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Nonfiction Literacy in Kindergarten
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After an outdoor excursion hunting for a “special leaf” on a delightful fall day, students returned to the classroom and were instructed to capture the leaf on a blank page in their science notebooks. They were asked to…
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Launch Excitement with Water Rockets
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Explosions and fires—these are what many students are waiting for in science classes. And when they do occur, students pay attention. While we can’t entertain our students with continual mayhem, we can catch their…
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Science Shorts: Truffula Tree Troubles
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This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. In this month’s issue the author discusses how to use The Lorax to engage students in a rich exploration of renewable and non-…
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Development of a Valid and Reliable Student-Achievement and Process-Skills Instrument
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Development of a research instrument to measure student achievement requires planning and reliability and validity testing before the instrument is used to collect data. These steps are often overlooked in research…
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Tabizi Pythons & Clendro Hawks: Using Imaginary Animals to Achieve Real Knowledge about Ecosystems
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In the engaging unit described here, imaginary organisms are used to teach a variety of topics related to ecosystems—food chains and energy flow, food webs, limiting factors, carrying capacity, and the effects of…
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Scope on the Skies: The school year in space
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue features planet observations, eclipses, launches, and the International Space Station's (ISS) continued growth.
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Breathing Easy About New Air Pollution Standards
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A town hall meeting is the backdrop for a role-playing case about ground-level ozone air pollution. The case consists of a flier and scripts drawn from public comment records on the current government mandate to reduce…
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The Prepared Practitioner: An Assessment Primer
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Although the title of this month’s column may make your skin crawl—read on. Everyone should understand a few basics about the “A” word. Being able to distinguish formative from summative assessment and criterion-based…
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Lessons Learned From a Summer Preparatory Program on Foundations in Physics and Calculus
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This article presents details about a summer instructional program created by physics graduate students who sought a chance to help students from the local community and to gain greater experience teaching science and…
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Editor's Note: Nothing is as Constant as Change
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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It’s no secret that many school programs don’t give children enough opportunity to explore the natural world—i.e., to “mess about” and to have firsthand experience with nature and animals. Not so at the Muscota New…
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The “Learning Lab: The Cell” exhibit was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum and the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS). Specially designed for middle and high school…
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A Team Approach to Successful Learning: Peer Learning Coaches in Chemistry
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Through weekly Team Approach to Successful Learning workshops, students learn and apply problem-solving strategies, coached by specially trained peer learning coaches.
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Creating a Schoolyard Mini-Garden
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The creation of schoolyard gardens is a growing movement in the United States and around the world (Ballard, Tong, and Usher 1998; Pope 1998; Lewis 2004). It brings together all of the features of authentic hands-on…
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The New Teacher’s Toolbox: Making the Most of “Lost Days”
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In a given school year, one or two weeks of class time are inevitably eaten up by the calendar. There are the days before Thanksgiving, winter break, and spring break—when some students have left for early vacations,…
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