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Formative Assessment Probes: Wet Jeans
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue uses familiar phenomena to uncover students' ideas.
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Engineering Encounters: Nature as Inspiration
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Learning about plant structures helps students design water collection devices.
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Methods and Strategies: 5E for ELL
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses adaptations to the learning cycle that provide an authentic context for English language development.
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Science 101: What Are the Earth's Heating and Cooling Mechanisms?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses some of the mechanisms of Earth that are related to global warming and climate change.
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Safety First: Safety at First Sight
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This columnn discusses eye protection in the elementary classroom.
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This column contains exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue discusses Fermi problems.
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See Less Sea-Less Seagulls: Planning for an Interdisciplinary STEM Unit
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Use place-based learning to design a yearlong STEM project.
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Connecting the Dots: Lasers Link Students to Their 3-D World
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Build an inexpensive LiDAR unit to promote student inquiry.
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Shrimp and Black Gill: Studying the Effect of Apostome Ciliates
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Explain patterns of ecological interactions using a role-playing game.
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Using Biographical Letters to Draw on the Nature of Science
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Bring a famous scientist to life by using an engaging biographical text with students.
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DCIs, SEPs, and CCs, Oh My! Understanding the Three Dimensions of the NGSS
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Learn how the Next Generation Science Standards seek to advance science teaching and learning.
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Using a STEM-Based Approach to Make Recycling Metallic Elements Relevant
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Integrate science, math, and engineering to solve a real-world problem.
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Editor's Roundtable: Interdisciplinary Teaching
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Tried and True: Using Observations of Fossils to Reconstruct Ancient Environments
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This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. In this month’s issue the authors describe how to foster students' understanding of observation-based data by sharing a 5E learning-cycle…
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Teacher's Toolkit: Bridging the Three Dimensions of the NGSS Using the Nature of Science
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This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue describes a process for modifying and implementing published lessons to explicitly teach nature of science so that…
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