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What Happens to Animals during Hurricanes?
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Student curiosity provides a springboard for discussions ranging from weather, to conservation, to biology, and concern for animal welfare. Teachers can use these real-world events that spark students' interest to…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: A Season to Inquire
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Aside from learning about naturally occurring cycles that happen over time, trade books about seasons can help students learn about the cause of the seasons. The activities based on this month’s books deepen students'…
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Editor's Roundtable: Genetic Material Injected into the Headlines
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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The Early Years: An Invertebrate Garden
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For farmers and gardeners, slugs and snails may be serious pests that will limit the amount of harvest, but for a child, they represent a world to be explored. To teachers, however, invertebrates are tools for…
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Thoughtful teachers allow students to pursue the relationship between structure and function before learning about particular organelles, usually through an analogy to a factory or some other complex system (Crooks and…
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How to Make a Plant Field Guide
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Every year, an elementary school celebrates different aspects of Central Texas ecology. This year, they focused on Blackland Prairie, the ecoregion on which the school is located. A schoolwide event at the end of the…
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This article presents an engaging activity in which high school students use a dichotomous key to guide the creation and classification of model insects from recycled plastic lids and containers. Besides teaching the…
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Scope on the Skies: Eclipse cycles
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The Moon's orbit around the Sun with the Earth brings it into position twice each month for an eclipse at new Moon and at full Moon. However, we do not have an eclipse pair each month, nor do we have an eclipse every…
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Horticulturist John Stier
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Horticulture—the science and art of cultivating plants—is host to a dynamic array of careers. Horticulturist John Stier researches turfgrass to develop high-quality sports fields. At the 1994 World Cup, he watched the U…
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All college science students, especially those who will become science teachers, need an understanding of scientific inquiry and effective ways to teach it. Phasing is an effective approach for training future science…
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Guest Editorial: Helping Young Learners Make Sense of Data—A 21st-Century Capability
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Providing opportunities for students to ask questions about scientific phenomena they encounter in their world is a critical aspect of students learning science. Asking questions leads to students designing ways to…
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After the Lab: Learning Begins When Cleanup Starts
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Having students design their own methods regarding data collection during a lab may help them formulate appropriate investigative procedures. The authors use a modified gallery walk to develop science skills.
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Forces at Work: The Top 5 Reasons for Belonging to a Professional Organization
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Although we all interact within our classrooms and with our students all of the time, we also need the dynamic of peer interaction. This article describes the benefits of participating in a professional organization for…
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This article shows how teachers can use common instructional methods to ensure that students, including ELLs, understand the language of science, construct new concepts, and simultaneously develop academic English…
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