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Need a pick me up after a full day of NSTA conference sessions? Head to Cacao, a chocolate shop with the feel of an asian tea house. A shot of “...
By ManagingEditorSC
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Portland has a lot to offer, but if you only have time for one thing, make it Powell’s. The largest independent bookstore in the world fills a ...
By ManagingEditorSC
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Check out this digital resource
One of my roles on the SciLinks team is to find resources for a specific topic. Using several search engines, I browse through the lists and select...
By Mary Bigelow
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Today I visited the Rainbow Preschool, a half-day preschool with extended care in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of NE Portland....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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A few years ago, one of the speakers at our school’s career day was a graduate who was an environmental scientist. A student asked her what she ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Do you have any suggestions for grantwriting? I’ve just been told that the budget may be very lean next year, and I’d like to try to get a...
By MsMentorAdmin
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“I have to do a science project.” These words can produce a feeling of dread for students and parents, with visions of Styrofoam planets o...
By Mary Bigelow
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What do you want in your science lab?
If you could have the science lab of your dreams for preK through 2 students, what would it include?...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Every year my students come to class with the idea that it’s colder in the winter because the earth is farther away from the sun. Where did they...
By MsMentorAdmin
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Supporting children's observation: what will they remember?
Two particularly inquisitive and bright former preK students (siblings) unexpectedly attended a workshop I gave for early childhood teachers about bri...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I see that NSTA has just published the Tool Kit for Teaching Evolution by Judy Elgin Jensen. According to its description,...
By Mary Bigelow
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Science activities that children initiate motivate teachers to extend and expand the activity. Children learn more details about their area of interes...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I want to use more essay-type questions on my unit assessments, but with 150 students I feel swamped trying to grade all of the papers and provide fee...
By MsMentorAdmin
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Sink? Float? Try it with pumpkins
For an activity to explore buoyancy—what materials and which objects sink or float in water—I gave each child in a small group an object to hold....
By Peggy Ashbrook