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No Space? Little Money? No Garden? Not So Fast!

Start a cost-effective, compact school garden to teach your students about plant growth....

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Plotting Plants: Tracking Invasive Species in the Local Community

Overcome "plant blindness" with a study of invasive species....

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Editor's Roundtable: Branching Out on the Family Tree

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

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Guest Editorial: Making the Most of Your Outdoor Classroom

An opinion piece about how to create an outdoor learning center and incorporate relevant lessons....

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Tried and True: A Water Cycle of Many Paths

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue describes an activity that allows students to explore the complexity of the water cycle, create their own model of it, and connect it to the processes ...

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Scope on Safety: Safety on the Move

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses safety related to hands-on activities for the study of force and motion....

Middle School Physical Science Labs Safety

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Scope on the Skies: A New Year, A New World View

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue takes a look at Earth through the eyes of some of the many Earth-observing satellites....

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Editor's Note: Systems and System Models

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

General Science Crosscutting Concepts Instructional Materials Lesson Plans NGSS

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The Early Years: Exploring Systems

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue describes a lesson that connects across several early childhood standards, including engineering design....

Early Childhood Elementary Engineering Crosscutting Concepts

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Formative Assessment Probes: Ice Cubes in a Bag

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to uncover children's ideas about open and closed systems....

Elementary Assessment Crosscutting Concepts

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Teaching Through Trade Books: What's the Big Deal About Bees?

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this month’s issue students explore the essential role of bees in our ecosystems and why the loss of bees is a very big deal....

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Science 101: How Should We Use the Concept of Systems?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue provides activities to help explain how to teach about systems....

Elementary Middle School Crosscutting Concepts Learning Progression Professional Learning old

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Project-Based Science

Engaging students in three-dimensional learning. ...

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Methods and Strategies: The Future of Farming

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes an integrated, multidisciplinary unit that introduces second-grade students to hydroponic gardening....

Elementary Life Science Mathematics Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary

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Engineering Encounters: A System of Systems

A STEM investigation project for intermediate students has real-life connections....

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Near-Space Science

A ballooning project to engage students with space beyond the big screen....

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Global Warning

Project-based science inspired by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change....

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Treating Pompe Disease

Exploring cause and effect through a disease model....

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The Community Connection

Engaging students and community partners in project-based science....

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EQuIP-ped for Success

Measure the alignment and overall quality of your lessons and units with a rubric to help implement the Next Generation Science Standards....

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Editor's Corner: Project-Based Science Learning

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

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Science 2.0: Collaborative Data Collection via Google Forms

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue describes a collaborative model of data collection....

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The Green Room: Symbiotic Relationships

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses activities that explore symbiotic relationships....

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Health Wise: Pardon Me? Helping Students Avoid Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

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 ways students can learn about noise-induced hearing loss....

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Career of the Month: Research Chemist

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Joseph Parker's career path to becoming a research chemist....

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Safer Science: Avoiding Irritants in the Lab

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue gives guidelines for using irritants safely....

High School Chemistry Labs Safety

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The Role of Online Homework in Low-Enrollment College Introductory Physics Courses

This study reveals the role of the online homework assignments as a predictor in the development of problem-solving skills for students taking introductory physics courses at a small liberal arts college. The results suggest that performance on onlin...

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It Takes a Village to Make a Scientist: Reflections of a Faculty Learning Community

This article describes the many challenges in trying to create more authentic undergraduate student research experiences and the significant progress the authors have made in making such experiences more common for students....

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Incorporating More Individual Accountability in Group Activities in General Chemistry

A modified model of cooperative learning known as the GIG model (for group-individual-group) was designed and implemented in a large enrollment freshman chemistry course. The goal of the model is to establish a cooperative environment while emphasizi...

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Planning and Implementing a Comprehensive Student-Centered Research Program for First-Year STEM Undergraduates

A large research university developed a program that incorporates multiple forms of student-centered programming with a focus on research. Learning Environment and Academic Research Network (LEARN) is a living-learning community wherin first-year stu...

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Changing College Majors: Does It Happen More in STEM and Do Grades Matter?

This study examines the within-field persistence rates of physical science/engineering students compared with those of students in life science, business, social science, education, and humanities....

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Developing University and Community Partnerships: A Critical Piece of Successful Service Learning

This article talks about developing a partnership framework through purposeful communication with all partners for a successful service-learning project....

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Research and Teaching: Effects of a Science Content Course on Elementary Preservice Teachers' Self-Efficacy of Teaching Science

This article describes a teacher preparation program at a large Midwestern university that was modified to include a new science content course aimed at the need for successfully preparing elementary teachers to teach science in their classrooms....

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Research and Teaching: Implementing Comprehensive Reform of Introductory Physics at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution: A Longitudinal Case Study

This study looks at the results of implementing education research-based curricular reform that took place over seven years....

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Research and Teaching: A New "Class" of Undergraduate Professors: Examining Teaching Beliefs and Practices of Science Faculty With Education Specialties

This articles highlights the teaching beliefs and classroom practices of a sample of science faculty with educational specialties (SFES) to promote the importance of understanding these attributes in faculty embedded within disciplinary departments i...

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Two-Year Community: Learning How Students Learn: An Exploration of Self-Regulation Strategies in a Two-Year College General Chemistry Class

This study investigated how students in an urban 2-year college used self-regulation strategies in a General Chemistry I course and whether their use was correlated with both performance and the ability to correctly predict performance on a course ex...

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Case Study: Grandma's TUM-my Trouble: A Case Study in Renal Physiology and Acid-Base Balance

This case study involves the role of the kidneys in regulating blood pH and electrolytes. Concepts related to pharmacology and therapeutics are also introduced....

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EQuIP-ped for Success

A rubric to help implement the Next Generation Science Standards....