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  • Focus on Physics: Skateboard Physics

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    This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's issue uses physics to explain a skateboard move.

  • Health Wise: If Students Injure Their Heads

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    This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses what happens when students get concussions.

  • Career of the Month: Acoustical Consultant

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    This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Pantelis Vassilakis's career path to becoming an acoustical consultant.

  • Right to the Source: Dancing With Radium

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    Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses how when the chemical element radium was first discovered in 1898, it was thought to be a cure for everything. The original…

  • Read All About It

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    Exploring multiple genres of writing ensures students get a fuller picture of science.

  • Dissecting Student Dialogue

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    Speaking and listening, in the form of collaborative conversation, enhances the depth of students’ science knowledge.

  • Learning Science in a Second Language

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    Incorporating science notebooks into a fifth-grade language immersion program accentuates the learning in both science and writing.

  • Supporting Academic Language

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    Simple strategies can encourage the use of scientific vocabulary, language, and discussion.

  • Sensing Matter—Is It a Liquid or Solid?

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    Students classify materials based on physical properties.

  • The Poetry of Science: What Do Scientists Do?

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    Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways.

  • Teaching Through Trade Books: Recording Scientific Explorations

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    This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue has students engaging in documentation when they perform investigations and sketch, label, or provide details about their work and…

  • The Early Years: Getting Deep With Documentation

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    This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this kindergarten practice, storytelling leads to drawing, adding more detail, and then writing as literacy skills are…

  • Science 101: How Does Speech-Recognition Software Work?

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    This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue explains the origins of speech-recognition software.

  • Science 102: Raindrops Keep Falling Answer

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    This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue answers the Raindrops Keep Falling challenge from last month.

  • Engineering Encounters: An Engineering Design Process for Early Childhood

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    This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information about trying (again) to engineer an egg package.

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