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Each chapter in my science textbook is loaded with new vocabulary. How can I help students to deal with this specialized vocabulary? —Dan, Ramap...
By MsMentorAdmin
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Some of you may remember the pre-Internet days when if you didn’t subscribe to a mailed publication, you had to trek to a public or university libra...
By Mary Bigelow
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Using science notebooks with young students
Science Notebooks can be useful tools, even with young students who are just learning to read and write. See how kindergarten teacher Kathryn Kaatz in...
By ManagingEditorSC
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Weekly Wondering: What Are You Doing to Get Ready for the New School Year?
August is here, and that can only mean one thing: The new school year is right around the corner! Teacher Vision offers some tips for starting off the...
By ManagingEditorSC
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As the new school year is getting underway, are you looking for some experiences to get students focused on scientific thinking and research skills? H...
By Mary Bigelow
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Send us your teacher's picks
Each Early Years column features resources selected by real teachers–and we want yours! We’re seeking Teacher’s Picks on the followi...
By ManagingEditorSC
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The Summer Early Years column An Invertebrate Garden featured Teacher’s Picks from science resource teacher Fred Arnold of Spencerport, New Yor...
By ManagingEditorSC
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To a science teacher, an ideal summer day might include a stroll through a zoo or botanical garden, a cool afternoon in a planetarium or aquarium, a h...
By Mary Bigelow
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Predator finds caterpillars indoors
Last August I had four monarch butterfly larvae chewing up milkweed leaves on my kitchen windowsill as fast as I could provide them. The caterpillars ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Who needs a slug? was the question this week at a program I gave at the public library. The children, ages 6-10, carefully picked through habitat-like...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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An invertebrate garden and …
It feels like summer will be over before we know it! Many of you—those who actually had a summer off that is—are busy preparing your clas...
By ManagingEditorSC
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Welcome to the new Early Years blog
Early childhood science educators: this is your place! We’re starting simply but hope to expand this site with your help. Here are a few plans...
By ManagingEditorSC
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The solar system, the metric system, the circulatory system, the system of checks and balances, transportation systems, broadcasting systems, informat...
By Mary Bigelow
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I’m getting ready for a two-week camping trip to upstate New York for a family reunion, sightseeing, and hiking/birdwatching. I’m also loo...
By Mary Bigelow
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In the ideal world, every school would have whatever materials it takes to provide quality learning experiences. But our world is not ideal and we tea...
By Mary Bigelow