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Evaluating Nature Museum Field Trip Workshops, an Out-of-School STEM Education Program
Out-of-school learning opportunities for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) represent an important context in which students learn about and do STEM. Studies have shown that in- and out-of-school experiences work syn...
By Caroline Freitag, and Melissa Siska
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Saturday Seminars for Urban Scholars Program
The K–16 academic journey to a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is often described as having serious barriers, such as uninspired teaching, an unwelcome environment, and poor math and science preparation that lea...
By Michele W. McColgan, Robert J. Colesante, Albert G. Andrade, and Kenneth Robin
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Learning Design Experiments (LDEs), which take their name from design experiments in the learning sciences (Brown 1992), support educational innovation and progressive refinement of learning experiences by taking an evidence-centered design perspec...
By Peter Wardrip, Lisa Brahms, and Annie McNamara
Virtual Conference
Science and Engineering Practices: Professional Book Study for K-12 Teachers
Are you a K-12 school teacher working to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the Science and Engineering Practices from A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)? Register to participate in the Sc...
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Natural Hazards, Grade 2: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (e-book)
What if you could challenge your second graders to help communities prepare for disasters ranging from floods and wildfires to earthquakes and hurricanes? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!...
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Designing a Tiered Science Lesson
Differentiation also helps students who have already mastered a concept....
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“Lightbulb” Moments for All Learners
Planning and simple adjustments facilitate differentiation....
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Using dramatic inquiry to bring excitement into the inclusive prekindergarten science classroom...
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Editor's Note: Differentiated Instruction
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Guest Editorial: Demystifying Differentiated Instruction
An opinion piece about differentiated instruction....
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The Early Years: Identifying Critters and Invertebrates
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2....
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment....
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The Poetry of Science: Differentiating Instruction Through Poetry
Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: How Plants Use Energy to Grow
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature....
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Tech Talk: UDL Strategies With Technology
This column describes how teachers can integrate innovative educational technology in their classroom....
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Science 101: Does a Force on an Object Always Result in Motion?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers....
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Engineering Encounters: Planting the Seeds of Engineering
This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering....
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Methods and Strategies: Responsive Teaching
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching....
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Teaching Teachers: Theory to Practice
This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers....
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Teaching Natural Selection Ambitiously
Using Bernard Kettlewell’s peppered moths study as an anchor for Ambitious Science Teaching (AST)...
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Emphasis on the particle nature of everyday matter can improve student understanding of density...
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Science-Based Serendipitous Events
Students teach the class about historic scientific inventions...
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Exploring maker spaces, engineering, and more...
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Teacher's Toolkit: Strategies for co-teaching and teacher collaborations
How-to strategies and classroom management...
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From the Editor's Desk: Gifted and Advanced Learners: The Forgotten Minority?
Science Scope's editor introduces the current issue....
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Disequilibrium: Bringing respiration to light
Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions...
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Citizen Science: What are your pipes made of? Find out with Crowd the Tap citizen science
Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions...
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Strategies for increasing student engagement...
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Classic Lessons 2.0: Taking the plunge! The Barbie bungee
Updating perennial classroom favorites...
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Interdisciplinary Ideas: Data literacy 101: What do we really mean by “data”?
Bringing other subjects into the classroom...
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Using the PhET pH scale simulation and the 5E Model to enhance students’ pH understanding ...
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Modeling for Ecological Engineering
Students create iterative models to make sense of pine beetle outbreaks in North America...
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Using water activities to allow students to construct their own explanations...
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The Migratory Patterns of Birds of Prey
Using scientific data to inform students about the ecological profile of the broadwinged hawk (Buteo platypterus)...