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  • Editor's Note: Systems and System Models

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    Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.

  • The Early Years: Exploring Systems

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    This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue describes a lesson that connects across several early childhood standards, including engineering design.

  • Formative Assessment Probes: Ice Cubes in a Bag

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    This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to uncover children's ideas about open and closed systems.

  • Teaching Through Trade Books: What's the Big Deal About Bees?

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    This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this month’s issue students explore the essential role of bees in our ecosystems and why the loss of bees is a very big deal.

  • Science 101: How Should We Use the Concept of Systems?

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    This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue provides activities to help explain how to teach about systems.

  • Project-Based Science

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    Engaging students in three-dimensional learning.

  • Methods and Strategies: The Future of Farming

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    This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes an integrated, multidisciplinary unit that introduces second-grade students to hydroponic gardening.

  • Engineering Encounters: A System of Systems

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    A STEM investigation project for intermediate students has real-life connections.

  • Near-Space Science

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    A ballooning project to engage students with space beyond the big screen.

  • Global Warning

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    Project-based science inspired by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

  • Treating Pompe Disease

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    Exploring cause and effect through a disease model.

  • The Community Connection

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    Engaging students and community partners in project-based science.

  • EQuIP-ped for Success

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    Measure the alignment and overall quality of your lessons and units with a rubric to help implement the Next Generation Science Standards.

  • Editor's Corner: Project-Based Science Learning

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

  • Science 2.0: Collaborative Data Collection via Google Forms

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    This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue describes a collaborative model of data collection.

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