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The ABCs of Assessment: Aligning assessment with instruction

Assessment often carries a negative connotation, but it is as important as curriculum and instruction and needs to be viewed as a positive enhancement...

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Outside Learning: It’s Elementary

Through a partnership with elementary teachers at Main Elementary School in Rome, Georgia, 42 children (one third-grade class and one fourth-grade cla...

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Enabling Science: NSF's Program for Persons with Disabilities

To promote greater inclusion of disabled students in science classrooms and to address the underrepresentation of persons with disabilities in science...

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Toys that Teach

Using toys to teach basic physical science concepts is a great way to engage students through hands-on experience with familiar objects. This article ...

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Centimeters, Millimeters, and Monsters

The activity described in this article reinforces metric skills as preservice teachers design monster clothes for an imaginary monster wedding. The hu...

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Someone’s in the Kitchen with Science

The kitchen is a natural source of science exploration and a great place for young children to develop and practice their science process skills. Thes...

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Research and Teaching: Student Understanding of Ionizing Radiation and Radioactivity

Results from research into the teaching and learning of physics have shown that many college students have significant conceptual and reasoning diffic...

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Editor's Note (October 2001)

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue, asking you to note how important "communication" is among the participant...

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Textbook Alignment: Aligning the curriculum with benchmarks and standards

Why is alignment so important? What difference does it make if textbooks include activities that are not aligned? The Benchmarks for Science Literacy ...

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Commentary: Science the Write Way

An opinion piece about the rapid advances in science and the challenges it represents for classroom teachers....

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Commentary: Science and Service Learning

An opinion piece about a successful service learning project in which students used research on plant types to bring a lively activity to local nursin...

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Students as Teachers

As an extra credit activity, teachers can let students take turns teaching class using the “each one teach one” approach. Student groups select an...