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The Poetry of Science: Citizen Science
Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways. Talking about this poem shows how regular people can join with scientists to study nature and observe patterns that provide significant data....
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The Early Years: Looking at Landscapes
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this month’s issue students study landscape surfaces to recognize changes due to human impacts or natural phenomena....
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Editor's Note: Early Childhood Engagement in Science
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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The Early Years: Integrating Digital Tools
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue talks about how digital media and robotics fit into the early childhood curriculum....
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Engineering Encounters: Optimizing Your K–5 Engineering Design Challenge
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue discusses the optimizations that will serve to inform readers of seven recommendations for optimizing an engineering lesson....
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The Early Years: Getting Deep With Documentation
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this kindergarten practice, storytelling leads to drawing, adding more detail, and then writing as literacy skills are developed....
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Engineering Encounters: An Engineering Design Process for Early Childhood
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information about trying (again) to engineer an egg package....
NSTA Kids
Quiet as a Butterfly: I Wonder Why
“One day I listened. I listened to all the sounds I heard. I listened and I wondered.” From a clock’s ticks in the morning to a father’s snores at night, sounds are everywhere. That’s what an attentive boy discovers as he listens his way...
NSTA Kids
This lively book’s title makes the perfect motto for young scientists: Look and see! With the help of charming text and bright pictures, you learn just how much you can use your sense of sight. Toys and tools, birds and bugs, flowers and fish, and ...