change, but I’m a little nervous about tea...
By MsMentorAdmin
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In an earlier blog, I spotlighted the Teachers’ Domain website, with its collection of lesson plans and multimedia resources. The more I see o...
By Mary Bigelow
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Rocks: collecting and classifying
On the playground two sisters collected rocks and set them on a bench where they grouped them by size. When I asked, “What kind of rock is that?” ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Many current approaches to the design of curriculum and instruction are emphasizing the use of “big ideas” (aka essential questions, overa...
By Mary Bigelow
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I’m concerned about the decrease in scheduled time for science instruction, especially in the primary grades. The teachers say that it’s a...
By MsMentorAdmin
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Although I credit my early childhood exposure to orchard, field, woods, and creek as the foundation for my understanding of the natural world, I would...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Preschool play as assessment tool
Preschool play can reflect young children’s knowledge about the natural world and the human interaction experiences they’ve had. I get to observe ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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The June/July issue of Learning and Leading with Technology has a description of the website Science Buddies, a comprehensive resource for science fa...
By Mary Bigelow
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My school does not have a recycling program, but as a science teacher I’d like to set an example of “green” behavior. What can I do ...
By MsMentorAdmin
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From the Early Years photo cache (click the pic for more)....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Standards and guidelines are great resources for lesson planning
Wanting to use best teaching practices and develop my students’ science thinking to the best of their capability, I look at what governments and cur...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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From the Early Years photo cache (click the pic for more)....
By Peggy Ashbrook