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Looking Through the Energy Lens

A strategy helps students develop a fuller view of energy's role in a variety of phenomena....

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Go With the Flow

Fifth-grade students write about the flow of energy and matter through an ecosystem....

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Physical Education Meets Physical Science

An interdisciplinary lesson allows students to experience physical science firsthand....

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How Does My Brain Pay Attention?

A series of activities teaches students about attention and what they can do to control it....

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Inquiry-Based Science and the Next Generation Science Standards: A Magnetic Attraction

An emergent inquiry unit allows students to reach their own conclusions about magnets....

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Editor's Note: Energy and Matter

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

Elementary Physical Science Crosscutting Concepts NGSS

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Understanding Matter and Energy

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this month’s issue, students determine the characteristics of matter in its three states. They then explore what produces energy and how it can be transferred to another object...

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The Early Years: Where Does the "Warm" Go?

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue helps children learn about the transfer of heat from one material to another....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Physical Science Crosscutting Concepts Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

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Engineering Encounters: Think It, Design It, Build It, Test It, Refine It

A unit on water quality ends with a water filtration engineering design activity....

Elementary Engineering STEM Citizen Science

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Methods and Strategies: KLEWS to Explanation-Building in Science

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue provides an update to the KLEW chart, which adds a tool for explanation building....

Elementary General Science Assessment Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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Science 101: How Should We Label Different Kinds of Energy?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses different types of energy....

Elementary Middle School General Science Physical Science Professional Learning old

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Reading and Writing Alignment Across Content Areas

Align the literacy requirements of your science and social studies instruction with your reading and writing curriculum....

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Teaching Graph Literacy Across the Curriculum

Work with English and language arts teachers to improve students' ability to read and interpret graphs....

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The Who, What, When, Where, and How of Waves

Use the 5E learning cycle to explore the behavior and properties of waves....

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Using Disciplinary Literacy Strategies to Enhance Student Learning

Provide students with opportunities to work like real scientists to create memorable science lessons....

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Comic Relief: Using Comics and Illustrated Trade Books to Support Science Learning in First-Year English Language Learners

Use kid-friendly materials to strengthen understanding of concepts, practices, and how scientists do science....

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Science Haiku Art

Integrate science and art with this colorful classroom project....

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Editor's Roundtable: Literacy Provides Common Ground for standards

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

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Guest Editorial: Our Science Story: When Science Inquiry Meets the Common Core

An opinion piece that shares information about an interactive science journal....

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Tried and True: The Many Faces of Word Walls in Middle School Science Classrooms: Variability in Function and Content

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue provides useful information for science teachers about implementing interactive word walls as effective instructional tools in middle school....

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Scope on Safety: The Cutting Edge of Safety

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses how to care for sharps and use them safely....

Middle School General Science Labs Safety

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Scope on the Skies: Pictures Tell the Story

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue describes an investigation into how imaging, picture taking, and camera technology have changed over time. This activity engages students in all aspects of STEAM....

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Sinking In

Developing a model for understanding density....

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Beyond an Equation

Using the particulate nature of matter to explain density-related phenomena....

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Confronting Ambiguity in Science

Making socioscientific decisions even when the evidence is unclear....