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Read All About It

Exploring multiple genres of writing ensures students get a fuller picture of science....

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Dissecting Student Dialogue

Speaking and listening, in the form of collaborative conversation, enhances the depth of students’ science knowledge....

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Learning Science in a Second Language

Incorporating science notebooks into a fifth-grade language immersion program accentuates the learning in both science and writing....

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Supporting Academic Language

Simple strategies can encourage the use of scientific vocabulary, language, and discussion....

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Sensing Matter—Is It a Liquid or Solid?

Students classify materials based on physical properties....

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The Poetry of Science: What Do Scientists Do?

Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways....

Elementary General Science Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Literacy

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Recording Scientific Explorations

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue has students engaging in documentation when they perform investigations and sketch, label, or provide details about their work and findings....

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

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The Early Years: Getting Deep With Documentation

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this kindergarten practice, storytelling leads to drawing, adding more detail, and then writing as literacy skills are developed....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Science and Engineering Practices Literacy

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Science 101: How Does Speech-Recognition Software Work?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue explains the origins of speech-recognition software....

Elementary Middle School Engineering Physical Science Technology Professional Learning old

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Science 102: Raindrops Keep Falling Answer

This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue answers the Raindrops Keep Falling challenge from last month....

Elementary Middle School Earth & Space Science Physical Science Inquiry Phenomena

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Engineering Encounters: An Engineering Design Process for Early Childhood

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information about trying (again) to engineer an egg package....

Early Childhood

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Methods and Strategies: Put Your Walls to Work

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses planning and using interactive word walls to support science and reading instruction....

Elementary Earth & Space Science General Science 5E Crosscutting Concepts Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Literacy

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Editor's Note: Meeting the Challenges of Communicating Science

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

NGSS Literacy

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“Accelerating” Science Learning With Reading

Use close reading to explore the physical science topics of force, motion, and acceleration....

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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Gene Therapy

Integrate T-W-L-H-Q, Word Splash, and discussion-based literacy strategies into a genetics unit....

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Learning to Read Science

Explore the unique challenges students face when reading science texts....

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Using Place-Based, Structured Inquiry to Motivate At-Risk Students

Engage students with real-world activities that address the needs of the school, community, and region....

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From the Editor's Desk: Speaking Up for All

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

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Classic Lessons 2.0: Science Cafés

This column shares updated perennial classroom favorites. An affordable, easy-to-implement model that introduces young girls to STEM-related topics, careers, and role models....

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Teacher's Toolkit: Rocking Out Science!

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue describes how to use music videos to engage students and assess science learning....

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Citizen Science: Fly Into Schoolyard Citizen Science With eBird

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Engage students in science as you contribute authentic data to eBird by uploading bird surveys conducted in ...

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Disequilibrium: Edible Candles

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Students must distinguish between observations and inferences. This month’s discrepant event will refresh your students’ knowledge about the difference between the two....

Middle School General Science 5E Phenomena

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Science for All: Accessibility at the Onset

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. By beginning class with a task that the majority of students will be able to complete on their own, such as asking an open-ended question, you will foster a welcoming classroom environm...

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Listserv Roundup: Four Essential Strategies for Differentiating Science Lessons

This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. In this month’s column, the author focuses on the general differentiation advice shared via the NSTA e-mail listservs....

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Teacher to Teacher: Instructional Scaffolds Can Support Students

This column provides practical advice from your peers. The author discusses two scaffolds that she uses to support student writing: writing frames and graphic organizers....

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Scope on the Skies: The Historic Stars in Our Skies

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the luminosity, or apparent brightness, of some stars as seen from Earth....

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Materials Science and the Problem of Garbage

Where does all that stuff go?...

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Learning From the Fruit Fly

A card game for teaching Mendel’s laws, meiosis, and Punnett squares....

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Settling the Score

Exploring the historic debate over atomic bonding....

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The Microscopic World of Diatoms

Students collect stream water to study a biological indicator that can help detect pollution....

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Editor’s Corner: Growing Mountains of Trash

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

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Science 2.0: When Students Become Digital Citizens

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month, the authors discuss the Digital Citizen standard where “students(will) recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected ...

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Focus on Physics: The Moon Is Falling!

This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's column describes the sideways motion of tangential velocity, which keeps the Moon and all artificial Earth satellites falling around rather than into our planet....

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The Green Room: Losing Sight of Our Stars

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses light pollution and the different activities to investigate this problem....

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Health Wise: Too Many Teens Have High Cholesterol

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 teens and cholesterol....