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Scope on Safety: MSDS out, SDS in?

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue talks about a revised Hazard Communication Standard....

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Editor's Note: Hard to Learn; Hard to Teach

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

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Story Book Science

This article describes a learning experience that follows an alternate approach to integrating science and literacy. Teachers use a narrative to encourage children to use their imaginations in learning to describe motion....

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Safer Science: Lab Accident Wakeup Call

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses an example of a lab accident....

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How Does Force Affect Motion?

Students clear up science misconceptions when they learn about the "fantastic four" ways in which force affects motion. ...

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Energy Makes Things Happen

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue attempts to shed light on the topic of energy....

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The Spider Files

Firsthand experience with spiders debunks student misconceptions. The activities and methods described in this third-grade lesson can be applied to a variety of animals that students have misconceptions about or consider dangerous....

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Guest Editorial: Hard to Teach Does Not Mean Impossible

An opinion piece about difficult-to-teach topics....

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Methods and Strategies: Selecting Appropriate Topics

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue looks at why some science topics seemingly present roadblocks to learning, strategies teachers may consider in analyzing and circumventing those problems...

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Experiencing Friction in First Grade

First-grade students explore friction and use technology to collect data during a unit on forces and motion....

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Modeling Earth's Climate

This article describes an online climate change curriculum that incorporates dynamic computer models that enable students to visualize the complex interactions related to climate change science. Students learn how adjusting variables in a dynamic mod...

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Editor's Corner: Systems Thinking

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

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Phenylketonuria Genetic Screening Simulation

This article presents a hands-on, simulated screen for the inherited disease phenylketonuria. Designed as an interactive demonstration of inherited traits, this simulated screen connects real-life genetic testing with the expression of inherited trai...

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Changes Matter!

This 10-day unit on physical and chemical changes was presented in a fifth-grade classroom. Throughout the unit students had to cite multiple indicators for physical and chemical changes. Students were also given experiences that specifically address...