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Editor's Corner: Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation

In an age where facts must compete with “alternative facts,” it is more important than ever for our students to learn and practice the skills of scientific argumentation. Taken from the Latin arguer—to make bright or enlighten—argument is cen...

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A New Twist on DNA Extraction

Argumentation is a key scientific practice and a central social and cultural process contributing to the generation, evaluation, and application of new scientific knowledge. As scientists develop arguments and construct knowledge claims, they clarify...

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Using Scientific Argumentation to Understand Human Impact on the Earth

Using High-Adventure Science to help students develop critical thinking and scientific argumentation skills...

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Let’s Invent!

Invention activities are creative, engaging, and relevant ways to integrate engineering design into science class. High school students are capable of creating working prototypes of real, patentable inventions when they are working on problems about ...

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Formatively Assessing NGSS

Three models of formative assessment for addressing NGSS domains ...

High School Assessment NGSS

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Proxy Climatology

Using proxy data to make claims about climate change...

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Focus on Physics: Quickly Teaching Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration—Part 1

Motion is best learned by keeping it simple—by neglecting the effects of air resistance, as well as the effects of buoyancy, spin, and the shape of moving objects....

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Right to the Source: Learning to Think

Jacob Abbott's 1856 book "Learning to Think" and why it still resonates today...

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Career of the Month: An interview with paleontologist Emily Lindsey

Paleontologists study past life on Earth, usually focusing on what happened before the Holocene Epoch (about 12,000 years ago.)...

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Cougars and Bears and Wolves, Oh Elk!

Examine how the reintroduction of gray wolves into Yellowstone affected the ecosystem of the park. ...

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Is Our Water Safe to Drink?

Explore how human activity impacts our water supply....

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Investigating Bark Beetle Outbreaks

Model and explain the cause of recent bark beetle outbreaks....

Middle School Life Science Lesson Plans Citizen Science

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Making in the Middle: Robots and Sequences

This column explores maker spaces, engineering, and more. This article presents a lesson that allows students to engage with robotics as they work through three modules exploring sequences. ...

Middle School General Science STEM Technology Makerspace

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Practical Research: Sound Practices in Climate Change Education

This column describes strategies for applying best research-based practices. This article provides three strategies for promoting effective climate change education....

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Teacher's Toolkit: Using the Five Practices to Facilitate a Meaningful Discussion on Plate Tectonics in a Middle School Classroom

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This issue explains how you can encourage abstract reasoning and scientific thinking through a Five Practices Discussion....

Middle School Earth & Space Science General Science NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

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From the Editor's Desk: Stability and Change—Integral to Systems

Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Citizen Science: Plant Phenology for Budding Biologists

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data....

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Surface Tension and Surfactants

By Todd Hoover

Middle School Interdisciplinary Physical Science

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Scope on the Skies: The Van Allen Radiation Belts

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year....

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Interdisciplinary Ideas: Expanding the Power of Data Analysis with Google Sheets

This column shares ways to bring other subjects into the science classroom....

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Teacher to Teacher: Making Sense of Stability and Change

This column provides practical advice from your peers....

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Science for All: Building a Bridge Over Homework

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement....

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Guest Editorial: Using the BSCS 5E Instructional Model to Introduce STEM Disciplines

Author Rodger W. Bybee describes how teachers can use the BSCS 5E Instructional Model to introduce STEM disciplines....

General Science 5E Curriculum Lesson Plans Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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The Early Years: Teaching the <i>M</i> in STEM

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue focuses on teaching STEM lessons that have an emphasis on mathematics....

Early Childhood Pre-service Teachers Preschool Mathematics Physical Science STEM Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices

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Balance Beam

By Page Keeley

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