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Analyzing Children’s Science Journals

By creating their own journal pages, children are able to depict their ways of seeing and understanding the science phenomena, constructing or reconst...

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Second-Grade Soil Scientists

After careful self-examination, the author revamped her soils unit to include a connection to the real world. As a result, students began to understan...

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Applying Ecological Principles on the Job

The authors developed a course that requires students to work in groups to address a local ecological problem of interest to a client external to the ...

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Let GIS Be Your Guide: Combining technology with content

The use of Geographic Information System (GIS) is emerging as an educational technology for developing contextually rich student learning. GIS are adv...

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Earth Science in the News

Earth scientists gather and analyze evidence of change on Earth through time to increase our understanding of the geologic past and the history of lif...

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Tech Trek: Getting students charged up about batteries

The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation’s (RBRC) lesson plan entitled Charge Up to Recycle! is a nonprofit organization that recycles Nickel-...

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Turning Bread into Rocks: A Multisensory Unit Opener

How can we engage middle school students and pique their interest in rocks? How can we better demonstrate the vital links between minerals and rocks? ...

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After the Bell: Amoebas and euglenas and paramecia ... Oh, My!

How can teachers develop lessons that maximize students’ science experiences outside of the classroom to better prepare them for the future work for...

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Beyond Paper and Pencil Assessments

Most paper-and-pencil assessments provide adequate insight into students’ ability and can help effectively guide instruction. A well-designed perfor...

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Recycling into Art

This interdisciplinary unit weaves art and science together to help students appreciate the importance of recycling. In this engaging activity, studen...

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Commentary: Our Time Has Come

An opinion piece about the teaching of evolution....

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More Space Shuttle Experiments Take Flight

In the November/December 1997 issue of Science and Children, the article “Space Shuttle Experiments Take Flight” described a unique industry mento...

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Solving Solutions: Exploring unknowns through chemistry

Developing middle school students’ problem-solving skills is a common goal of the National Science Education Standards and the Principles and Standa...