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Editor's Note: Teacher Growth, Coupled With Early Introduction
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue. ...
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Sinking Your Teeth Into Tooth Decay
This article integrates the important health concept of tooth decay with data analysis. Students learn about how different liquids affect tooth decay....
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Even though we cannot see it, water vapor is almost always present in the air, regardless of the temperature. This means that water vapor can exist at any temperature. What about liquid water? Can water exist as a liquid at any temperature? You will ...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Simple Machines
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. Engaging students with common machines such as playground equipment and tools will show them how machines make work and play easier as they gain an understanding of other physical s...
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Students interact with a scientist virtually and make nanoscale observations of insects using an online scanning electron microscope....
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The author presents the science and engineering practices from the recently released A Framework for K–12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas....
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Technology and visual representations offer many ways to engage students in active inquiry. In this article students use planetarium software to gather data about the Moon....
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The Early Years: Harness Your Tech Side
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses teachers using technology to help students develop a science inquiry....
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A microscope connected to a digital projector helps students make connections between the microscopic and macroscopic world....
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Use popular media to enhance instruction of simple machines and energy transfer. Popular culture can foster active thinking at key points in a lesson sequence, such as introductory pretest, formative review, homework practice, application, extension,...
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This article uses a historic cataclysm to teach modern science. This study of Krakatoa offers an opportunity to correct common student misconceptions about volcanoes....
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Scientific and Engineering Practices in K–12 Classrooms
The author presents the science and engineering practices from the recently released A Framework for K–12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas....
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Middle school students can develop and enhance their observation skills by participating in teacher-guided scientific inquiry activities where they observe animals that tend to act in known, predictable ways. Using madagascar hissing cockroaches can ...
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Science 2.0: Dynamic Lessons With Google Earth
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the "layers" feature of Google Earth....
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In this activity students investigate and monitor fault zones around the world and learn about seismology....
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Scope on the Skies: Getting to Mars
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses missions to Mars....
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Studying the Olympic sport of curling is a fun, engaging way to learn about the concepts of friction, forces, momentum, and Newton's laws. Students enjoy and benefit from hands-on, experiential learning activities, and sports show students how they c...
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Investigating Continental Margins
In this article students investigate North America's continental margins using GeoMapApp, a free global topography database. Each student investigates continental margins along the East, West, and Gulf Coasts, determines the nature of these margins, ...
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The Green Room: Global Environmental Issues
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue presents several global environmental issues and suggests a classroom activity for each....
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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Teaching With Current Events
This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. In this month’s issue the author emphasizes that everyday science events can provide plentiful connections to classroom science content....
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Idea Bank: An Environmentally Responsible Physics Course
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank discusses emphasizing energy in an introductory physics course....
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Science Shorts: One Hungry Dinosaur
This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. In this month’s issue the author discusses using dinosaur models and pictures to help students understand the role of animal body parts and their adaptation to...