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Methods and Strategies: The Future of Farming
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....
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Engineering Encounters: Elephant Trunks and Dolphin Tails
An elephant-trunk design challenge introduces students to engineering for animals....
NSTA Kids
Mrs. Carter's Butterfly Garden
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!Inform and inspire young naturalists with this book about a very special butterfly garden. Mrs. Carter’s Butterfly Garden is the story of how former First Lady Rosalynn Carter started a fron...
NSTA Kids
This colorful book takes students on a ramble through a school yard garden—past the seeding beds, along the compost bin, and over to the bird house and bird bath. Along the way, children learn what insects, animals, and plants need to thrive and di...
NSTA Kids
Next Time You See a Maple Seed
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! It’s fun to toss maple seeds up in the air and watch them spin down to the ground like nature’s own helicopters. This book prompts inquisitive kids to learn about these marvels of aerial...
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Safety First: Feather, Feet, and Fin Safety in the Classroom
This article describes the safety and responsibility issues that come with using animals in the classroom....
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The Early Years: Ecosystems, Up Close and Personal
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses children observing and documenting the growth of a plant from a seed to seed-production and animal interactions with the plant....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Habitat Change: Formative Assessment of a Cautionary Word
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses word usage and learning about habitat....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Made of Parts?: Scaffolding a Formative Assessment Probe
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores structure and function as it relates to animals and plants....