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Influence of Waves, Grade 1: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (e-book)

What if you could challenge your first graders to create instruments they can play in their own “Show Me the Waves” musical show? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!...

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Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity, Student Edition (e-book)

How do our bodies manage to heal wounds, build the stamina to run marathons, and give us the energy—even while we’re sleeping—to keep us alive and functioning? Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity prompts high school students to explore fa...

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Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity, Teacher Edition (e-book)

How do our bodies manage to heal wounds, build the stamina to run marathons, and give us the energy—even while we’re sleeping—to keep us alive and functioning? Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity prompts high school students to explore fa...

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Making Sense of Science and Religion: Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond (e-book)

“I have been hoping for a volume like this for a long time. Making Sense of Science and Religion marshals the best scholarship on science and religion toward the deeply practical aim of helping science teachers understand what is at stake for both ...

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Can I Build on That?

Student-engaged talk stems from teachers’ epistemological messages....

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What Did You Notice?

Simple questions lead to evidence and explanations...

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Sparking Discussion through Visual Thinking

Strategies for adapting Visual Thinking Strategies for use in the science classroom...

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Discussion Supports Sense-Making Within and Across Lessons

Promoting coherent learning about weather forecasting in kindergarten...

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Editor's Note: Cultivating Classroom Conversations

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

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The Early Years: Sorting Materials

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2....

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The Poetry of Science: Cultivating Classroom Conversations

Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways....

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Formative Assessment Probes: Using Probes for Constructive Conversations

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment....

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Looking Good: Structural Adaptations and Inherited Traits

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature....

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Science 101: What are some processes that affect landforms?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers....

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Engineering Encounters: Where Have the Birds Gone?

This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering....

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Teaching Teachers: Let’s Talk About It

This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering....

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Methods & Strategies: Encouraging Student-Generated Questioning

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching....

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Globalize Your Classroom

Employing global collaboration to develop student communication skills using the water cycle ...

By ALEXANDRA OWENS AND REBECCA HITE

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Blended Learning in the Science Classroom

An introduction to atoms and molecules ...

By LAUREN ANGELONE

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From the Editor's Desk: The key to service learning

Science Scope's editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Making Science Come Alive With Clouds

Hardware, software, and websites for use in the classroom ...

By MARILÉ COLÓN ROBLES, JEFFREY BOUWMAN, AND CARYN SMITH-LONG

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The SDM Finger

Exploring makerspaces, engineering, and more ...

By SARA BERNDT, MAXWELL HERMAN, CONOR WALSH, AND DONAL HOLLAND

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Using technology to sensitively and sensibly meet students' needs in the science classroom

Strategies for increasing student engagement ...

By KAITLYN MCGLYNN AND JANEY KELLY

Inclusion Technology

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Science Buddies

How-to strategies and classroom management tips ...

By LINDA SMITH

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Integrating nonfiction chapter books into a science unit

Bringing other subjects into the classroom ...

By KATIE COPPENS

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Advance technology literacy and bring learners’ 21st-century skills up to code with the Hour of Code!

Collaborative science projects you can join ...

By JILL NUGENT

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Phases of the Moon

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions ...

By COLE ENTRESS

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Mercury Transit of the Sun

Astronomy throughout the year ...

By BOB RIDDLE

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Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers

This article describes how science educators at a large southeastern university developed specialized science training for elementary preservice teachers (EPSTs) by creating a combination of discipline-specific science content courses (physical, life...

By Tammy D. Lee and Bonnie Glass

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Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course

The authors describe how they introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors. ...

By Emma Kamen and Alessandra Leri