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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...
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Science 101: Why Does It Take Longer to Boil Potatoes at High Altitudes?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue looks at why water boils at different temperatures at different altitudes....
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Science 102: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue presents a new challenge and answers the Raindrops Keep Falling challenge from last month. ...
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Engineering Encounters: Reverse Engineering
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information on how students’ everyday experiences can support science learning through engineering design. In this article, the authors outline a ...
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Methods and Strategies: Much Ado About Nothing
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses how children think about the small-particle model of matter....
NSTA Press Book
Problem-Based Learning in the Earth and Space Science Classroom, K–12
Implementing PBL is difficult for teachers, and few curriculum guides are available to support their efforts. This book fills that gap by providing the kinds of strategies and examples teachers need to facilitate open-ended inquiry in their science c...
By Tom J. McConnell, Joyce Parker, Janet Eberhardt
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The Early Years: Exploring Biodiversity
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. The objective in this month’s issue is to introduce children to the diversity of plant life in a given area through a plant scavenger hunt, and to guide chi...