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Elementary Anatomy

Activities designed to teach preschool children about the human body....

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Learning About Plants With STEAM

In a yearlong unit on plants, students use art to make models of their subjects....

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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Purpose of Individual Parts and Processes

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. The activities in this month’s issue have students examine the purposes of different plant or animal parts and then adapt these to solve a human problem. Students also consider ho...

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

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Formative Assessment Probes: Big and Small Seeds

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue links formative assessment probes to the scientific practices....

Elementary Assessment NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

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The Early Years: Discovering Through Deconstruction

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue has students exploring the structure of and noticing parts of a fruit while taking it apart....

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Making the Transition to Three-Dimensional Teaching

An NGSS@NSTA curator and elementary science specialist shares how to evaluate teaching materials using the EQuIP rubric....

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Methods and Strategies: Oral Science Stories

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue shows how teachers can use culturally responsive storytelling to teach socioeconomically disadvantaged students....

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Engineering Encounters: No, David! But Yes, Design!

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue describes how kindergarten students are introduced to a design way of thinking....

Early Childhood

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Science 101: Q: How Do We Distinguish Between Living and Nonliving Things?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses the criteria used to define living versus nonliving....

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Science 102: The Speed of Light

This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue presents a new challenge and answers the Falling Pennies challenge from last month....

Elementary High School Middle School Physical Science Inquiry Phenomena

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Editor's Note: From Molecules to Organisms

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

Elementary Learning Progression NGSS

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Evaluating the Egg Drop: Using the EQuIp Rubric to Ensure Activities Meet the Next Generation Science Standards

Learn how to use the EQuIP rubric to see if your lab activities are living up to the new standards....

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WISEngineering Hydroponics: A Technology-Enhanced, Life Science Engineering Design Unit

Develop students’ understanding of photosynthesis and cellular respiration with this online engineering resource....

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Bone Tissue Engineering: An Interactive Engineering Design Module

Design and test a cranial mesh implant to learn how engineers apply science to solve real-world problems....

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Engineering Technology for the Digital World

Explain how 1s and 0s are used to create the digital world around us....

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Engineering Seltzer Rockets

Test and refine student-constructed rockets to explore the practices of science and engineering outlined in the NGSS....

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Editor's Roundtable: Saying Goodbye: An Editor's "Footprint" on Science Scope

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

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Teacher's Toolkit: The New Standard in Technology Education: 3-D Design Class

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue covers how three-dimensional printing is one way that you can involve your students in the design process while teaching them a completely new s...

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Tried and True: Falling in Style

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. In this month’s issue the author wanted her students to design a solution to a problem, test it, and innovate as necessary to improve the outcome. Additionally, she wante...

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Scope on Safety: Responding to Laboratory Accidents

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the need for ongoing safety training based on legal safety standards and better professional practices....

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Scope on the Skies: Juno's Route to Jupiter

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the end of Juno's five-year mission to Jupiter....

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Modeling DNA

Understanding the structure of DNA through models and motion....

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Explaining Ramps With Models

Strategies for engaging students in using models....

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Computer-Aided Drug Design

Computer modeling can help find new medicines to fight cancer....

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Simulating Life

Computational biomodeling replicates the activities of living organisms....

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Connecting the Visible World With the Invisible

Particulate diagrams deepen student understanding of chemistry....

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Crafting a Masterpiece

Use the EQuIP Rubric to transform your teaching....

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Editor's Corner: What Is a Scientific Model?

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

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Science 2.0: Soaring in a Digital Ecosystem

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses how students can use digital technology to its maximum benefit....

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Focus on Physics: The Equilibrium Rule—A Personal Discovery

This article discusses the equilibrium rule....

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Health Wise: Countering Poverty's Effects on Learning

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 the relationship between poverty and learning....

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Safer Science: Student Tests for Safer Labs

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the use of safety tests to help students demonstrate their proficiency in lab safety....

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Career of the Month: Paleoseismologist

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Chris Goldfinger's career path to becoming a paleoseismologist....

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A Community Mentoring Model for STEM Undergraduate Research Experiences

This article describes a community mentoring model for UREs that avoids some of the common pitfalls of the traditional paradigm while harnessing the power of learning communities to provide young scholars a stimulating collaborative STEM research exp...

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Learning Experiences of University Biology Faculty: A Qualitative Pilot Study

The study described in this article incorporates qualitative research through in-depth, individual, structured interviews with 12 biology faculty from two Midwestern universities to explore perceptions about how they have learned to teach and how the...

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What Can Students Learn About Lab Safety From Mr. Bean?

Chemical laboratory safety education is often synonymous with boring, dry, drawn-out lectures. In an effort to challenge this norm and stimulate vivid learning opportunities about laboratory safety, college chemistry classes analyzed a short, humorou...

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Live From Boone Lake: Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning Meets Public Science Writing

As strong proponents of problem-based learning (PBL), the authors designed and taught an interdisciplinary, team–taught PBL course on Writing Science for the Public at a midsize northeastern state university. This approach led to emphasizing collab...

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Assessing Climate Literacy Content in Higher Education Science Courses: Distribution, Challenges, and Needs

The study described in this article is part of the Maryland and Delaware Climate Change Education Assessment and Research (MADE CLEAR) project, which aims to improve climate literacy in the K–16 population through systemic, sustainable change in te...

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Exploring the Science–Society Interface With a Bridging Research Course

This article describes the development of a model for an optional, research-based course that bridges two existing, traditionally separate, introductory science courses. This research course provided freedom for students to design and implement new e...

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Research and Teaching: Using Twitter in a Nonscience Major Science Class Increases Journal of College Science Teaching

Nonscience majors often rely on general internet searches to locate science information. This practice can lead to misconceptions because the returned search information can be unreliable. In this article the authors describe how they used the social...