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What Are They Thinking? Promoting Elementary Learning Through Formative Assessment (e-Book)

A REVERE Award Winner, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers!“Children are continually developing ideas and explanations about their natural world. … Some of these ideas are consistent with the science children are taught; ot...

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 2: 39 New Electricity and Magnetism Formative Assessment Probes (e-book)

If you and your students can’t get enough of a good thing, Volume 2 of Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science is just what you need. The book offers 39 new formative assessment probes, this time with a focus on electric charge, electric curre...

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Science News Infographics

Teaching students to gather, interpret, and present information graphically....

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Using Infographics in the Science Classroom

Three investigations in which students present their results in infographics....

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There's An App for That

Using smartphone app design to engage students in biological ecosystems....

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Pinpointing Watershed Pollution on a Virtual Globe

An exploration that uses Google Earth to pinpoint sources of pollution locally and across the country and the effects on the surrounding watershed....

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A New Take on Student Lab Reports

Screencasts are a valuable tool for motivation, collaboration, expression, and authentic assessment....

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12

Discover trade books published in 2013 that cover science content, engineering, and design....

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Editor's Corner: New Tools—New Possibilities

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

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Science 2.0: Textbooks 2.0

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the advantages of digital books....

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The Green Room: The Gray Wolf—A Good Case Study

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses using the gray wolf as a case study for such topics as endangered species, wildlife conservation methods, ecosystem restoration, general populat...

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The New Teacher's Toolbox: "Why Do We Have to Know This?"

This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue discusses strategies for making curricular connections that will help answer questions from students who wonder why they need to know certain things....

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Career of the Month: An Interview with Biomaterials Engineer Constance Ace

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Constance Ace's career path to becoming a biomaterials engineer....

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Health Wise: Teens and STDs

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 how to help students see beyond the myths surrounding STDs....

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Safer Science: Don't Make Your Lab a McDonald's

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses reasons why food and drink should not be allowed in the lab....

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How Low Can You Go?: Interdisciplinary Student-Impact Investigations for Environmental Awareness and Sustainability

Analyze your class's consumption and waste production to teach students about their environmental impact....

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The Value of a Tree: Comparing Carbon Sequestration to Forest Products

Determine whether your local trees are better used for carbon sequestration or jet fuel....

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Invading the Curriculum: Incorporating Service Learning in the Local Community to Enhance Student Engagement

Connect classroom learning and community outreach through a unit about invasive ecology....

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12

Discover trade books published in 2013 that cover science content, engineering, and design....

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Greenhouse Design: An Engineering Unit

Incorporate engineering design into a lesson about grassland ecosystems....

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Get Your Students Outside With Technology

Use the latest technology to create an interactive interpretive trail....

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Editor's Roundtable: Walking a Thin Line

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

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Everyday Engineering: UV or Not UV? That Is a Question for Your Sunglasses

This column provides an inside look at the marvels of engineering in everyday life. In this 5E learning cycle lesson students use UV-sensitive beads to test different sunglasses' lenses to determine their ability to filter UV light....

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Teacher's Toolkit: Scientific Explanations and Arguments: Seeing and Supporting Explanation and Argumentation in Students' Talk

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue provides a set of questions useful for thinking about explanation and argumentation in students' talk with each other....

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Scope on Safety: LAMP: Shining a Light on Safety

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses LAMP: an acronym for lead, asbestos, mercury, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).The article describes where in the school building each of these health hazard...

Middle School Instructional Materials Labs Safety

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Scope on the Skies: Prograde and Retrograde

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the motion of planets....

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Our World Without Decomposers: How Scary!

A fifth-grade outdoor study of essential organisms in ecosystems....

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Exploring Nature Through a New Lens

Students use digital cameras to record evidence of the animal habitats that surround their school....

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How Healthy Is Our Pond?

Examining stability and change in a local pond connects students to their environment....

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Growing Gardens, Growing Minds

A garden project introduces plants and healthy eating....

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The Amazing Ecology of Terrestrial Isopods

Third-grade students investigate roly-polies to learn about ecosystems....