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Science For All: Making Science Memorable

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. Memorization techniques for the middle school student....

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Teacher To Teacher: Scaffolds for Scientific Explanations

This column provides practical advice from your peers. This month provides an example of an activity that guides middle school students through the formation of a scientific explanation....

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Scope on the Skies: Motions of the Earth and Beyond

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This issue discusses rotational speed and visible planets....

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School Maker Faires

This event blends Next Generation Science goals with the concepts of the Maker Movement....

Elementary STEM Lesson Plans Makerspace Preservice Science Education

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Plastic Pollution to Solution

Second graders turn knowledge into action as they engineer solutions for a real-world problem in a school makerspace....

Postsecondary Early Childhood Earth & Space Science Physics Phenomena

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Mars Mission Specialist

An integrated payload design challenge provides an authentic maker experience....

Elementary Engineering Mathematics Literacy

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3D Pit Stop Printing

A student competition supports engineering design....

Elementary Engineering Physics NGSS

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Ready, Set, FLOW!

Fifth-grade students create an aquaponics system....

Elementary Life Science Science and Engineering Practices

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Editor’s Note: Making Sense of Makerspaces

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

STEM Disciplinary Core Ideas Makerspace

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Guest Editorial: Elementary Engineering: What Is the Focus?

An opinion piece about elementary engineering....

Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Engineering General Science STEM Curriculum Lesson Plans Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Makerspace

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The Early Years: Open-Ended Maker Projects

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue describes how children use available materials to make structures of their own design....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Environmental Science Engineering Life Science STEM Inquiry NGSS Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Makerspace

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Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering “Maker” Ideas About Sound

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This issue discusses the Making Sound probe....

Elementary Physical Science Physics Assessment Makerspace

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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Force Is With You (or Against You)

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month through the use of playground equipment and common toys, students investigate force, energy, and motion in engaging ways....

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

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The Poetry of Science: Let’s Make a Robot

Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways. This month robotics and trial-and-error in science is discussed....

Elementary General Science Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Literacy

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Teaching Teachers: Designing an NGSS Learning Pathway

This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. How informal institutions can help teachers implement the NGSS...

Elementary Informal Education General Science Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Professional Learning old