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Constructing Arguments With 3-D Printed Models

Fourth-grade students model the external structure and function of bottom-dwelling fish....

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Crime Scene Soil Investigation

Fifth graders use mobile learning to solve a “crime.”...

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Zooming in on Science

Using technology in a garden unit enhances both subjects....

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Science Notebooks for the 21st Century

Going digital provides opportunities to learn with technology rather than from technology....

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Get Ready for the Great American Eclipse!

A once-in-a-lifetime event provides an opportunity to increase science literacy....

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What’s Lurking in Our Lake?

Technology aids second-grade students in data collection....

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Editor's Note: The Dilemmas of Technology

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

Technology Assessment Curriculum Instructional Materials

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The Poetry of Science: Think It, Build It, Make It

Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways. This issue discusses inventing with technology....

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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....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Technology Teaching Strategies

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Teaming Up: Trade Books and Technology

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s trade books teach students about external and internal structures that allow animals and humans to survive....

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

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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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Methods and Strategies: Using Argument-Based Inquiry Strategies for STEM Infused Science Teaching

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This article focuses on an argument-based inquiry (ABI) approach to a fourth-grade unit on waves. A fourth-grade teacher included multiple opportunities for students to rea...

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Using Systems Mapping to Plan Scientific Investigations

Learn how to map mental models that students use to explain how the world works....

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Building Bots to Develop Systems Thinking

Construct a scribble bot and determine how each part functions to form a system....

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Diving Into Buoyancy

Build a submarine to explore how the density of an object affects its ability to float and sink....

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Call the Plumber! Engaging Students With Authentic Engineering Design Practices

Explore the plumbing of a house to build an optimal physical model of the system....

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Classic Lessons 2.0: Falling Into Understanding

This column shares updated perennial classroom favorites. In this lesson, seventh-grade students explore falling objects and try to explain why objects fall. Using a local university’s extensive exhibit on Galileo (see Resources), the teachers also...