From the Editor's Desk: Speaking Up for All

Journal Article | October 2016

Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.

Classic Lessons 2.0: Science Cafés

Journal Article | October 2016

This column shares updated perennial classroom favorites. An affordable, easy-to-implement model that introduces young girls to STEM-related topics, careers, and role models.

Teacher's Toolkit: Rocking Out Science!

Journal Article | October 2016

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue describes how to use music videos to engage students and assess science learning.

Citizen Science: Fly Into Schoolyard Citizen Science With eBird

Journal Article | October 2016

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Engage students in science as you contribute authentic data to eBird by…

Disequilibrium: Edible Candles

Journal Article | October 2016

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Students must distinguish between observations and inferences. This month’s discrepant event will refresh your students’ knowledge about the…

Science for All: Accessibility at the Onset

Journal Article | October 2016

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. By beginning class with a task that the majority of students will be able to complete on their own, such as asking an open-ended question, you will foster…

Listserv Roundup: Four Essential Strategies for Differentiating Science Lessons

Journal Article | October 2016

This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. In this month’s column, the author focuses on the general differentiation advice shared via the NSTA…

Teacher to Teacher: Instructional Scaffolds Can Support Students

Journal Article | October 2016

This column provides practical advice from your peers. The author discusses two scaffolds that she uses to support student writing: writing frames and graphic organizers.

Scope on the Skies: The Historic Stars in Our Skies

Journal Article | October 2016

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the luminosity, or apparent brightness, of some stars as seen from Earth.

Materials Science and the Problem of Garbage

Journal Article | October 2016

Where does all that stuff go?

Learning From the Fruit Fly

Journal Article | October 2016

A card game for teaching Mendel’s laws, meiosis, and Punnett squares.

Settling the Score

Journal Article | October 2016

Exploring the historic debate over atomic bonding.

The Microscopic World of Diatoms

Journal Article | October 2016

Students collect stream water to study a biological indicator that can help detect pollution.

Editor’s Corner: Growing Mountains of Trash

Journal Article | October 2016

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.

Science 2.0: When Students Become Digital Citizens

Journal Article | October 2016

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month, the authors discuss the Digital Citizen standard where “students(will) recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and…