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Second graders learn basics of engineering through an exploration of Maglev technology.
By Hannah Kye
Second graders learn basics of engineering through an exploration of Maglev technology.
Second graders learn basics of engineering through an exploration of Maglev technology.
Second graders learn basics of engineering through an exploration of Maglev technology.
The Worms Are Dancing!
An integrated learning experience with preschoolers
Science and Children—April/May 2019
By Alissa Lange, Lynn Lodien, and Anna Lowe
An integrated learning experience with preschoolers
An integrated learning experience with preschoolers
An integrated learning experience with preschoolers
It’s Alive?!?
Accurately modeling how science works using patterns in a kindergarten classroom.
Pulley Islands
Third graders conquer a tinkering challenge
Right to the Source
Science for All—19th Century "Edutainment"
By Michael Apfeldorf
In 19th-century America, one popular way people obtained new scientific information was through traveling lectures and science demonstrations, sometimes held in large halls called “lyceums.” Before the advent of radio and television, these were large public events designed to both educate and entertain. Often, such scientific demonstrations were great spectacles—as much or more about marketing and entertainment as they were about education.
In 19th-century America, one popular way people obtained new scientific information was through traveling lectures and science demonstrations, sometimes held in large halls called “lyceums.” Before the advent of radio and television, these were large public events designed to both educate and entertain. Often, such scientific demonstrations were great spectacles—as much or more about marketing and entertainment as they were about education.
In 19th-century America, one popular way people obtained new scientific information was through traveling lectures and science demonstrations, sometimes held in large halls called “lyceums.” Before the advent of radio and television, these were large public events designed to both educate and entertain. Often, such scientific demonstrations were great spectacles—as much or more about marketing and entertainment as they were about education.
Career of the Month
Ecologist
By Luba Vangelova
Ecologists are biologists who study entire ecosystems and the interactions among their living and non-living components. Ecology can be applied in areas such as conservation biology, natural resource management, and even economics. Todd Elliott, who grew up in North Carolina, has been working as a freelance ecologist, photographer, and educator, and is currently working on his PhD in ecology in Australia.
Ecologists are biologists who study entire ecosystems and the interactions among their living and non-living components. Ecology can be applied in areas such as conservation biology, natural resource management, and even economics. Todd Elliott, who grew up in North Carolina, has been working as a freelance ecologist, photographer, and educator, and is currently working on his PhD in ecology in Australia.
Ecologists are biologists who study entire ecosystems and the interactions among their living and non-living components. Ecology can be applied in areas such as conservation biology, natural resource management, and even economics. Todd Elliott, who grew up in North Carolina, has been working as a freelance ecologist, photographer, and educator, and is currently working on his PhD in ecology in Australia.
Focus on Physics
Refraction
By Paul G. Hewitt
Exploring light as it moves from one medium to another with the intriguing result of different speeds—the bending of light we call refraction.
Exploring light as it moves from one medium to another with the intriguing result of different speeds—the bending of light we call refraction.
Exploring light as it moves from one medium to another with the intriguing result of different speeds—the bending of light we call refraction.
A Web of Ideas
(Volume 86, Issue 8)
By Michael Giamellaro, Jackson Blackburn, Molly Honea, and Jacob LaPlante
Fostering scientific discourse with spider web discussions
Fostering scientific discourse with spider web discussions
Fostering scientific discourse with spider web discussions
Genetics for All
(Volume 86, Issue 8)
By Lauren Stewart, Donna Ross, and Kimberly Elliot
This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and struggling readers during an introductory unit on genetics. Due to space constraints, this paper does not include all assignments from the unit, but instead provides a sample of instructional approaches to promote success among all science students.
This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and struggling readers during an introductory unit on genetics. Due to space constraints, this paper does not include all assignments from the unit, but instead provides a sample of instructional approaches to promote success among all science students.
This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and struggling readers during an introductory unit on genetics. Due to space constraints, this paper does not include all assignments from the unit, but instead provides a sample of instructional approaches to promote success among all science students.
The Perfect Match
(Volume 86, Issue 8)
By Julie Reynolds
A lesson that focuses on the intricate co-evolution of flowers with their pollinators is one way to help students learn the delicate balance in nature and help ensure that our actions do not upset this balance. In this lesson students use the engineering design process to engineer a flower that is a perfect model for its chosen pollinator. Next, they construct an explanation of the coevolution process that occurs between flowers and their pollinators. The lesson addresses HS-LS4-4 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity from NGSS and covers Common Core Writing Standard CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.11-12.1.B. The various activities in this lesson allow for individual work, whole class discussion, and group work consisting of groups of 2-3 students. This lesson is a great way to use plants as the model for teaching evolutionary concepts in a biology class, can be done in conjunction with other lessons on floral reproductive anatomy, or as a stand-alone lesson as long as attention is given to new vocabulary. At the conclusion of this lesson, students will have a model of a flower that they will use as an aid in constructing an argument on the coevolution of flowers and their pollinators.
A lesson that focuses on the intricate co-evolution of flowers with their pollinators is one way to help students learn the delicate balance in nature and help ensure that our actions do not upset this balance. In this lesson students use the engineering design process to engineer a flower that is a perfect model for its chosen pollinator. Next, they construct an explanation of the coevolution process that occurs between flowers and their pollinators.
A lesson that focuses on the intricate co-evolution of flowers with their pollinators is one way to help students learn the delicate balance in nature and help ensure that our actions do not upset this balance. In this lesson students use the engineering design process to engineer a flower that is a perfect model for its chosen pollinator. Next, they construct an explanation of the coevolution process that occurs between flowers and their pollinators.