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Teaching Teachers: Inquiry in Inclusive Preschools

This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. Preparing preservice teachers to plan and implement physical science learning centers ...

Early Childhood Inclusion Inquiry Physical Science Teacher Preparation

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Engineering Encounters: The Paper Airplane Challenge

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month's issue students learn about variables and trials while designing an investigation....

Elementary Physical Science STEM 5E Multilingual Learners

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Methods and Strategies: Formative Assessment Practices to Support Students who Struggle in Science

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue highlights how formative assessment activities support instructional shifts, of three Indiana Science Initiative (ISI) teachers....

Elementary General Science Assessment

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Empowering Sixth-Grade Students Through a Climate Change Lesson

Can a single human impact the planet’s climate?...

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Climate Change, Photosynthesis, and Misleading Information: Navigating Critical Thinking and Scientific Reasoning in the Classrooom

Do plants benefit from increased levels of CO2?...

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Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Expand students’ understanding of climate and climate change through an exploration of the geologic record. ...

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Using Packrat Midden Models to Investigate Climate Variability

Explore past climates with these unique natural archives....

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The Seabird Mystery Lesson: Integrating Science Inquiry and Science Literacy

Can your students explain why auklets are dying?...

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A Gassy World: A Climate Change Investigation

Will warming oceans be better or worse at absorbing CO2?...

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Integrating Technology: Lens on Climate Change: Using Place-Based Learning to Explore Climate Change Effects

This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article describes a student-driven approach to learning and communicating about climate change, in which students create a short, document...

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From the Editor's Desk: Tackling the Complex Issue of Climate Change

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

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Citizen Science: Be a Bat Detective!

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Students classify bat calls by listening to short clips of sound recordings online....

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Disequilibrium: Measuring Our Rising Sea Levels

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Does the melting Antarctica ice cause sea levels to rise more than melting Arctic ice? This month’s discrepant event answers this question....

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Listserv Roundup: Growth Mindset in the Classroom

This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. This month's column provides tips that can help teachers promote a community of growth mindset learners in the classroom....

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Science For All: Self-Improvement Through Goal Setting

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. In September's column, the authors discussed the importance of grit and how you can help your students become grittier throughout the school year. In addition to the suggestions we gave...

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Teacher to Teacher: Vote, Discuss, Revote: A Formative Assessment Classroom Technique

This column provides practical advice from your peers. Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques, or FACTS, allow teachers to assess student thinking. This article discusses the Vote-Discuss-Revote (VDR) FACT. VDR provides students with a question o...

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Scope on the Skies: A Candle in Space

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the challenges of measuring distances to celestial objects....

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Is the Climate Changing Where We Live?

Using data to investigate local climate change....

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Using Models to Understand Sea Level Rise

A novel way to learn about science content and the practice of modeling....

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From Global to Local

Connecting global climate change to a local ecosystem using a socioscientific issue approach....

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What’s Inside a Termite’s Gut?

Exploring endosymbiosis, osmosis, and homeostasis....

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How Quickly Do They React?

Students conduct ruler-drop tests to determine their peers’ reaction times....

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Editor's Corner: Hot Topic

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

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Commentary: Why the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Matters for Science Education

An opinion piece about what scientific consensus on climate change actually means....

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Science 2.0: Teaching the Facts About Climate Change

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the need for teachers to ensure that students learn the scientific facts about climate change, absent of bias and assumption....

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Focus on Physics: The Ever-Present Atmospheric Pressure

This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. In this issue atmospheric pressure is explained....

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Career of the Month: Climate Scientist

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Melissa Allen's career path to becoming a climate scientist....

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Right to the Source: Thomas Jefferson’s Observations on the American Climate

Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses a page from an 1832 printing of Notes On the State of Virginia...

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Toward High School Biology: Understanding Growth in Living Things, Teacher Edition (Book sample chapter)

Would you like to challenge your middle school students to explain a range of phenomena—from how nylon thread can form from two clear, colorless liquids to how a snake that eats only eggs can make body structures such as skin and scales that don’...

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Building the Science Department: Stories of Success (Book Sample)

How can your science department become a site for developing science teachers’ professional learning? Building the Science Department answers that question through stories from teachers who walk the sometimes rocky path of reforming science teachin...

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Transportation in the Future, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book sample chapter)

What if you could challenge your third graders to design the train of the future? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Transportation in the Future outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic pro...