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Reading and Writing Alignment Across Content Areas

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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....

Teaching Graph Literacy Across the 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....

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

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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....

Using Disciplinary Literacy Strategies to Enhance Student Learning

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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....

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

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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....

Science Haiku Art

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Science Haiku Art

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

Editor's Roundtable: Literacy Provides Common Ground for standards

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Editor's Roundtable: Literacy Provides Common Ground for standards

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

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

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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....

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

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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....

Scope on Safety: The Cutting Edge of Safety

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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

Scope on the Skies: Pictures Tell the Story

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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....

Sinking In

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Sinking In

Developing a model for understanding density....

Beyond an Equation

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Beyond an Equation

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

Confronting Ambiguity in Science

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Confronting Ambiguity in Science

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

Doing the Data Walk

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Doing the Data Walk

Ticker tapes for the 21st-century physics student....

Modeling Molecular Machinery

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Modeling Molecular Machinery

Activities, simulations, and computer-modeling programs help students visualize how proteins work....

Editor's Corner: Obtain, Evaluate, Communicate!

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Editor's Corner: Obtain, Evaluate, Communicate!

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

Science 2.0: Be Accessible Via Mobile Devices

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Science 2.0: Be Accessible Via Mobile Devices

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue looks at ways to achieve digital accessibility....

The Green Room: Where Have All the Bees Gone?

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The Green Room: Where Have All the Bees Gone?

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses the possible causes of colony collapse disorder....

Health Wise: Getting Teens to Eat Less Salt

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Health Wise: Getting Teens to Eat Less Salt

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 talks about the effects of a high-sodium diet and what teens can do to cut down on sodium inta...

Career of the Month: Science Writer

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Career of the Month: Science Writer

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Karen Fox's career path to becoming a science writer....

Safer Science: Avoid Overcrowding Your Lab

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Safer Science: Avoid Overcrowding Your Lab

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses occupancy load requirements for a safer learning and working environment....

Science Formative Assessment, Volume 2: 50 More Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning

NSTA Press Book

Science Formative Assessment, Volume 2: 50 More Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning

A Copublication of Corwin Press and NSTA Press This book shows readers how to use assessment to inform instruction and learning in the science classroom. In the bestselling first volume, Page Keeley shared 75 techniques that help K-12 science teache...

By Page Keeley

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