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Formative Assessment Probes: Representing Microscopic Life

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment probe "Pond Water," which reveals how elementary children will often apply what they know about animal structures to newly discovere...

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Everyday Engineering: Clips and Clamps

This column provides an inside look at the marvels of engineering in everyday life. In this 5E learning cycle lesson, students investigate the design of simple, everyday binder clips and how they function....

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Scope on Safety: Test Your Metal (Safety Knowledge)

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the safety of various metals commonly used in middle school science lab activities....

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Going Underground

This article describes how geologists investigate groundwater flow systems in areas of karst topography—geologic formations shaped by dissolving bedrock—and provides a way for students to replicate this research. Students also use electric curren...

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Powering the Future

This activity introduces students to the pros and cons of a renewable energy source, allowing them to experience how energy can change form from mechanical to electrical. Pairs of students are challenged to build a set of wind turbine blades that wil...

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Safer Science: Lab Safety—A Shared Responsibility

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses responsibility for lab safety being in the hands of both the teacher preparatory institution and the school district....

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Tried and True: Energy Scavenger Hunt

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue describes an activity that was designed for our eighth-grade physics class to teach the concepts of how electricity is made and transported to the home...

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Teaching About Heat and Temperature Using an Investigative Demonstration

This short and cost-effective lesson helps middle grade students learn about the transfer of thermal energy. The lesson comprises three activities: a predict-share-observe-explain sequence of instruction that elicits students' conceptions and piques ...

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Editor's Note: Technology to Best Fit the Need

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

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Caught on Video!

Students use handheld digital video cameras to support evidence-based reasoning as they design model rock-and-mortar walls. ...

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Drivers, Start Your Glue Guns

Students design a vehicle made entirely out of pasta and hot glue to explore motion and force concepts....

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Editor's Corner: Dynamic Earth

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

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<i>Not</i> an Unfeasible "Extra"

Blogging helps elementary students communicate and reflect on their science practice....

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Recognizing Excellence: Turtles and Technology

This column features profiles of award-winning science programs and teachers. In this month’s issue students are involved in a real-world problem: how to protect a threatened species and become its advocate....

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Color Code

Students use hair color to make a clear connection between genotype and phenotype. ...

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Editor's Roundtable: A Positive Force in my Classroom

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

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SMART Boards Rock

When knowledge about rock types is paired with interactive whiteboards for introductory instruction, the combination is an ideal fit for children and teachers....