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Teaching Through Trade Books: Matter All Around Us
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s activities allow students to develop an “understanding of observable properties of materials [which] is developed by … analysis and…
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Science 101: Why Does It Take Longer to Boil Potatoes at High Altitudes?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue looks at why water boils at different temperatures at different altitudes.
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Science 102: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
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This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue presents a new challenge and answers the Raindrops Keep Falling challenge from last month.
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Engineering Encounters: Reverse Engineering
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This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information on how students’ everyday experiences can support science learning through engineering design. In this…
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Methods and Strategies: Much Ado About Nothing
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses how children think about the small-particle model of matter.
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Beat the Heat! An Investigation Into Heat Transfer, Cooling Capacities, and Dilution
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Explore claims that cold rocks can effectively chill a beverage without diluting it.
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Teaching in ways that help students understand the nature of science and how to use scientific reasoning patterns have long been central goals of science education. This article attempts to explicate the basic pattern…
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Upload, Download: Empowering Students Through Technology-Enabled Problem-Based Learning
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Harness students' fascination with technology and social media to build critical 21st-century skills.
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Yoga Therapist J. J. Gormley-Etchells
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In recent years, many individuals have looked to yoga to improve their well-being and many health care practitioners have encouraged it to complement healing. Recent studies demonstrate the beneficial effects of yoga…
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The authors developed a smART—science meets art—concept and created a summer camp for seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade students that combines art and science to teach about topics such as biology, chemistry, and…
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Planimal House: An inquiry-oriented project in which biology students study live organisms
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Planimal House is a six-week-long inquiry oriented project that enables biology students to learn the secrets of nature by doing in-depth research on living creatures. It brings biology and the nature of inquiry alive!
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The Early Years: Inquiry at Play
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Play and science inquiry are essential parts of early childhood programs. Imaginative play, unscripted yet guided by children’s own rules, allows students to use their imagination and develop self-regulation, symbolic…
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"It's ELEMENTary, My Dear Watson": A Crime Scene Investigation With a Technological Twist
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The Crime Scene Labs is a technology-enhanced unit with seven laboratory stations. Probes at many of the stations facilitate students collecting and analyzing their own data (some lessons are adapted from Volz and…
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Applied Chemical Technology Professional John Engelman
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Applied chemical technology professionals (ACTP) are key members of laboratory teams. From pharmaceutical testing to environmental monitoring and basic research to complex projects, they work in a variety of settings…
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Science 101: How does wireless internet work?
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Let’s see … first you head to a coffee shop and order a mocha caramel chai latte with an extra shot of espresso. Then you turn on your computer, hit the connect button, and start surfing the web. For those who want more…
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