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Journal Article
Engineering Encounters: The Paper Airplane Challenge
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month's issue students learn about variables and trials while designing an investigation....
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: The Tool and Eye
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this month’s issue students explore animal adaptations through books that show how body structures assist in survival or how animals use objects in their environment to meet th...
Journal Article
Disequilibrium: How Heat Affects the Density of Water
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event illustrates what happens when a container filled with warmer, less dense water is placed on top of a container filled with denser, cooler water...
Blog Post
Digging Deeper: Designing Solutions
This month’s Digging Deeper column for the Next Gen Navigator focuses on the practice of constructing explanations and designing solutions, and specifically the design process that addresses the engineering component of the Next Generation Science ...
By Cindy Workosky
Journal Article
Disequilibrium: Layered Liquids
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Students may hold onto the misconception that all liquids naturally combine when put into the same container (e.g., adding food coloring to water and adding chocolate syrup to...
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: Matter All Around Us
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s activities allow students to develop an “understanding of observable properties of materials [which] is developed by … analysis and classification” (NGSS Lead S...
Journal Article
Disequilibrium: The Bernoulli Bag
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Students explore pressure and the Bernoulli principle with a Bernoulli Bag....
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: Focusing on Earth’s Features
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue shows that allowing students to use both photographs and information presented through technology helps them begin to construct an understanding of landforms an...