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Science and Children—April/May 2019
Even the most exquisitely designed science kit will fall short. The articles in this month’s issue of Science and Children transcend cookbook-type teaching approaches and strategies by providing students with wholesome, fully balanced learning sit...
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Biological evolution is a concept students must understand to achieve science literacy. Learn how you can strengthen students’ understanding of this concept with the articles found in in this issue of Science Scope....
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This lesson is designed to help students figure out what types of objects are attracted to a magnet. Students use what they know about magnetism, properties of matter, and patterns to design and carry out the investigation. They will learn about the ...
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In this lesson, the students’ investigation proposal should include the guiding question, How does changing the distance between two magnets affect magnetic force strength? The goal is to figure out how changing the distance between two magnets (a ...
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In this lesson, the students’ investigation proposal should include the guiding question, Where will the marble be located each time it changes direction in a half-pipe?The investigation gives students an opportunity to figure out how to predict t...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How do balanced and unbalanced forces acting on an object affect the motion of that object? Students are asked to use what they know about forces, motion, patterns, and cause and effect to design and car...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How are the life cycles of living things similar and how are they different? The purpose is to give students an opportunity to use the disciplinary core idea growth and development of organisms and the c...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, Why do wolves live in groups? The purpose of the investigation is to use the disciplinary core idea social interactions and group behavior and the crosscutting concept of cause and effect to give studen...
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The guiding question and purpose of this investigation is to figure out, How similar are earthworms to each other? Accomplishing this task, students will need to make observations about and take measurements of the traits of earthworms. The Teacher...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How similar are offspring to their parents? Students will use what they know about traits and patterns to design and carry out an investigation to determine which traits parents and offspring have in ...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How do differences in soil quality affect the traits of a plant? Students will use what they know about cause and effect to plan and carry out an investigation to determine how a change in amount of wat...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, What was the ecosystem at Darmstadt like 49 million years ago? Students will use what they know about plants, animals, and the relationship between structure and function in nature to plan and carry out ...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How does fur color affect the likelihood that a rabbit will survive? Students will use what they know about traits, ecosystems, and cause-and-effect relationships to design and carry out an investigatio...
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The purpose of this investigation is to give students an opportunity to use the disciplinary core idea adaptation and the crosscutting concept of cause and effect to figure out, Why do mammals that live in the Arctic Ocean have a thick layer of blub...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, What weather conditions can we expect here during each season? Students can use information about the daily weather conditions over the last year and what they know about the weather, seasons, and patter...
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The guiding question of this investigation is, How does the climate change as one moves from the equator toward the poles? Students can use what they know about weather, climate, and patterns to determine the climate of at least two different cities...
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What Have You Heard About Climate Change?
The goal of this session is to set the stage for student investigations into the complex topics of global warming and climate change. Students first participate in a networking activity to introduce them to the Climate Change Agents whose interviews ...
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Sources of CO2 in the Atmosphere
In this session, students discover some sources of CO2 in the atmosphere and compare their relative concentrations. The primary objective, in addition to being an interesting lab, is to show students that there is a considerable amount of CO2 in car ...
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The greenhouse effect is critical to understanding the basic mechanism of global warming. This session uses two types of models to help students understand the key concept of the greenhouse effect and the role that CO2 plays. Students then analyze da...
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Fact or Phony? Scientifically Evaluating Data
This session begins by students looking at a purely fictional web page cleverly disguised as factual. Students are challenged to learn important information from the web page to decide if it is factual. The session addresses the need to evaluate accu...