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A "snapshot of science" program brings science and engineering into the library....
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Seven strategies for supporting the "E" in young children's STEM learning....
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Designing a Sound-Reducing Wall
Students explore engineering with a fun challenge....
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A design task helps students identify and find solutions to a school-yard problem....
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Answers to Teachers' Questions About the Next Generation Science Standards
Use this valuable instructional tool to differentiate instruction for all students....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Design Dilemmas
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. The activities in this month’s issue support the development of the engineering and design process and assist students in acquiring and applying scientific knowledge....
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The Early Years: Integrating Design
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue describes an activity to engage children in designing a system to move water (or marbles) from one location to another....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Where Do I Put the Switch?
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses using formative assessment probes that may surface and challenge ideas confronted during the engineering design process....
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Engineering Encounters: Engineering Adaptations
Many of the science investigations we use in our classrooms already can be adapted to engage students in engineering design....
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Methods and Strategies: Teaching in Real Time
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue shows how to integrate continuous formative assessment into inquiry-based classroom instruction....
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Science 101: How Do Acoustics Dictate the Design of a Concert Hall?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses why walls and other surfaces of a concert hall are angled so that the best sound can be produced....
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An exercise about reflection to challenge content knowledge....
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The Controversy Over Pluto: Planet or Astronomic Oddball?
Learn how studying scientific controversies can support scientific argumentation and increase science literacy....
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Botanical Heart Throbs: Heart Rate in Blackworms
Explore human-body systems with a series of hands-on neuroscience investigations....
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Discover how you can actively notice when students' explanations of phenomena differ from the accepted scientific explanation....
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Exploring the Science of Less-Familiar Forms of Animal "Flight"
Examine the physics and adaptive changes that allow animals to fall, parachute, and glide....
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Answers to Teachers' Questions About the Next Generation Science Standards
Use this valuable instructional tool to differentiate instruction for all students....
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Editor's Roundtable: Three-Dimensional Teaching
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Guest Editorial: Leading Learning: Teachers as Leaders and the Language of the NGSS
This article examines the language challenges that science teachers face when confronted with the NGSS reforms....
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Everyday Engineering: Keeping It Together—Fascinating Fasteners
This column provides an inside look at the marvels of engineering in everyday life. In this 5E learning-cycle lesson, students will construct and test a fastener of their own design and compare their design to those of their classmates....
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This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue focuses on demonstrating the power of visually representing the NGSS's three-dimensional learning model using a middle school lesson acquired fr...