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Editor's Note: Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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An opinion piece about the NGSS Crosscutting Concepts....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Patterns Are Observable, Predictable, and Explainable
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. The activities developed for this month’s issue use everyday phenomena to help students understand what a pattern is and how it connects to understanding science....
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The Early Years: Leaf It to Nature
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue describes how patterns relate to a leaf classification activity....
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Science 101: How Does the Motion of the Earth Affect Our View of the Sun?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses the Sun's analemma pattern....
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Methods and Strategies: Biography as Mentor
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses using texts to teach science and literacy through the NGSS and CCSS....
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Engineering Encounters: How to Develop an Engineering Design Task
Create your own design activity in seven steps....
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Use the 5E model to discover what goes on under lake ice during winter....
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Combine different modeling activities to deepen students' understanding of molecular motion and solubility....
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Generating, Evaluating, and Modifying Scientific Models Using Projected Computer Simulations
Explore disciplinary core ideas with the help of computer simulations that can be projected to promote engagement....
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Eureka!Causal Thinking About Molecules and Matter
Take a nonlinear approach to battle misconceptions about matter and its properties....
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Conservation of Matter in the Life Sciences
Create terraria to teach plant functions, matter cycling, and the conservation of matter....
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Students Modeling Molecule Movement Through Science Theater
Act out a puzzling scientific phenomenon to make sense of unobservable interactions between matter and energy....
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Teaching Electromagnetic Waves Used in Communication Technologies
Use this set of lessons to explore how electromagnetic waves make modern communication technology possible....
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Editor's Roundtable: Cause and Effect
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue describes a framework for understanding the basic structure of reasoning in scientific arguments, illustrating it with examples drawn from class...
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Scope on Safety: Storing STEM Projects Safely
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses storage safety precautions....
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Scope on the Skies: Eclipse Season
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses solar and lunar eclipses....
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Calculating Biodiversity in the Real World
Students go outdoors to compare biodiversity in two wooded areas using Simpson's index....
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Online multimedia vignettes enable students to experience the lives of working conservation scientists....
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Putting New Life in an Old Lesson
How we modified a lab activity to align with the Next Generation Science Standards....
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Editor's Corner: Ecosystems on the Brink
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Science 2.0: The Power of Tagging
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses how to organize online work through tagging....
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The Green Room: Measure Your Community's Smog Levels
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue offers activities relating to air pollution....
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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Putting the Science Into Science Teacher
This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue offers teachers ways to stay engaged in science....
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Health Wise: Busting 10 Myths About Diabetes
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 tries to correct misconceptions surrounding diabetes....
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Career of the Month: Volcanologist
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Larry Mastin's career path to becoming a volcanologist....
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Safer Science: Corrosives: A Burning Safety Issue
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the types of corrosives common in high school labs....
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Right to the Source: The Secrets of Patent Medicines
More than 70 patent medicine labels and advertisements are available at the Library of Congress....
Book Chapter
Mrs. Carter's Butterfly Garden sample
In this free sample from Mrs. Carter's Butterfly Garden, young naturalists will gain information about a very special butterfly garden. Children can learn from Mrs. Carter’s example why it’s good for people when butterflies have welcoming spaces ...
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This free sample from My School Yard Garden will help children learn what insects, animals, and plants need to thrive—and how much fun it is to observe and record it all. My School Yard Garden is proof that you can learn a lot from a garden, no mat...
Book Chapter
K-12 Progressions, Elementary School
This free sample chapter shows the K–12 progression of each of the components in the foundation box (e.g., practices, core ideas, or connection to nature of science). These matrixes will help you understand what students are expected to know and d...
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The purpose of this free sample lab is to introduce students to the physical and chemical properties of acids and bases. The lab can be used at the beginning of a unit on acid-base chemistry to set the stage for future lessons and investigations. Thi...
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K-12 Progressions, Middle School
This free sample chapter shows the K–12 progression of each of the components in the foundation box (e.g., practices, core ideas, or connection to nature of science). These matrixes will help you understand what students are expected to know and d...
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K-12 Progressions, High School
This free sample chapter shows the K–12 progression of each of the components in the foundation box (e.g., practices, core ideas, or connection to nature of science). These matrixes will help you understand what students are expected to know and d...
Book Chapter
This free sample chapter shows the K–12 progression of each of the components in the foundation box (e.g., practices, core ideas, or connection to nature of science). These matrixes will help you understand what students are expected to know and d...
eBook
My School Yard Garden (e-book)
This colorful book takes students on a ramble through a school yard garden—past the seeding beds, along the compost bin, and over to the bird house and bird bath. Along the way, children learn what insects, animals, and plants need to thrive and di...
NSTA Press Book
The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the NGSS, Middle School
Since the release of the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), NSTA has been at the forefront in promoting the standards and helping science educators become familiar with and learn to navigate this exciting but complex documen...