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Engineering Encounters: What’s The Buzz on Bees?

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information about a flower anatomy and honeybee pollination unit that incorporates inquiry and engineering....

Elementary Engineering Life Science STEM 5E

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Deep Thinking Over Geologic Time: Understanding Fossils and Relative Dating

Explore geologic time with this series of hands-on activities....

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Using Imagery Support Strategies to Develop Powerful Imagistic Models

Create scientific models using imagery....

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Modeling Mendel: Using a Puzzle-Solving Activity to Develop Ideas About Genetics

Develop Punnett squares that explain observed patterns....

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Engaging All Students in Science Practices Through a Cell Modeling Lesson

Construct models of photosynthesis and cellular respiration while providing science language learning opportunities....

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Constructing Scientific Models Through Kinulations

Learn to kinesthetically model scientific phenomena....

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Classic Lessons 2.0: Explaining Patterns in Our Solar System and the Role of Gravity in Space

This column shares updated perennial classroom favorites. This is the last of three articles written to highlight pedagogical approaches consistent with the Next Generation Science Standards for supporting students’ learning progression of Earth’...

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Teacher’s Toolkit: Science Can Be a Piece of Cake!

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. Improving science comprehension through analogies....

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From the Editor’s Desk: No Glue Required

Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Citizen Science: Did You Feel It?

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Shake up your Earth science classroom with earthquake citizen science....

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Disequilibrium: Wildfires, the Fire Triangle, and CO2 Extinguishers

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event models a CO2 fire extinguisher, helps students understand the fire triangle, and allows students to ponder ways to mitigate the effects of wil...

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Listserv Roundup: Technology Tools for Paperless Homework

This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. This month’s column is all about the technology tools NSTA e-mail listserv members use to assign and manage homework....

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Science for All: Using Formative Assessments to Differentiate Instruction

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's issue discusses how to keep formative assessment methods informative and engaging to maximize student participation and performance....

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Teacher To Teacher: Creating Conceptual Storylines

This column provides practical advice from your peers. A conceptual storyline employs a narrative approach to learning in which students are able to build and retain science concepts. To properly construct a conceptual storyline, educators should de...

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Scope on the Skies: Star Chart

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue describes the H-R (Hertzsprung-Russell) diagram, which is a representation of the relationship between a star’s luminosity and its temperature....

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Creating Science Websites

A website design project challenges students’ creativity and motivates them to learn....

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Making Waves

Exploring the Earth with seismology....

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Connecting Science and Technology

Exploring the Nature of Science using historical short stories....

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Learning Lichens

Students investigate this fascinating composite organism growing in the school yard....

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Editor's Corner: Smartphones: Challenge or Opportunity?

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Science 2.0: Choosing a 3-D Printer

This column shares web tools that support learning. Last month the authors discussed using a 3-D printer to help teach design thinking. This month they look more closely at the printers themselves. Although 3-D printers are fairly simple tools, teach...

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Focus on Physics: Radiant Energy and Global Warming

This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's article discusses electromagnetic radiation....

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Idea Bank: Using Apps That Support Scientific Practices

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. For this article, the authors analyzed 93 educational applications (apps) that have the potential to help students meaningfully engage in the science practices ou...

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Idea Bank: The Art of Chemistry

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This article describes a research-based investigation in which students explore chemical reactivity in the context of artistic expression. It results in the creat...

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Career of the Month: Social Media Manager

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Kelly Owen's career path to becoming a Social Media Manager....

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Right to the Source: How the Telegraph Changed the World

Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the 1853 map of telegraph stations in the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia....

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Adventures With Arthropods: Eco-Friendly Lessons for Middle School (e-book)

If you’ve ever wished you could teach with tarantulas—or roly polys, or Madagascar hissing cockroaches—this is the resource for you. It tells how to help middle schoolers get up close and personal with amazing arthropods, the bugs that make up ...

Book Chapter

The Race for Tall Towers

In this lesson, students learn the basics about construction materials, the construction processes used in building tall towers, and the forces and geometry associated with static structures. To be able to understand the science and mathematics invol...

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Success Through Failure

In this lesson, students learn about the engineering concept of learning from failure by examining the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers. They also learn about the science and mathematics behind the collapse of these structures, as well ...

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New Technologies for High-Rise Buildings

In this lesson, student teams are challenged to examine the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Each team will develop a proposal for a new or improved building material or method that could be incorporated into the design of future high...

Interactive E-book Kids

Home is Where My Habitat is

Many different plants and animals live in any gven habitat, both on land and in the water. To explare this phenomenon, we follow a jumping spider named Kippy in her search for a new habitat. This spider belongs to the species Bagheera kiplingi, which...

Elementary Biology Environmental Science Life Science STEM Technology 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy

Interactive E-book Kids

The Amazing Light Show

What happens when light encounters different objects and surfaces? Follow two characters, Liz and Sam, while they put on a light show to investigate this question. In the first act, Liz and Sam invite the reader to question, observe, and investigate ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Physical Science STEM Technology 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy

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Wind Energy, Grade 5: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)

New in 2017 What if you could challenge your fifth graders to develop an economical, eco-friendly wind farm? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Wind Energy outlines a journey that will steer your students toward aut...

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Energetic Interactions

This lesson introduces the concepts of energy as the ability to do work, energy transformations, and potential and kinetic energy. It also presents the concept of scarce resources as an introduction to the module’s final challenge, the Water for Al...

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Renewable or Not?

In this lesson, students are introduced to the concept of renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. By tracing their own energy supplies to the source, students learn that all energy on earth ultimately comes from the Sun. Students work in teams to ...

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Energy and Earth

In this lesson, students gain an understanding of the greenhouse effect as a natural process that traps warm air in the Earth’s atmosphere and is magnified by carbon emissions. Students compare the environmental effects of solar energy and fossil f...