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Methods and Strategies: Poor, Poor Pluto
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month’s issue teachers develop a research project surrounding Pluto's lost planetary status.
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Summarizing with Drawings: A Reading-Comprehension Strategy
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The development of literacy skills is essential for student success. According to the National Science Education Standards, “Scientific literacy entails being able to read with understanding articles about science in…
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Editor's Corner: An Urgent Need
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.
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The Impact of Teaching Assistants on Student Retention in the Sciences: Lessons for TA Training
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Attrition from the sciences remains a national problem. This article presents results from a survey of over 2,100 undergraduates that, contrary to previous research, suggests that teaching assistants (TAs) influence…
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Using Google Earth to Teach the Magnitude of Deep Time
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Most timeline analogies of geologic and evolutionary time are flawed, causing an understanding of relative time with little comprehension of absolute time. Using Google Earth, one can construct an ideal timeline analogy…
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 (Books published in 2008)
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Today’s classrooms have no real walls! Students explore the world on field trips, during virtual journeys on the world wide web, and through the books they read. These pathways help them fly to the ends of the universe…
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Science Shorts: Organizing Weather Data
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Often in schools, children collect weather data as part of their morning meeting or calendar time. These common primary level activities lend themselves nicely to introducing the importance of organizing data. In this…
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Do Standards Matter? How the quality of state standards relate to evolution instruction
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Although most states include evolution instruction in their standards, the teaching of evolution in public schools remains problematic. To create successful science education programs, we must recruit and reward…
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Environmental Literacy Through Relationships: Connecting Biomes and Society in a Sustainable City
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In this article, the authors share a project developed and implemented in an eighth-grade science classroom in which students apply what they have learned about biomes to create sustainable cities. This project promotes…
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Tried and True: Investigating ecosystems in a biobottle
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Biobottles are miniature ecosystems made from 2-liter plastic soda bottles. They allow students to explore how organisms in an ecosystem are connected to each other, examine how biotic and abiotic factors influence…
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In the fall of 1999, Science and Children extended an invitation to K–8 teachers to participate in a national study (Barman, Barman, Berglund, and Goldston, 1999). The main focus of this study was to examine students’…
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The Early Years: Learning Measurement
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The world is filled with references to measurements that limit children's activities. It's no wonder children strive to be"big" when they often hear adults remarking, "That's too big a piece of cake for you," or "That'…
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Why Do Students “Cook” Data? A Case Study on the Tenacity of Misconceptions
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This paper describes an extraordinary example of data fabrication in which two students and their course instructor are so certain that they know how an experiment should turn out that they repeatedly dismiss…
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Moderation, or the interactive analysis of student work by small groups of teachers, can help to qualify student understanding and increase teacher sensitivity to student progress with difficult concepts. This article…
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