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Classic Lessons 2.0: Project- and problem-based learning and assessment

This article describes an activity that primarily focuses on project-based learning where students are actively engaged to solve the challenge of building a paper roller coaster that meets specific criteria (e.g., a hill and a loop is required)....

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Case Study: Exercises in Style: Is There a Best Way to Write a Case Study?

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This issue offers tips on writing an effective case study....

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Editor's Corner: Fire and Rain

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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From the Editor's Desk: Playing With Forces and Motion

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

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Idea Bank: Evolutionary Medicine in the Classroom

Using health to teach evolution...

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Disequilibrium: Newton's Bottle

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Explore the table cloth trick in this issue....

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Career of the Month: Mechanical Engineer

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This issue describes Ilona Johnson's career path to becoming a mechanical engineer....

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Editor's Note: Learning Through Learning

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

Elementary Lesson Plans Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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Science for All: Using the Textbook Effectively to Encourage Student Growth

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

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Right to the Source: Using 5E to Explore an Epitome of the Universe

Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This issue discusses Thomas Wright's three-page "synopsis of the universe, or, the visible world, epitomiz'd" from 1742....

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The Early Years: Analyzing Media Representations of Animals

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue aims to engage children in analyzing and interpreting illustrations to determine sizes of pictured animals and give evidence for how they know. To ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Life Science Mathematics STEM Crosscutting Concepts Inquiry NGSS Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

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Citizen Science: Raspberry Shake

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data.This issue, learn how to join in a study of plate tectonics....

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Visual Poetry

By Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong

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Interdisciplinary Ideas: Strengthening Your Word Wall

This column shares ways to bring other subjects into the science classroom. In this issue, learn how to show a relationship between concepts by placing vocabulary in a chart, cycle, continuum, logical sequence, or compare and contrast in an area of ...

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Teacher to Teacher: Classroom Strategies for Analyzing and Interpreting Graph Data

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

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Focus on Physics: The Color Black

Is the color black simply the absence of light or something more?...

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Scope on the Skies: Virtual Space Exploration

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This issue looks at how virtual reality and augmented reality are aiding space exploration....

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Magnets in Water

By Page Keeley

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Deriving Ohm's Law Using a Guided-Inquiry Investigation

Derive the mathematical relationship between voltage and a current flowing through a resistor....

Book Chapter

Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data (Book Sample)

If you think of science as a puzzle, you’ll see that data is a key to unlocking it. Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data touches on the world’s many riddles—from how we see to what’s at the bottom of the ocean. It shares how scientis...

Book Chapter

The Beaks of Birds (Book sample)

Come along on a tour of the wonderful world of birds and their beaks. This book is the story of a child and two grown-up friends on a jaunt across their yard, in a park, past a pond, and through the pages of a photo album. Like them, you’ll find yo...

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Take a Fresh Look at Connected Science Learning

Editor Dennis Schatz welcomes you to the latest issue of Connected Science Learning, focused on STEM Learning Through Afterschool Experiences, and introduces the journal’s incoming Field Editor, Beth Murphy.    ...

By Dennis Schatz

Informal Education

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Connected Science Learning October-December 2018

Volume 1, Issue 8 STEM Learning Connected to Afterschool Settings ...

Informal Education

Interactive E-book Kids

Be a Sky Sleuth

How can patterns be used to predict the positions of the Sun, Moon, and stars? The Be a Sky Sleuth e-book helps students figure out the answer to this question by following two students, Ana and Zane, who call themselves the Sky Sleuths. The Sky Sleu...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Astronomy Earth & Space Science Physical Science STEM Technology 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Literacy

Virtual Conference

Archive: Embracing STEM, December 1, 2018

Science is ultimately about explaining the phenomena that occur in the world around us. Recent reforms in science education have focused on how phenomena should be used during instruction. This conference will focus on how using phenomena effectively...