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Science Conversations for Young Learners
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What do you get when you add 20 kindergarten students and a student-led science discussion for the first time? Mass chaos! So, after taking some time to recover, the authors began to reflect on what they could change to…
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Teacher’s Toolkit: Making the most of concept maps
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A concept map is a two-dimensional, graphic or schematic diagram illustrating the interconnections, and often the hierarchy, of a particular concept or topic. Concept maps are especially important in teaching science…
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From Curanderas to Gas Chromatography: Medicinal Plants
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The Medicinal Plants of the Southwest summer workshop is an inquiry-based learning approach to increase interest and skills in biomedical research. Working in teams, Hispanic and Native American students discover the…
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The Green Room: Greenland's Melting Glaciers
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses glacial melting.
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Playing with toys isn’t always child’s play. Designing activities that use toys to improve student’s observation skills and problem-solving techniques can lead to serious science. To that end, the authors developed the…
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Read! Read! Read! In first grade, language arts are such a driving force; and yet, we know the students love science and art! How can we integrate the subjects, maintain the integrity of each subject area, and…
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Guest Editorial: A revolutionary model of professional development
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Traditionally, professional development in education has focused on three main areas: content, general pedagogy, or pedagogical content knowledge. While each area has its own purpose, in this article the author focuses…
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Science on the Run: Advice for teachers without a classroom
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After moving to a school where he has no classroom of his own, a biology teacher embraces his new work style by honing his organizational skills, establishing and maintaining positive relationships with colleagues whose…
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The San Diego Zoo partnered with a middle school in order to provide local inner-city, low-income girls the opportunity to perform active science and to meet current female scientists in an after-school program.…
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T'was the Start of Science Notebooking
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The authors discuss science notebooks and provide a list of approaches they have successfully implemented to introduce and reinforce science concepts. The article also includes a poem about science notebooking.
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Waves on the Fly: Encouraging Inquiry in the Physics Classroom
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Developing inquiry-based labs can seem pretty overwhelming, especially if you are new to the process. The secret is in the environment--when students feel comfortable asking questions and are encouraged to work together…
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Making the Grounds of Scientific Inquiry Visible in the Classroom
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The ability to formulate questions is a critical skill that forms the basis of scientific inquiry. Questioning is indeed robustly rooted in children's everyday ways of thinking about the world, but serious classroom…
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Visual formative assessments (VFAs) allow more free more time for direct instruction. VFA’s guide students in using simple images to demonstrate the essential learnings within a unit to themselves and the teacher. VFAs…
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The authors planned investigations and taught science lessons that help children extend natural comparisons of physical properties of humans and familiar animals to include observations and comparisons of the physical…
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In this article, the author questions the criteria used to determine if science is taking place and also suggests some criteria and provides examples. But, the main purpose for this article is to initiate discussion…
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