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Earth History Theories: Relative Age Dating Lab With Additions for Mining and Mineral Exploration

Dig into this stratigraphy lab to learn how scientists assign ages to specific rock layers....

Middle School Earth & Space Science 5E Instructional Materials

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Exploring Lunar and Solar Eclipses Via a 3-D Modeling Design Task

Develop, enlarge, and refine students’ understanding of eclipse events with a 7E learning-cycle model....

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From the Editor's Desk: Tying It All Together With Earth Science

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

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The Four Strands of Science Learning and the Next Generation Science Standards

How you can create greater proficiency in your middle school classroom....

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Teacher's Toolkit: Puzzle Boxes for 3-D Learning About Natural Hazards

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. In this month’s issue the author describes how he has modified his toy blocks and cubes lessons to introduce students to the nature of scientific research to have ...

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Classic Lessons 2.0: Using Multiple Representations to Teach Science

This column shares updated perennial classroom favorites. This article demonstrates how teachers can use six major steps of using multiple representations to teach a difficult scientific concept, Moon phases, which many middle school students struggl...

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Citizen Science: Clouds in the Classroom

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. With Students’ Cloud Observations On-Line (S’COOL), you can bring the science of the skies to your classr...

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Disequilibrium: Forming Clouds in the Classroom

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event allows students to model condensation, the portion of the hydrologic cycle in which water vapor condenses into liquid form and creates a cloud....

Middle School Earth & Space Science 5E Inquiry Phenomena

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Teacher to Teacher: Phenomenal Engagement

This column provides practical advice from your peers. One way to engage middle school students is through the use of relevant scientific phenomena. A scientific phenomenon is something (such as an interesting fact or event) that can be observed and ...

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Listserv Roundup: Finding and Saving Earth Science Resources

This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. Learn about Earth science resources on NSTA e-mail listservs where there is an abundance of teacher-shared materials and websites r...

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Science for All: Literacy Engagement and Its Role in the Science Classroom

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's issues describes how to choose content-area reading materials with purpose....

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Scope on the Skies: Connected Computing

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses how students can partake in scientific research through distributed computing, where the computing for a research project is done on a network of computers in diffe...

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The Art-Science Connection

Students create art inspired by extracurricular lab investigations....

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Science and Art in the National Parks

Celebrating the centennial of the U.S. National Park Service....

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Getting an A in STEM

Beginning a STEAM collaboration between art and chemistry students....

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Sculpting the Barnyard Gene Pool

Immersing students in the science and engineering of chicken genetics and hatcheries....

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Measuring Metabolism

Examining the effects of temperature on the metabolic rates of beetles....

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Editor's Corner: Science and the Arts

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

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Science 2.0: Students as Empowered Learners

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the Empowered Learner standard, which requires that “students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in thei...

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Focus on Physics: Skateboard Physics

This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's issue uses physics to explain a skateboard move....

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Health Wise: If Students Injure Their Heads

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 what happens when students get concussions....

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Career of the Month: Acoustical Consultant

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Pantelis Vassilakis's career path to becoming an acoustical consultant....

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Right to the Source: Dancing With Radium

Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses how when the chemical element radium was first discovered in 1898, it was thought to be a cure for everything. The original document examined is the sheet music ...

eBook

Argument-Driven Inquiry in Physical Science: Lab Investigations for Grades 6-8 (e-book)

Are you interested in using argument-driven inquiry for middle school lab instruction but just aren’t sure how to do it? Argument-Driven Inquiry in Physical Science will provide you with both the information and instructional materials you need to ...

NSTA Press Book

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings (library binding)

Take a trip through time to discover the value of a special place to jot your thoughts, whether you’re a famous scientist or a student. Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings brings to life the many ways in which everyone from Galileo to ...

By Jessica Fries-Gaither

NSTA Kids

From Flower to Fruit

From Flower to Fruit will transform curious readers—children and adults—into budding botanists. The book draws you in with the twin charms of rich illustrations and an engaging narrative. But this is more than just a pretty storybook. It spar...

Workshop

Online Courses: AMNH Seminars on Science: Climate Change

Earth and Environmental Science How does the global climate system work, and what is the evidence that human activity is affecting it?...

Book Chapter

Next Time You See a Cloud (Sample)

Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science behind these beautiful displays. Author Emily Morgan answers...

Workshop

Online Courses: AMNH Seminars on Science: The Brain: Structure, Function and Evolution

Neuroscience How does this remarkable three-pound organ interpret sensory input, control behavior, and shape who we are?...