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Science Shorts: Experimental Error
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One of the most challenging components of science inquiry is getting students to understand the fundamentally important concept of experimental error. While this concept can be tricky for children, there are…
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Designing Teaching Facilities: Pedagogy as the Driving Force
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Pedagogy, the art and science of teaching, should be the driving force behind the design of any teaching facility. What is taught and how it is taught should determine the size, type, and configuration of educational…
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When students are regimented by lab manuals that dictate what to think, how to think, and when to think, lab activities essentially lose impact for learning. A constructivist approach (as opposed to the constructivist…
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Scope on the Skies: Ascent: A Community-Based Project to the Stratosphere
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses a community-based project to design and build a payload container that would be carried into the stratosphere by a high-altitude weather…
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Editor's Note: Exciting Involvement
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Editor's Corner: On Being World Class...
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In this month’s column, the field editor reflects on the educational reform bill, Goals 2000, which was drafted into law during the Clinton administration and specifically challenged U.S. science educators to produce…
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The author created a lesson in which students successfully practiced reading comprehension skills while developing an understanding of earthquakes.
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Antarctic Adaptations
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Penguins! This month’s Teaching Through Trade Books column celebrates those tuxedo-clad birds that have come to symbolize winter and provides students with the opportunity to investigate adaptations that help penguins…
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Tried and True: Solar System in the Hallway
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After studying phenomena related to the positions and motions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon, many students are familiar with the positional ordering of the planets, but their knowledge of the distances involved is vague.…
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This article describes how a Botany Laboratory Inquiry Project (BLIP) can be included in a general botany laboratory. The stated purpose of the BLIP component is to provide a student with the opportunity to select a…
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Kids tracking sea turtles? No, it’s not a description for a new nature show on TV, it’s a lesson, and it could be happening in your classroom! Sea turtle biologists worldwide are currently working together to track…
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Viral News: Media Literacy for the 21st Century
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The authors present a lesson designed to address the 21st-century skills of information and media literacy in the context of science issues. This lesson was embedded in a full unit focused on viruses and vaccines at the…
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Food Policy Researcher Caitlin Boon
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From safety to nutrition, food policy researchers work to improve what we eat. They examine evidence found by experts in food science, consumer behavior, taste perception, nutrition, and many other related fields. Using…
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Chromonoodles: Jump Into the Gene Pool
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The authors use pool "noodles" to model chromosomes in the biology classroom. Students gain a greater appreciation of the interdependence of DNA and inherited traits.
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Good teachers continually plan learning experiences to help young children make connections within and among areas of study (Zemelman, Daniel, and Hyde 1998). Integrating curriculum is important in helping children make…
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