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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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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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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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Students use handheld digital video cameras to support evidence-based reasoning as they design model rock-and-mortar walls. ...
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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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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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When knowledge about rock types is paired with interactive whiteboards for introductory instruction, the combination is an ideal fit for children and teachers....
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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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Fourth-grade students create digital field guides for visitors to the school's nature trail....
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Career of the Month: Physician Assistant
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. In this month’s issue we learn about one physician assistant's experiences....
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Science 101: Is It Possible to Turn Coal Into Diamonds?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the author discusses the properties of carbon....
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Students build their own generator to study the transfer of energy. The generator activity allows students to observe electrical effects without using a battery or power supply....
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Separation Lab: Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures
In this activity, students will separate a mixture of sand, salt, Styrofoam (or Perlite), and iron....
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Probability of Finding an Electron
In this activity, students will use a target to simulate the probability of finding an electron in a certain energy level....
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In this activity, students will simulate the decay of radioactive isotopes by flipping papers and removing face-up papers....
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Rutherford’s Gold Foil Simulation
In this activity, students will simulate Rutherford’s gold foil simulation by rolling a marble (alpha particle) at a series of target marbles (gold atoms...
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In this activity, students will calculate the mean free path of a simulated gas sample....
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In this activity, students will see if the volume of an ice and water mixture goes up or down when the ice melts....
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In this activity, students will count how many drops of water they can put on the face of a penny with and without dishwashing liquid in the water....
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In this activity, students will estimate the density of cooking oil by comparing it to water...
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In this activity, students will perform paper chromatography on different inks to find the source of the ink....
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In this activity, students learn how to use a single-beam balance to determine the masses of objects. Students use the density of water to determine the mass needed to balance the objects....
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Mechanoluminescence: Making Things Light Up
In this activity, students will see how applying a force to a Wint-O-Green Life Saver causes it to light up....
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Intensive and Extensive Properties
In this activity, students will split colored water into different cups and observe the properties...
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In this activity, students will create a substance that does not clearly fall into the categories of solid, liquid, gas, or plasma....
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Average Atomic Mass Simulation
In this activity, students will use a large number of small objects to find the average mass of the objects....
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In this activity, students will dissolve pieces of Alka-Seltzer tablets in water after crushing them and heating the water, and then time how long the reaction takes to complete....
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Molecular Motion and Temperature
In this activity, students will see how the rate of diffusion varies in cold, room temperature, and hot water....
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In this activity, students will make warm water boil by reducing the pressure inside a syringe...