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Beluga Whales: Hyphothesis Generation and Evaluation
Examine data collected during a four-year study to determine whether the seasons affect the behavior of beluga whales....
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Go, Turtle, Go: Measuring Motion to Build Proficiency in Science
Have students plan an investigation that will provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on sum of the forces acting on the object and its mass....
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Integrating Technology: Using Google Forms to Collect and Analyze Data
This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. Google Forms is used for a lab activity described in this article during a unit on the circulatory system....
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Classic Lessons 2.0: Using Math to Support Claims About Wind-Dispersed Seeds
This column shares updated perennial classroom favorites. In this lab exercise, students make a claim about factors influencing the travel distance of wind-dispersed seeds and then use the engineering design process to create a fruit that will disper...
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This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This article describes an inquiry-based activity that teaches students the importance of random sampling, a critical component of many ecology investigations....
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From the Editor's Desk: Keeping Math in Perspective
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Commentary: The Importance of Cultivating Empathy in STEM
An opinion piece about how seeking to understand another’s perspective, or what many call engaging in empathy work, can help middle school students better understand how STEM-related issues can affect people and society....
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Citizen Science: It Alll Adds Up: Wildcam Gorongosa Citizen Science
This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. There is a concerted global effort to conserve Gorongosa’s indigenous wildlife and restore the park’s nat...
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Disequilibrium: Layered Liquids
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Students may hold onto the misconception that all liquids naturally combine when put into the same container (e.g., adding food coloring to water and adding chocolate syrup to...
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Listserv Roundup: Ways to Increase Math Confidence in Science Class
This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. There are many effective ways to increase student excitement about and confidence in math in the science classroom. In this column,...
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Science for All: Making Science Visible
This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. Students need ways to create visual structures for information they’re learning so that they can synthesize, organize, and, eventually, store that information for the long term. The ...
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Teacher to Teacher: Analyzing Data With Mean Absolute Deviation
This column provides practical advice from your peers. Teachers need to emphasize that when analyzing and interpreting data, multiple trials produce the best test results. Students often struggle with understanding the significance of this science ...
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Scope on the Skies: The Universe, From Micro to Macro
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. Some middle school students may have trouble understanding subatomic particles and neutrinos, but the topic is suitable for more advanced students. Before students can delve into the neutrino pro...
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“I don’t get it.” Assisting Spanglish-speaking students in the science classroom....
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Supporting Students With Autism
A lesson embedded with strategies addressing students with autism spectrum disorder....
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Visually impaired students can conduct independent science investigations....
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The Science Standards and Students of Color
Finding classroom approaches that work....
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Students as Environmental Educators
Science students conduct a program for preschoolers to raise awareness of pollution in a local creek....
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Editor's Corner: Huddled Masses
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Commentary: Going Beyond the Textbook
An opinion piece discusses why students need to see connections between science learning and their experiences and cultures....
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Science 2.0: Communicating Science Creatively
This column shares web tools that support learning. The authors have been covering the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards in every issue since September. This month, they examine the final standard, called Creative Co...
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The Green Room: How Border Walls Affect Wildlife
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses how the proposed wall along the U.S.–Mexico border would significantly affect wildlife....
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Focus on Physics: The Delightful Catenary Curve
The author uses the curve called a catenary to explain how he teaches about tension and compression related to geometrical structures such as bridges, arches, and domes....
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Health Wise: Acne: Myth vs. Fact
This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses acne....
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Career of the Month: Automotive Engineer
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Jeff Johnston's career path to becoming an automotive engineer....
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Right to the Source: Don’t Be Like Muddy Jim
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the book Muddy Jim and Other Rhymes....
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Fifth graders focus on unique properties of matter to separate a mixture....
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A STEAM activity has students paint with the power of chemical reactions....
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Are Clouds a Solid, Liquid, or Gas?
Confronting fifth graders’ misconceptions about states of matter and the water cycle...
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Modifying a “well-worn” activity to explore matter classification...
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Developing young scientists’ understanding of matter begins with an exploration of properties....
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Eclipses Across the Curriculum
The 2017 Great American Total Solar Eclipse coming up in August provides many opportunities for integrated lessons....
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Editor's Note: Small Pieces of Matter
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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The Early Years: Mixing Materials
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses how students can observe the properties of matter and document changes as materials are mixed....
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Poetry of Science: What’s the Matter?
Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways. Students identify the ways in which matter is described and classified in this month's poem....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Matter All Around Us
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s activities allow students to develop an “understanding of observable properties of materials [which] is developed by … analysis and classification” (NGSS Lead S...
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Science 101: Why Does It Take Longer to Boil Potatoes at High Altitudes?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue looks at why water boils at different temperatures at different altitudes....
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Science 102: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue presents a new challenge and answers the Raindrops Keep Falling challenge from last month. ...
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Engineering Encounters: Reverse Engineering
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information on how students’ everyday experiences can support science learning through engineering design. In this article, the authors outline a ...