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Scampering Into Engineering!

A "snapshot of science" program brings science and engineering into the library....

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Gimme an "E"!

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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The EDP-5E

A rethinking of the 5E replaces exploration with engineering design....

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Community-Based Engineering

A design task helps students identify and find solutions to a school-yard problem....

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Editor's Note: STEM

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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Science 102: Mirror, Mirror

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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Using Professional Noticing to Address Middle Level Students' Alternative Conceptions of Lunar Phases

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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Teacher's Toolkit: A Visual Representation of Three-Dimensional Learning: A Tool for Evaluating Curriculum

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...

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Scope on Safety: Detoxing the Lab

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses how to reduce the risk when working with toxic substances....

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Scope on the Skies: Pulling Together an Understanding of the Earth–Moon System

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the gravitational pull that exists between the Earth and our Moon....

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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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A Rising Tide

Students explore the effects of thermal expansion on sea levels—both globally and close to home....

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Ocean Acidification

Engaging students in solving a systems-level, global problem....

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The Resource Beneath Our Feet

Gaining a new awareness during the International Year of Soils....

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The E-mail Lab

Teaching nature of science and science practices through story construction....

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Teaching Science Through Inquiry

Seven common myths about this time-honored approach....

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Editor's Corner: Our Changing Earth

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

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Science 2.0: A Social Media Primer

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses how to use social media as a tool for students' learning....

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The Green Room: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Five Years Later

Use this valuable instructional tool to differentiate instruction for all students....

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Health Wise: Reducing Teen Pregnancy

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 teen birth rate....

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Safer Science: Handling Hazardous Waste

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the definition of and handling of hazardous waste....

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Career of the Month: Hydrologist

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Don Cline's career path to becoming a hydrologist....