Science Scope—July/August 2021

Volume 44, Number 6

Visual Literacy

A staple of 21st-century skills, visual literacy is addressed in several Common Core State Standards, but the skills associated with visual literacy are also essential to the sciences. Today’s students have constant access to websites and videos that require visual literacy skills if they are to be a critical consumer of media. Scientists, too, live in a visual world in which they are required to interpret, analyze, and evaluate visual materials.

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Visual Literacy

By Patty McGinnis

Middle School Literacy Teaching Strategies Technology

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How Can We Use and Interact With Graphs Better? (Data Literacy 101)

By Kristin Hunter-Thomson

Middle School Pre-service Teachers Interdisciplinary Literacy Technology

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Wrapping It Up

By Kaitlyn McGlynn and Janey Kelly

Middle School Inclusion Literacy Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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The Great Sunflower Project

By Jill Nugent

Middle School Citizen Science Environmental Science Life Science Teaching Strategies

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Under the Sea

By Jayma Koval, Sabrina Grossman, and Marion Usselman

Middle School Biology Interdisciplinary Literacy Technology

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Drawing to Learn to Draw Out Student Understanding

By Christine Karlberg, Laura Henriques, and Alan Colburn

Middle School Pre-service Teachers Biology Interdisciplinary Life Science Literacy STEM Teaching Strategies

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Using Big Data to Understand the History of Planet Earth

By Peggy Mansfield McNeal and Elizabeth Cordle

Middle School Computer Science Earth & Space Science Literacy STEM Teaching Strategies

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Integrating Crosscutting Concepts and Literacy Strategies to Support Visual Literacy

By Eric Brunsell, Elizabeth D. Alderton, and Josh Morris

Middle School Crosscutting Concepts Interdisciplinary Literacy Teaching Strategies

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Green Plants, Red Glow

By Kathy-Uyen Nguyen, Andrew R. Ratchford, Jason L. Painter, Rachael Polmanteer, Ann E. Norcross, and Jonathan S. Lindsey

Middle School Biology Interdisciplinary Life Science Literacy

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Going Viral

By Laura C. Todd and Brooke A. Whitworth

Middle School Biology Life Science Literacy Teaching Strategies

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The “Magic” of Density

By Jacquelyn J. Mosely and Brooke A. Whitworth

5E Literacy Physical Science Teaching Strategies

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Modeling Magnetism With the Floating Paper Clip

By Sarah Braden, Lauren Barth-Cohen, Sara Gailey, and Tamara Young

Middle School Literacy Physical Science

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Visual Literacy—the 3Rs or STEAM?

By Bob Riddle

Astronomy Earth & Space Science Instructional Materials Literacy STEM