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Snapshot Safari: Elephant Edition
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Citizen Science article for the September/ October 2024 issue of Science Scope
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Using Conferences to Give Students a Sense of Belonging
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Conducting student conferences similar to those used by English Language Arts teachers to improve reading skills can give middle school science students a sense of belonging and ownership in science. Once a set of…
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Integrating Careers Into Your NGSS Lessons
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Middle school is a critical time when students form ideas and preferences regarding careers they might pursue. Employers sometimes have difficulties filling STEM job openings, yet students often are not even aware these…
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Scope on the Skies regular column. An SEL-based look at comets, their impact on society, and how they are named.
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Expanding Language Use: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners’ Sensemaking in Science
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Students bring with them rich cultural and linguistic ways of knowing and communicating when engaged in figuring out explanations of phenomena. However, it is a challenge for teachers to support bi/multilingual learners…
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Meeting the Needs of the Refugee Students in Your Science Classroom
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Your new student roster includes refugee students. You want to communicate with them and make them feel welcome in their new science classroom; however, given their limited English and traumatic experiences that are…
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Social-Emotional Learning in the Science Classroom
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From the Editor's Desk
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In the face of the escalating climate crisis, effective climate education is imperative, not only for imparting knowledge, but also for inspiring action. This paper explores innovative strategies for teaching climate…
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Determining the Relative Mass Between the Nucleus and Electrons Modeling Lab
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Freshman general science students already know the atom is composed of a nucleus containing protons and neutrons with electron circling the nucleus. This hands-on modeling lab allows students to visualize and discover…
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Students with Visual Impairments can be Successful in Science
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One of the goals of the Next Generation Science Standards is to make science accessible to all students, which includes students with disabilities such as blindness and visual impairments (BVI). However, educators of…
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All students should have opportunities to investigate issues related to their personal interests and community priorities. Teachers value these goals but often lack materials that follow students' meaningful questions…
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Researchers have long called for integrating socio-scientific issues (SSIs) in science instruction, recognizing the importance of connecting science learning with societal challenges. Our proposed three-day unit design…
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Scope on the Skies November/December 2024
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This phenomenon-driven unit focuses on students making sense of the mutually beneficial species interactions between legumes and rhizobia. Many science classes spend less time studying the nitrogen cycle due to time…
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Engaging Middle School Students with the Nature of Particles, Waves, and Light
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This three-day unit engages students in the exploration of light behavior and makes connections to the advanced idea of the wave-particle duality of light. Students begin by exploring the behaviors of marbles (particles…
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