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Debates over water allocation help students understand Earth systems. ...
By Amy Gilbert and Abigail Turner-Nesmith
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Student-Driven Citizen Science
Investigating marine plastic pollution ...
By Abby Plummer and John Van Dis
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Applying geology concepts to an investigation into human behavior ...
By Anne Farley Schoeffler
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Students measure growth trends in the school woods. ...
By Darrell Hendrickson and Marcia Goodrich
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Saving the Forest for the Trees
Collaborative science projects you can join ...
By Jill Nugent
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How our daily lives affect biodiversity
Updating Perennial Classroom Favorites ...
By Jodi Takei
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Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions ...
By Cole Entress
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What biases are in my internet searches?
Bringing other subjects into the classroom ...
By Raja Ridgway
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Mapping the impact of the schoolyard on watershed health
Hardware, software, and websites for use in the classroom ...
By Emily J. Rees
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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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Test Blueprints in the Science Classroom
Sitting in a fall staff meeting, you lean over to tell a science teacher colleague you have settled in for the school year. You have learned your students’ names, your seating chart has changed, and your first evaluation date has been set. Your pri...
By Kurtz Miller, Terri Caprio, Tonie Smarr, Kathleen Guest Bledsoe, and Katie Pettinichi
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Encouraging student voices in the science classroom
Notes from the field editor ...
By Ann Haley Mackenzie
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Editor's Note: Early Childhood Engineering Experiences
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Science and Children—October 2019
Preschool and early childhood elementary students are constantly faced with inherent problems to solve in their daily lives. In this issue of Science & Children, find out how you can engage young learners in engineering design....
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By nature, adolescents often desire to make a difference in the world, but aren’t always afforded the opportunity. Provide students with actionable steps to improve the health of our planet with the articles found in this issue of Science Scope....
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The Science Teacher—October 2019
Teaching the periodic table is a central part of chemistry, whether it involves memorizing the symbols of the elements, learning about the properties of the families, or understanding its general organization. This year, The International Year of the...
Book Chapter
Science and Religion as Part of Our Professional Responsibilities
In this first chapter, we make the argument that addressing science and religion is, in fact, part of our collective job. We review four domains of science teaching to make our case and to assist you in explaining, justifying, and defending your choi...
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The Need for History and Evolution as a Science-Religion Case Study
This chapter begins with introducing Ian Barbour, who is generally credited with establishing science-religion interactions as a historical discipline and providing a clear set of categories that serves as a useful starting point for discussing scien...
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The Arc of History Bends Toward Teaching Evolution
This chapter emphasizes the historical roots and persistence of opposition to evolution given that it is the most prevalent science-religion theme. Teaching evolution has presented a challenge to teachers since the 1920s. Even those who teach it enth...
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As you consider your current approach to teaching topics at the intersection of science and religion, we hope you’ll consider both the legal parameters and the extent to which you can engage all students. This chapter focuses on the legality of add...
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The research on the Creation Museum informed the focus of this chapter for providing teachers a broader context of the public’s varying attitudes, beliefs, and levels of trust in science and religion. In this chapter, the discussion is informed by ...
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Addressing Science-Religion Interactions by Teaching About Science in the Elementary Grades
Teaching science can be a challenging endeavor, especially for elementary school teachers. In this chapter, we first define science and identify important characteristics that elementary students should learn about science. Second, we outline concept...
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Science and Religion in Middle School and High School Classrooms
This chapter is at the heart of the conflict around teaching evolution—the classrooms of middle and high school teachers. Our overall approach gives science teachers a way to move beyond conflict and toward a classroom honoring both science and stu...
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Science and Religion in Higher Education
This chapter explores how religion surfaces in science teaching and learning in higher education contexts. First, it explores models of college student development in terms of epistemology, noting how college students often begin seeking authority an...
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Lessons About Science and Religion From Informal Science Educators
Teaching evolution can be challenging whether you are a formal or informal educator. This chapter introduces information on visitor learning of evolution in informal education venues—particularly museums—and describes how we prepared volunteers t...
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Talking About Science and Religion Beyond the Classroom
This chapter provides a consolidated and modified list of advice that we find helpful for science-religion outreach. Many of the points are similar to what we already do as science teachers and educators, but with a few caveats. What would it take fo...
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the largest general science organization in the world. Among the range of initiatives sponsored by AAAS is the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program. However, in th...
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The Future of Science and Religion in American Schools
While it is not usually the first thing that science educators focus on in our communication with students, colleagues, or community members, the act of teaching is underpinned by a belief in, and hope for, a better future. While we do not necessaril...
Book Chapter
Leave It to Beavers: Should We Relocate the Beaver Dam?
In this lesson, suggested for grades K-2, students examine the manner in which beavers change their environment to survive by building dams and lodges. Students engage in an engineering design challenge in which they work together as a beaver family ...
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Swingy Thingy: What Makes a Great Playground?
In this lesson, suggested for grades K-2, students explore the way pushes and pulls affect the speed and direction of objects using both playground swings and model swings that they build and test. They experiment with swings on the playground and mo...
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Take a (Farm) Stand: Can Plants Help Us Fight Hunger?
In this lesson, suggested for grades K-2, students conduct a series of experiments on bean plants to determine what plants need to live and grow. They also compare and contrast individual bean plants to recognize the variation that can exist in obser...
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Monkey Business: Do We Need Zoos?
In this lesson, suggested for grades K-2, students take two virtual visits to a zoo—one by reading a book and the other by conducting online research. Students are asked to use their observational skills to spot the ways that parents and offspring ...
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Soaky, Doaky: What’s the Best Way to Clean Up Spills?
Is Bounty really the “quicker picker upper”? In this lesson, suggested for grades K-2, students have the opportunity to test advertisers’ claims through laboratory investigations. This lesson focuses on the two main properties of paper towels�...
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Bee-ing There for Bees: Are Bees Disappearing?
In this lesson, suggested for grades K-2, students learn about bee anatomy and behavior. They develop and test bee models to demonstrate their understanding of the interrelationships between plants and pollinators. After examining some of the controv...
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Weather or Not? Should We Rebuild in Twisterville?
In this lesson, suggested for grades K-3, students are introduced to tornadoes through a picture book. They make observations using water-filled bottles that function as “Tornadoes in a Bottle” when they create a swirling motion and evaluate the ...
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Eggstreme Sports: Is Football Too Dangerous for Kids?
In this lesson, suggested for grades 3-5, students learn about brain anatomy to reinforce the idea that the brain is an internal structure that has a specific role in the body’s functioning. They then create and test helmets undergoing impact, usin...
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Marsh Madness: What’s Your Plan for the Bullfrog Pond?
In this lesson, suggested for grades 3-5, students investigate the ecological relationships between living and nonliving components of a wetland and collaboratively determine the type, extent, and consequences of nearby development. They learn about ...