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The Poetry of Science: Light and Sound
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Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways. This month's issue discusses sound.
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Science 101: What’s Really Going on in Electric Circuits?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses how electric circuits work.
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Methods and Strategies: Claims and Evidence
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. Learn how to create opportunities for students to practice speaking and writing about science.
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Engineering Encounters: Robots, Bookmarks, and Guitars, Oh My!
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This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue discusses fusing art and design into an upper-elementary electricity unit.
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Designing and Building a Rube Goldberg Machine to Contextualize a Unit on Energy
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Explore the conservation and transfer of energy by building a device that completes a simple task.
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I Get It! Moving Students From Misconceptions to Conceptual Change
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Move students toward deep, accurate scientific understanding using the conceptual change model.
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Design an Energy-Efficient House: Applying Multidisciplinary Knowledge to Solve a Design Challenge
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Can you keep a house warm while avoiding high energy bills?
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Food and Energy for All: Turning a Demonstration Into an Inquiry Activity
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Explore the reactants of photosynthesis to explain that they are raw materials and not food.
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From the Editor's Desk: Tapping Into Energy
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Classic Lessons 2.0: The Come Back Can
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This column shares updated perennial classroom favorites.This article describes a science activity that can be used to demonstrate the law of conservation of energy. The activity involves inquiry and problem solving…
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Citizen Science: Power Up Science Learning With NOVA’s Energy Lab
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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 month's column will help teachers transform science learning from passive…
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Disequilibrium: A Human Circuit
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This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event involves creating a human circuit using gadgets.
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Listserv Roundup: Getting Smart With Energy
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This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. NSTA's Physical Science listserv members recently discussed information about energy and its…
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Science for All: Empowering Students Through Collaboration
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This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's column provides strategies for grouping students to increase their productivity, accountability, engagement, and performance levels, while…
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Teacher to Teacher: Predicting, Explaining, and Observing Thermal Energy Transfer
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This column provides practical advice from your peers. This month's columnn discusses using the Mixing Water formative assessment probe from Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Vol. 2 to determine student thinking…
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