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  • Outlining Informational Text

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    Analyze and evaluate information before organizing it into a hierarchically structured framework.

  • Dropping Anchor!

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    Use the CER strategy to help students express their understanding of science concepts.

  • English Learners and the Complex Language of Written Science Texts

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    Focus on nominalizations and connecting words to boost student comprehension of science texts.

  • Integrating Technology: The Innovative Utensil Challenge

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    This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article talks about creating innovative problem-solvers.

  • Making in the Middle: Engineering Prosthetic Hands

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    This column explores maker spaces, engineering, and more. This article highlights an activity for integrating STEM into the science classroom.

  • Teacher’s Toolkit: The Argumentation Toolkit

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    This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. A resource for integrating argumentation into your science classroom.

  • Practical Research: From Interest to Identity

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    Tips for maker spaces, robotic labs, and more. Learn how to create and nurture STEM kids in middle school.

  • From the Editor’s Desk: Critical Thinking and the Adolescent Brain

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

  • Disequilibrium: Egg in a Bottle

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    This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s Disequilibrium column carries out the traditional version of the egg-in-a-bottle activity with the addition of a few other steps to…

  • Science For All: Demystifying Reading in the Science Classroom

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    This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. Using content-area literacy skills to deepen students’ content knowledge.

  • Citizen Science: I See Change: Do You?

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    This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. This article describes the I See Change project, which integrates citizen…

  • Interdisciplinary Ideas: Project GUTS

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    This column shares ways to bring other subjects into the science classroom. Using, modifying, and creating computer models for simulating phenomena.

  • Scope on the Skies: Milestones in Space Exploration

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    This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. To mark its 60th anniversary, this month we will be reviewing some of the highlights achieved by NASA over the past 60 years, as well as those of Russia’s Space…

  • Teaching With Live Insects

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    Overcome student and teacher discomfort with this series of lessons—touching optional!

  • Virtual Oceanography

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    Studying river plumes using data visualization tools, ocean model data, and satellite imagery

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