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Constructing Arguments With 3-D Printed Models
Fourth-grade students model the external structure and function of bottom-dwelling fish....
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Crime Scene Soil Investigation
Fifth graders use mobile learning to solve a “crime.”...
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Science Notebooks for the 21st Century
Going digital provides opportunities to learn with technology rather than from technology....
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Get Ready for the Great American Eclipse!
A once-in-a-lifetime event provides an opportunity to increase science literacy....
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Technology aids second-grade students in data collection....
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Editor's Note: The Dilemmas of Technology
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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The Poetry of Science: Think It, Build It, Make It
Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways. This issue discusses inventing with technology....
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The Early Years: Integrating Digital Tools
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue talks about how digital media and robotics fit into the early childhood curriculum....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Teaming Up: Trade Books and Technology
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s trade books teach students about external and internal structures that allow animals and humans to survive....
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Engineering Encounters: Optimizing Your K–5 Engineering Design Challenge
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue discusses the optimizations that will serve to inform readers of seven recommendations for optimizing an engineering lesson....
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Methods and Strategies: Using Argument-Based Inquiry Strategies for STEM Infused Science Teaching
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This article focuses on an argument-based inquiry (ABI) approach to a fourth-grade unit on waves. A fourth-grade teacher included multiple opportunities for students to rea...
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Using Systems Mapping to Plan Scientific Investigations
Learn how to map mental models that students use to explain how the world works....
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Building Bots to Develop Systems Thinking
Construct a scribble bot and determine how each part functions to form a system....
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Build a submarine to explore how the density of an object affects its ability to float and sink....
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Call the Plumber! Engaging Students With Authentic Engineering Design Practices
Explore the plumbing of a house to build an optimal physical model of the system....
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Classic Lessons 2.0: Falling Into Understanding
This column shares updated perennial classroom favorites. In this lesson, seventh-grade students explore falling objects and try to explain why objects fall. Using a local university’s extensive exhibit on Galileo (see Resources), the teachers also...
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Teacher's Toolkit: Using Rubrics to Integrate Crosscutting Concepts
This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue explains the development of a rubric that may serve as a bridge between the learning outcomes associated with specific crosscutting concepts and...
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From the Editor's Desk: Systems Thinking Solutions
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Citizen Science: Ecosystems and Eagle Populations
This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Soar into systems thinking with the Mid-Winter Bald Eagle Survey....
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Disequilibrium: A Balancing Act
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event helps students identify and develop an understanding of the simple relationships between various components of a system. Students will find th...
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Listserv Roundup: From the Archives: Systems
This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. In this month’s column we dive into the NSTA listserv archives and look at some requests for resources on understanding and teach...
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Science for All: Going From Macro to Micro
This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. In this month's issue we discuss how you can use the theory of multipe intelligences to provide differentiation for your students....
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Teacher to Teacher: Assessing Crosscutting Concepts
This column provides practical advice from your peers. Cross Cutter Cards provide a method for students to apply a crosscutting concept when discussing similarities between two different phenomena....
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Scope on the Skies: Flipped Constellations
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses constellations....
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Integrating Technology: Students Making Systems Models: An Accessible Approach
This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. Teaching and learning about systems can be challenging without the right tools and curricular supports. The authors developed a tool to support ...
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Planning rich reading experiences that support language development and science learning....
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Editor's Corner: Digital Literacy—Is It Real?
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Science 2.0: Help Students Become Innovative Designers
This column shares web tools that support learning. The past three columns have described how teachers can implement the first three Empowered Learner Standards established by the International Society for Technology in Education. This month, the aut...
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The Green Room: The Top Five Environmental Stories of 2016
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. In this month’s issue the author presents 2016's top environmental stories plus some of the best websites for environmental news....
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Focus on Physics: When What You See Is What You Hear
This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This issue discusses the law of reflection....
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Health Wise: Why Teens Need the HPV Vaccine
This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses the need for students to receive the HPV vaccine....
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Idea Bank: Keep Current With a Journal Club
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. Students select science articles to read and report on during a monthly Journal Club. Students look forward to the activity each month. When students are given t...
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Career of the Month: Television Writer
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Katherine Lingenfelter's career path to becoming a television writer....
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Right to the Source: Why Scientists Write
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses a letter written by Alexander Graham Bell....
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This article details the aim, development, and implementation of the Chemistry-Genetics Course Collaborative, a cotaught offering of a human genetics course with an honors introductory chemistry course....
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Digital Badges in Science: A Novel Approach to the Assessment of Student Learning
Digital badging is an innovative method of valid, evidence-based assessment that may be used to assess hands-on skills in undergraduate science laboratories, in research laboratories, and in fieldwork. The authors have used digital badging to assess ...