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In this activity, students are challenged to see how problem solving can be applied to all aspects of their lives. Students learn how to separate and control variables, identify relationships, and make predictions in…
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K—12: Books Published in 2006
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Apples and oranges … and lychees and loquats—how can one compare? That’s the challenge when a team of NSTA’s best science educators attempt to select the best of each year’s science trade books. It’s been 34 years since…
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Learning to Remember: Building memory cues into a geology lesson
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Current neuroscience and psychology research has tremendously affected what we know about how people learn. Recent insights into the brain’s natural tendencies can help educators align strategies and activities to…
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Idea Bank: Roller Coaster Inquiry
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This project, which centers on roller coaster design, engages students in learning about physics and activates their prior knowledge in an open-inquiry environment. The activity also gets students involved with inquiry…
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Science students will discover the beauty of communing with nature by utilizing a Nature journal during field observations. Nature journaling is a useful skill, independent of whether students consider themselves…
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Using Web-Based Simulations to Promote Inquiry
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Science teachers seek engaging, effective, and inquiry-based activities that are standards-aligned and convenient to implement in their classrooms. For many years, the web has provided teachers and students with a vast…
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Explaining Electrical Circuits
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A unit designed to help fourth graders explain (in writing) scientific concepts they learned through inquiry activities and explicit teaching.
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Although Mendeleeff presented his periodic chart in a paper to the German Chemical Society in 1869, its acceptance was a gradual process. The changes in the chart and its movement to its present position inside the…
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The Science and Mathematics of Building Structures
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Everyday activities—like building with blocks—can be the basis for meaningful learning that meets national educational standards in science and mathematics. Preschool students played with different kinds of building…
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An O-“fish”-ial Research Project
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In this “O-“fish”-ial” research project, third-grade students use multiple resources to research several fish species, write a research paper and develop a PowerPoint presentation to communicate their findings. In…
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One way to help students develop their writing skills is through the “key-word process.” In this method, students select key words about a topic and then use those words to build their own sentences and paragraphs. The…
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Idea Bank: Joining the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Would you like to get your students involved in an authentic search for extraterrestrial intelligence? The SETI@home project is an ongoing science experiment harnessing the power of computers via the internet. The…
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In this integrated unit, third grade students become spider scientists as they observe spiders in their classroom to debunk some common misconceptions about these intimidating creatures. Charlotte’s Web is used to…
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This article addresses misconceptions surrounding the Coriolis force and describes how it should be presented as a function within inertial and noninertial frames of reference. Not only does this demonstrate the nature…
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After the Bell: Modeling museum collaboration
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Entering a partnership with a local museum is a great way to gain access to materials, facilities, and science expertise that might be unavailable at the school. This article contains a description of a museum/school…
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