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Two-Year Community: Integrating Undergraduate Research at Two-Year Colleges
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Because community colleges contain smaller class sizes, agile course structures, and faculty dedicated to best practice approaches, these institutions are inherently capable of developing more student research platforms…
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The Early Years: The Sun's Energy
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Understanding the connection between the Sun’s energy and sustaining life is difficult for preschoolers, but learning about these concepts through both long and short-term activities captures children’s short attention…
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The Early Years: Light Foundations
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The day-and-night cycle forms the basis for understanding many other natural cycles in plants, animals, and Earth processes, as well as later learning about the solar system, and it is part of the National Science…
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The Early Years: Thinking Space
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Space exploration is a high-interest topic for girls and boys. They love to play with space models (toys), pore over space images, talk about what they have seen in the sky or on television, and play astronaut. Use the…
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Scientific Discoveries the Year I Was Born
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In this learning activity, students research what significant scientific advances happened in the year of their birth and present them to the class. The activity promotes writing, helps students enhance their scientific…
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The Early Years: Collards and Caterpillars
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Community, assemblage, network, complex, interdependent, web, and synergism—definitions of an ecosystem often include these words to highlight the dynamic interrelated workings of plants and animals with their physical…
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The Early Years: Documenting Learning
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Children’s work documents their thinking and the details they note as they learn more. Over time, by drawing, dictating, or writing about their observations, children can reveal and deepen their understanding of science…
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