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Middle school students are curious about genetics, and most have an awareness of the use of genetic testing and DNA samples from popular television programs. The featured articles this month show how teachers can capitalize on this interest with inte...
By Mary Bigelow
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Students at Bailey’s Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences are finding out how many different kinds of invertebrates live in their schoolyard....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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A system is more than a collection—each component is related to others, and changing one component affects the others. The featured articles in this issue describe how students can learn systems thinking (as well as content concepts)....
By Mary Bigelow
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Destination Atlanta, GA for professional development in November 2012
Atlanta, Georgia is the place to be this November for professional development opportunities at two conferences—the National Science Teachers Association’s area conference November 1-3, and the National Association for the Education of Young Chi...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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What are traditional autumn activities in your program?
Pumpkins are beautiful and varied, and so are apples, plus they taste good. No wonder these fall crops are part of early childhood activities in so many programs. Accomplished early childhood teachers don’t just “do” pumpkins—they use pumpkin...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Mini Doc Cams Capture the World Up Close
Small document cameras, or mini doc cams, are making inroads into many classrooms due to their low cost, USB power, small size, and adaptability. It is the latter feature that makes them especially attractive to science teachers....
By Martin Horejsi
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Sharing a few online and in print resources for teachers and families
I’m sharing a few free online resources that I’ve recently come across. Share a resource that you use, by commenting, below. The Fred Rogers Early Learning Environment has many short videos that families and early childhood educators can ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I’m conducting a professional development (PD) workshop on instructional strategies for our elementary science department, sharing some of the great ideas I learned at a conference. The teachers all know each other, so we don’t need the...
By Mary Bigelow
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In my classroom, I liked to have music playing when the students came in. It was usually classical and the students seemed to enjoy it–one student was especially fond of Mozart. From some recent tweets, I discovered several sites with a differe...
By Mary Bigelow
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Early learning experiences build toward understanding concepts that are hard to teach
We all have seen how children begin making sense of the world before they have any formal or informal teaching about a concept or topic…discovering through exploration that the world has textures, some things are for eating and some are not, object...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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The budget situation in the past few years has lead to a number of teacher layoffs and reassignments. In many cases, beginning teachers bear the brunt of these. But often overlooked are the effects of these changes on the teachers who remain (and t...
By Mary Bigelow
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And the definition is??? Defining 21st century skills
Based on many different sectors requests to have schools integrate skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and problem solving into academic subjects, the term of 21st century skills surfaced several years ago and has been promoted throughou...
By Christine Royce
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A point well taken about the Leading Edge
The Leading Edge is a blog that asks those involved in science education leadership whether that be administrators, policy makers, supervisors, state leaders to continue the conversation on something that was presented in the recent issue of The Lead...
By Christine Royce