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Editor's Roundtable: The NGSS Call to Reengineer Your Curriculum
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Guest Editorial: Modeling Modern Physics With Literature
An opinion piece about using models with nuclear physics....
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Tried and True: If You Build It, Will It Fly?
This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue describes a project in which students look at the necessary elements of flight through lessons and experimentation and build a glider....
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Scope on Safety: Safety Requires Collaboration
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue covers teachers receiving multidisciplinary safety training....
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Scope on the Skies: A Tale of Two Nodes
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses lunar and solar eclipses....
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An interdisciplinary lesson using poetry and science highlights the parallels of the disciplines while developing literacy....
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Friction in Different Languages
Sheltered instruction ensures all students can express what they are learning....
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Putting the "Her" in Science Hero
An interdisciplinary unit exposes fourth- and fifth-grade students to female scientists from several eras and various fields of science....
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Round robin journaling and white boarding provide multiple opportunities for assessing students and evaluating instruction....
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A series of activities helps young students understand why diet and exercise matter....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Poetry of Plants
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue integrates language arts and science using nature-inspired poetry picture books to engage students in explorations of plants' life cycles and needs....
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Editor's Note: Building Language for Science Literacy
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Guest Editorial: The BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Personal Reflections and Contemporary Implications
A widely used instructional model, the BSCS 5Es, has helped teachers approach instruction in a meaningful way that enhances student learning. The author, lead developer of the 5Es, provides an overview of the model and answers commonly asked question...
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The Early Years: Creating Effective Classroom Interactions
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses learning about your own teaching to see if you are creating an effective learning environment....
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Science 101: What Causes Friction?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the author talks about friction....
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Methods and Strategies: Gather 'Round
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue explores the wonders of science through read-alouds....
Book Chapter
Lab 12. Explanations for Animal Behavior: Why Do Great White Sharks Travel Over Long Distances?
The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to many of the theories and concepts used by biologists to study and explain the behavior of animals....
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Sound is one example of wave motion and the ability to hear sound is based on the principle of resonance. In this chapter’s activities, you will learn about standing waves, resonance, and an interesting wave phenomenon known as the Doppler effect. ...
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Color theory is the aspect of physics that can explain the colors on your computer screen or in your printer. Visible light can be split into different wavelength regions that are called colors. The color of an object is usually the color that the su...
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Thermodynamics is a very important part of physical science. When discussing thermodynamics, we can explore heat, thermal expansion, and insulation, as well as changes in state, thermal equilibrium, and thermal energy. In this chapter, the experiment...
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Water can be used to help become familiar with the concepts of density and buoyancy. For example, lifting rocks from the bottom of a lake is easier than moving them on the beach. While in the water, the buoyant force makes the rocks feel lighter. In ...
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In order to discuss mechanical interactions, we need to understand forces and motion. In physical science, we can make use of all three of Newton’s laws of motion in a variety of situations. Energy analysis encompasses all areas of physics. In mech...
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This chapter features gadgets and gizmos that make science look like magic. You don’t have to be a magician to perform these tricks—all you need is physics. Each student can pick a gizmo and prepare a performance for the rest of the group. Rememb...