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This year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reaches out to families and asks them to discover the power of asking, "Why?" The mission of NSF's Find Out Why program is to engage all Americans in science, engineering…
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Commentary: Valuing Informal Science Learning Environments
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Understanding the spark that museums and science centers ignite for a continuum of learners helps teachers to think more creatively about engaging students in the classroom and challenges them to consider the power…
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A virtual expedition brings polar science to students and parents to school. Students got the opportunity to interact with scientists traveling to Antarctica.
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Point of View: Research Only Matters if You Do Research That Matters
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If we want research to matter we must make the questions asked and issues pursued be about real things, whose answers really matter to the teachers and professors, to the students, and to others who need to know. Merely…
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This article describes engaging students in two simple observations to address the concepts of changes of states, heat, temperature, and molecular potential and kinetic energy.
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Learning in Virtual Environments
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A charter school for homeschooled students tries its hand at distance education. The activities in this article demonstrate how learning takes place in the virtual environment.
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This article describes how Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) teaching strategies can help English language learners (ELL) with science. GLAD is a model for planning science, social studies, and literature-based…
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Mentoring is a complex role that encompasses criticism and praise, pressure and nurturing, logistics, organization, and persistence. While many school districts have specific procedures and objectives for mentoring, the…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Teaching the Three R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s lessons focus on the journeys of trash items and how students can affect their paths.
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In order to beautify the school environment and further student learning, fourth-graders cultivated a Native Plant Learning Garden. They were responsible for designing a layout, researching garden elements, preparing…
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Researchers believe an uncomfortable trend is developing in education reform—teaching is being influenced by large-scale assessments that fail to capture students’ abilities to do sustained work. This article focuses on…
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Perspectives: Children’s Literature and the Science Classroom
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Children’s literature, or trade books, address many scientific topics, both in narrative and expository forms. They provide a context for developing process skills (Monhardt and Monhardt 2006) and help create a sense of…
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Science 101: Do balances and scales determine an object’s mass or its weight?
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The typical elementary school explanation of the difference between mass and weight goes something like the following: Mass is the amount of matter contained in an object. If you travel to the Moon, another planet, or…
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Editorial: Tsunamis and Other Disasters -- A Response from Scientists Who Teach
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Scientists who teach have a unique opportunity and an ethical obligation to ensure that the scientific and technical basis for analyzing natural and man-made threats is communicated to citizens. As predictions are…
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The day the Turtle Girls received Montel’s adoption papers, piercing screams ricocheted across the school grounds instantaneously and simultaneously—in that moment, each student felt the joy of civic stewardship. Read…
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