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Scope on Safety: An Ounce of Preventive Maintenance
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This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue provides a short list of maintenance issues and associated safety problems that might arise if the physical plant of your school laboratory is…
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Scope on the Skies: You're Kidding? No, I'm Sirius!
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses having students look for, examine, and explain humor that is based on science concepts, ideas, or events.
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A series of modifications to the classic children's game of telephone helps students explore variation, inheritance, and evolution.
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Notebook prompts help second-grade students notice and reflect on change across the curriculum.
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What Happens When An Environment Changes?
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Visually exploring interdependent relationships among animals, plants, and fungi within students' local context.
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Fourth- and fifth-grade students model change in human–environment interactions.
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Editor's Note: Stability and Change
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Earth's Changing Surface
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue shows how to help children understand the crosscutting concept Stability and Change by looking at changes to the Earth's surface over…
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Formative Assessment Probes: No More Plants
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to uncover students' ideas about interdependency and change.
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Methods and Strategies: Garden-Based Learning: It's Just the Berries!
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes indoor and outdoor experiences that engage students in plant science.
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Science 101: How Does Stable Equilibrium Differ From Other Kinds of Equilibrium?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses the different types of equilibrium.
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The Early Years: Recognizing Stability and Change
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue introduces and discusses the concepts of stability and change in systems.
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To make our general education biology course for nonmajors more relevant and engaging, we recently implemented an instructional approach featuring collaborative, active-learning exercises. The primary point of interest…
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Large-enrollment undergraduate science courses are often seen as “gatekeepers” and tend to support less-than-ideal pedagogical approaches. Student satisfaction with teaching and learning and gains in student conceptual…
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As science teacher educators attempt to prepare teachers to underscore the aims of the Next Generation Science Standards alongside the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, they must pay close attention to the…
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