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Science 2.0: Flipping Tools for the Science Classroom

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses screencasting and podcasting....

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The Green Room: A New International Climate Change Agreement

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses activities related to a new international climate change agreement....

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Health Wise: Why Teens Take Risks

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 reasons that teens—especially boys—are known for taking risks....

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Career of the Month: Nuclear Engineer

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Bill Kohlroser's career path to becoming a nuclear engineer....

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Safer Science: STEM Safety: A Collaborative Effort

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses how to be safe when planning integrated STEM programs....

High School STEM Safety

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How College-Level Introductory Instruction Can Impact Student Epistemological Beliefs

This article describes a survey study of college students' epistemologies about biology and learning biology. Specifically, the authors examined the differences between science and nonscience majors and their changes in epistemologies over the course...

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Building the Impetus for Change: An Across-Curriculum Initiative in Biology

The authors wanted to improve student learning of evolutionary concepts by integrating content across the biology major. In this article they describe the process used to develop support among members of the department and administration to implement...

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Writing Stories in the Sciences

Writing stories is advocated as an excellent means of learning the process of science; however, little is understood about students' experiences of engaging in story writing in postsecondary science courses. The study described in this article was de...

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Higher Education Faculty Collaboration With K–12 Teachers as a Professional Development Experience for Faculty

This article reports on the potential of higher education science faculty involvement in a K–12 scientist–teacher partnership as a source of faculty professional development....

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Usefulness of Livescribe Web Recordings as Supplemental Resources for a Large Lecture Undergraduate Course

Livescribe pencasts, which are interactive online versions of notes and audio, were created as supplementary resources to help students understand core undergraduate cell biology topics....

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Authentic Science Research Opportunities: How Do Undergraduate Students Begin Integration Into a Science Community of Practice?

The goal of the study described was to understand the process and degree to which an undergraduate science research program for rising college freshmen achieved its stated objectives to integrate participants into a community of practice and to devel...

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Research and Teaching: Toward Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Using Osmotic Pressure as an Example for Analyzing Textbook Explanations

Despite the increasing interests and practices in interdisciplinary science education, little research has been documented to develop effective assessments targeting students' interdisciplinary learning. In response to this gap, a team of scientists ...

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Research and Teaching: The Roles of Mentoring and Motivation in Student Teaching Assistant Interactions and in Improving Experience in First-Year Biology Laboratory Classes

The authors investigated the impact of changing student–TA relations to include a sense of mentoring by redesigning TA allocations so that students worked with the same TA throughout the semester, but without changing student-to-TA ratios....

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Research and Teaching: Broadening Access to Science With Support for the Whole Student in a Residential Liberal Arts College Environment

This article describes two cohort programs that were used to support students from groups underrepresented in STEM fields at Carleton College. These programs were designed to support three aspects of student development: students' drive to succeed in...

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Two-Year Community: A 3+8 Model of Undergraduate Research for Community College STEM Majors

This article describes the implementation of an innovative undergraduate research model for students attending a two-year institution. It gives students an opportunity to engage in undergraduate research at nearby four-year institutions, which provid...

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Case Study: Testing With Case Studies

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue discusses using case studies to test for knowledge or lessons learned....

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Inviting Engineering Into the Science Lab

Two guided-inquiry lessons display the integration of NGSS engineering practices into traditional elementary labs....

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Our Garden Plot Thickens

An interdisciplinary classroom study provides fifth graders with opportunities to explore the properties of soil....

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Blade Structure and Wind Turbine Function

Third and fifth graders co-investigate and co-design wind turbine blades and voltage output....

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Bringing Your Classroom to Life

Exploring the relationship between structure and function in living things....

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Inventing Mystery Machines

Collaborating to improve teacher STEM preparation....

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12

Books published in 2014....

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Editor's Note: Structure and Function

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

Engineering General Science STEM Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Lesson Plans

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Every Part Has a Purpose

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this month’s issue students explore the structure and function of designed objects, introducing them to the world of engineering....

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The Early Years: Getting Messy With Matter

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue shows how students experience painting on a variety of surfaces and compare their observations of the paint-surface relationship....

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Safety First: Safer Science Explorations for Young Children

This article discusses preparation for science exploration safety for preK through grade 2....

Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Lesson Plans Safety

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Formative Assessment Probes: Soil and Dirt: The Same or Different?

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores children's commonly held ideas about soil....

Elementary Earth & Space Science Assessment Crosscutting Concepts

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Engineering Encounters: Am I Really Teaching Engineering to Elementary Students?

Lessons from an environmental engineering summer camp for first and second graders....

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Methods and Strategies: Bringing the Outside In

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month’s issue students learn ecology through the study of native plants....

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Science 101: What Do We Mean by Structure and Function in Science?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue explores the meaning of structure and function....

Elementary Middle School Crosscutting Concepts Learning Progression Professional Learning old

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Biomimicry: The "Natural" Intersection of Biology and Engineering

Combine standards from engineering and biology while designing technology inspired by nature....

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Bringing Historical Scientific Arguments Back to Life: The Case of Continental Drift

Reexamine the scientific debates that surrounded the birth of the theory of plate tectonics....

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Why Theories Do Not Turn Into Laws

Explore what scientists mean when they talk about laws and theories, with the help of a cube and cards....

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For the Love of Infographics

Use a visual approach to identify an organism's structural and behavioral adaptations and explain how they increase its chances of survival....

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12

Books published in 2014 and selected by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council....

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The Surprising Patterns of Health and Disease

Learn how connecting seemingly unrelated patterns can lead to unexpected scientific discoveries....

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Editor's Roundtable: Crosscutting Concepts: The Ties That Bind

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

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Guest Editorial: Interdisciplinary Science: A Fresh Approach From the Past

An opinion piece about integrated learning....

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Everyday Engineering: Budding Sound Engineers: Listening to Speakers and Earbuds

In this 5E learning-cycle lesson, students construct a simple speaker consisting of a coil of wire, a magnet, and a disposable cup for a diaphragm that is connected to an MP3 player. Students then evaluate competing design solutions to determine how ...

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Tried and True: Let's Play That Again! Engaging Students in Ecology by Using Instructional Games

Teachers can harness the power of play as an instructional strategy in their classrooms. This article describes two ecological games that can be used in an outdoor education context or in a classroom....