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What Does Culture Have To Do With Teaching Science?
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Teaching plant growth from an Asian-Hindu lens.
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Methods and Strategies: Derby Design Day
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Connections and collaborations between elementary and high school students in physical science, math, and engineering design.
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The author suggests ways in which these two documents complement one another and can support teachers to bring a subject-matter serious perspective to teaching and learning in grades preK through five.
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Habitable Homes
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue focuses on the diversity of different animal habitats and the adaptations of the organisms within them.
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The Early Years: Food for Thought
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this month’s issue students focus on possible evidence of animals using plants for food or shelter.
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Formative Assessment Probes: When Is the Next Full Moon? Using K–2 Concept Cartoons
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue uses concept cartoons to assess students' ideas about the moon.
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Science 101: How Does an Electron Microscope Work?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the electron microscope is explained.
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Exploring Thermal Insulation: From Cookbook to Inquiry
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Learn to transform a cookbook lab exercise into a true inquiry experience.
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Cross-Disciplinary Writing: Scientific Argumentation, the Common Core, and the ADI Model
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Discuss and evaluate argument-related products that are critical elements of science content.
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English Language Arts and Science: A Shift Toward Student Success
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Strengthen language-arts and science skills while exploring why our planet has seasons.
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Developing and Using Models to Align With NGSS
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Bring the Earth-Moon-Sun system into alignment with the Next Generation Science Standards.
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Innovative Composite Research Modeled in the Middle School Classroom
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Engage in an engineering activity to help students understand the work of engineers and the links between engineering and science.
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Next Generation Science Standards: Lost in the Woods?
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Navigate through the unfamiliar terrain of the NGSS and learn how it connects to the Common Core.
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Incorporating Models Into Science Teaching to Meet the Next Generation Science Standards
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Discover what the NGSS has to say about the proper use of models in the middle school classroom.
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Measure and model trees to emphasize that mathematics is the language of science.