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Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: Evidence Helps the KWL Get a KLEW
This article discusses the Know-Learning-Evidence-Wonder (KLEW) chart, a modification on the Know-Want-Learn (KWL) chart. This new chart was develope...
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Ask the Experts -- February 2006
In this month's Ask the Experts column, the following questions are addressed, "Why does the Moon show phases when viewed from Earth, but Earth always...
Journal Article
Science Fiction & Science Literacy
Science fiction is read not only for enjoyment, but because it digs into scientific concepts with imagination, creativity, and a thorough appreciation...
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Literacy in Science: A Natural Fit
Reading is an essential part of science literacy, but what, when, and how can we incorporate reading in the science classroom? To address these questi...
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Science Sampler: Handmade weather instruments
For students to truly understand the science behind weather phenomena, they should be familiar with such physical concepts as the movement of molecule...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Exploring Your Environment
February is one of those months that is at the halfway point between the cold of the winter and the promise of the spring. It also offers a great tim...
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Science Sampler: The Hot Zone: An interdisciplinary project on viruses
This integrated language arts and science project is based on selected parts of The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Students read the parts of the book t...
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The Early Years: Nurturing Young Chemists
Chemistry explorations in early childhood classrooms often involve baking, mixing, or dissolving, during which students predict outcomes and try to re...
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Editor's Corner - Science Literacy: Then and Now
The history of science is also a history of science writing. For scientists and also for our science students, the ability to communicate through writ...
Book Chapter
This first chapter starts off with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and a few other things. It gives a demonstration of th...
Book Chapter
Given that the vast majority of people reading this book will never ever have to teach calculus, you might be wondering why in the world the topic is ...
Book Chapter
This chapter deals with fractions and decimals. This is one place where people who are otherwise fine with math jump off the boat and decide it's jus...
Book Chapter
This chapter contains basic material related to exponents that is a supplement to Chapters 1 and 2. Keeping with the theme of the first two chapters,...
Book Chapter
This chapter is all about negative numbers, and how to deal with them. They're not all that difficult to understand, but for some reason people get j...
Book Chapter
Why Do They Have to Gum Everything Up With Those Letters?
Often people who are relatively comfortable doing math with numbers completely freak out when variables (you know, those letters that take the place o...