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Data-Driven Inquiry in the PBL Classroom
Linking maps, graphs, and tables in biology...
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Using socio-scientific issues to foster critical thinking...
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Editor’s Corner: It’s Critical
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Focus on Physics: Care in the Classroom: This Teacher’s Odyssey
This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. The department editor describes his career as a teacher....
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Career of the Month: Volcanologist
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This issue describes Adam Soule's career path to becoming a volcanologist....
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Right to the Source: From Inconvenience to Inspiration
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This issue discusses Benjamin Franklin’s May 23, 1785, letter to George Whatley about bifocal glasses....
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First graders explore what makes sound through a 7E learning cycle....
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Supporting young students in scientific argumentation and modeling...
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Using the Understanding by Design model and NGSS in concert to plan and instruct in science...
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Engineering design activities for preschoolers introduce practices and encourage scientific habits of mind....
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Editor’s Note: Planting and Practicing
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Guest Editorial: Addressing Common Questions About 21st-Century Science Teaching
An early childhood science educator shares answers to commonly asked NGSS questions....
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The Early Years: Making Sense of Their World
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this issue students document the apparent movement of the Sun by making and recording two daily observations for a period of time and looking for a patter...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Important Impacts
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this issue younger students investigate and determine that different types of plants have different needs, which depend on the environment in which they grow. Older students iden...
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Formative Assessment Probes: Is a Brick a Rock?
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This issue explores a probe about lines of agreement with opposing views....
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The Poetry of Science: Dimensions of Science
Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways. Students explore a poem about science....
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Teaching Teachers: The Language of Science in the Reading and Writing of Student Scientists
This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. This article serves as an introduction to the different genres used in the work of doing science. The authors offer information about each and examples of how they differ in pu...
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Engineering Encounters: How Can We Store Water During a Drought?
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This issue shares information about a sustainability engineering design problem for fourth graders....
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Methods and Strategies: Seeds of Practice
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This issue discusses how to modify 5E inquiry lessons to amplify science and engineering practices....
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Inspiring Student-Driven Observations
Use low-cost temperature loggers to explore Earth science concepts through student-designed experiments....
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The Temperature-Sensing Lunchbox
Teach electricity and circuitry while students build a working model of thermal energy transfer....
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Help students make connections between the four main branches of engineering—electrical, chemical, mechanical, and civil....
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Assign students specific tasks to complete a maker jigsaw electric circuit that models energy flow and transfer in a food web....
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Making in the Middle: Celebrity Statues
This column explores maker spaces, engineering and more. Students learn computational thinking by designing biomimetic robots....
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From the Editor’s Desk: Reinventing STEM Through the Maker Movement
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Commentary: A Real-World STEM Competition
An opinion piece about the eCYBERMISSION competition....
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Disequilibrium: Flight and the Bernoulli Effect
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This lesson incorporates several discrepant events that demonstrate Bernoulli’s principle to help students understand lift, one of the four forces of flight (lift, drag, thr...
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Science For All: Engineering a Classroom That Works for All
This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. The authors have found that there are multiple strategies that support students with special education needs, as well as ELLs. Here are just a few research-based strategies that they ha...
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Interdisciplinary Ideas: Creating a Classroom Library
This column shares ways to bring other subjects into the science classroom. This issue discusses the importance of building your classroom library....