Editor’s Note: Planting and Practicing

Journal Article | July 2018

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.

Guest Editorial: Addressing Common Questions About 21st-Century Science Teaching

Journal Article | July 2018

An early childhood science educator shares answers to commonly asked NGSS questions.

The Early Years: Making Sense of Their World

Journal Article | July 2018

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this issue students document the apparent movement of the Sun by making and recording two daily observations for a period of…

Teaching Through Trade Books: Important Impacts

Journal Article | July 2018

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this issue younger students investigate and determine that different types of plants have different needs, which depend on the environment in which…

Formative Assessment Probes: Is a Brick a Rock?

Journal Article | July 2018

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This issue explores a probe about lines of agreement with opposing views.

The Poetry of Science: Dimensions of Science

Journal Article | July 2018

Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways. Students explore a poem about science.

Teaching Teachers: The Language of Science in the Reading and Writing of Student Scientists

Journal Article | July 2018

This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. This article serves as an introduction to the different genres used in the work of doing science. The authors offer information about each and…

Engineering Encounters: How Can We Store Water During a Drought?

Journal Article | July 2018

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This issue shares information about a sustainability engineering design problem for fourth graders.

Methods and Strategies: Seeds of Practice

Journal Article | July 2018

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This issue discusses how to modify 5E inquiry lessons to amplify science and engineering practices.

Inspiring Student-Driven Observations

Journal Article | July 2018

Use low-cost temperature loggers to explore Earth science concepts through student-designed experiments.

The Temperature-Sensing Lunchbox

Journal Article | July 2018

Teach electricity and circuitry while students build a working model of thermal energy transfer.

Connect-the-Engineer Activity

Journal Article | July 2018

Help students make connections between the four main branches of engineering—electrical, chemical, mechanical, and civil.

Illuminating Food Webs

Journal Article | July 2018

Assign students specific tasks to complete a maker jigsaw electric circuit that models energy flow and transfer in a food web.

Making in the Middle: Celebrity Statues

Journal Article | July 2018

This column explores maker spaces, engineering and more. Students learn computational thinking by designing biomimetic robots.

From the Editor’s Desk: Reinventing STEM Through the Maker Movement

Journal Article | July 2018

Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.