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Engineering Encounters: The Paper Airplane Challenge
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This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month's issue students learn about variables and trials while designing an investigation.
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Methods and Strategies: Formative Assessment Practices to Support Students who Struggle in Science
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue highlights how formative assessment activities support instructional shifts, of three Indiana Science Initiative (ISI)…
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Empowering Sixth-Grade Students Through a Climate Change Lesson
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Can a single human impact the planet’s climate?
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Do plants benefit from increased levels of CO2?
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Looking Backward, Looking Forward
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Expand students’ understanding of climate and climate change through an exploration of the geologic record.
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Using Packrat Midden Models to Investigate Climate Variability
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Explore past climates with these unique natural archives.
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The Seabird Mystery Lesson: Integrating Science Inquiry and Science Literacy
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Can your students explain why auklets are dying?
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A Gassy World: A Climate Change Investigation
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Will warming oceans be better or worse at absorbing CO2?
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This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article describes a student-driven approach to learning and communicating about climate change, in which…
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From the Editor's Desk: Tackling the Complex Issue of Climate Change
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Citizen Science: Be a Bat Detective!
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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. Students classify bat calls by listening to short clips of sound recordings…
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Disequilibrium: Measuring Our Rising Sea Levels
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This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Does the melting Antarctica ice cause sea levels to rise more than melting Arctic ice? This month’s discrepant event answers this question.
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Listserv Roundup: Growth Mindset in the Classroom
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This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. This month's column provides tips that can help teachers promote a community of growth mindset…
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Science For All: Self-Improvement Through Goal Setting
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This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. In September's column, the authors discussed the importance of grit and how you can help your students become grittier throughout the school year. In…
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Teacher to Teacher: Vote, Discuss, Revote: A Formative Assessment Classroom Technique
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This column provides practical advice from your peers. Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques, or FACTS, allow teachers to assess student thinking. This article discusses the Vote-Discuss-Revote (VDR) FACT. VDR…
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