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For a science teacher in a city, it can sometimes be a challenge to find curricula that are geared specifically toward urban students. The author tackled this dilemma by creating a unit that focused on the urban…
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts and suggests an extraordinary effort to involve parents in their child's science learning. Try sharing your educational challenge with your students' parents--together this…
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Methods and Strategies: On the Case
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Implementing environmental science case studies helps students experience science in a meaningful way. This article describes a case study that involves the effects of the invasive plant kudzu.
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Methods and Strategies: Science Success for Students With Special Needs
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Recent special education legislation such as the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) emphasizes the placement of students with mild disabilities in the general education classroom. Therefore, students with learning…
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Idea Bank: Two Green Thumbs Up!
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Teaching with movie clips is one strategy to increase student understanding of environmental science. Whether accurate or not, “movie science” can expose students to phenomena that are difficult to explore in the…
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An opinion piece about teachers making mistakes and how students will learn to accept failed demonstrations and be challenged by them.
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This article presents a phenomenon, the hydraulic jump, as a way to help students see the complexity behind the seemingly simple and build experience and interest in the practice of science research.
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Structuring the Level of Inquiry in Your Classroom
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As the upcoming school year approaches, many science teachers may be looking for new ways to incorporate inquiry in their classrooms. Fortunately, teachers have an array of inquiry activities at their fingertips. But…
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This article describes an innovative summer camp program that serves middle school Iñupiat and Athabascan students from the interior and the arctic regions of Alaska. The camp enables students to learn from Native…
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Libros de Ciencias en Español (2001)
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From well-designed board books that introduce preschoolers to animals and their young to lighthearted explanations of survival and extinction, from a poetic narrative about the sense of smell to a humorous introduction…
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Turn your classroom into a candy factory to help students gain an understanding of cell organelles in a meaningful context. Students compare the cell’s structures and functions to something that all students can relate…
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Safer Science: The Safety Legal Paper Trail
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To avoid the potential for litigation, teachers need to be informed. They must know how to prevent accidents and should be proactive to protect both themselves and students from harm in the classroom. The following…
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Designed for use with small groups in an introductory geology class, this case study allows students to determine the relationship between sinkhole development and groundwater levels in Orlando, Florida. Students then…
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To help teachers meet the need for a challenging inquiry-based science for high school students, particularly basic level integrated science, Cornell University developed a program called Environmental Inquiry (EI). The…
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Editor's Roundtable: Rock-Solid Standards
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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