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Connect-the-Engineer Activity

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Connect-the-Engineer Activity

Help students make connections between the four main branches of engineering—electrical, chemical, mechanical, and civil....

Illuminating Food Webs

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Illuminating Food Webs

Assign students specific tasks to complete a maker jigsaw electric circuit that models energy flow and transfer in a food web....

Making in the Middle: Celebrity Statues

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Making in the Middle: Celebrity Statues

This column explores maker spaces, engineering and more. Students learn computational thinking by designing biomimetic robots....

From the Editor’s Desk: Reinventing STEM Through the Maker Movement

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From the Editor’s Desk: Reinventing STEM Through the Maker Movement

Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

Commentary: A Real-World STEM Competition

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Commentary: A Real-World STEM Competition

An opinion piece about the eCYBERMISSION competition....

Disequilibrium: Flight and the Bernoulli Effect

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Disequilibrium: Flight and the Bernoulli Effect

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This lesson incorporates several discrepant events that demonstrate Bernoul...

Science For All: Engineering a Classroom That Works for All

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Science For All: Engineering a Classroom That Works for All

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. The authors have found that there are multiple strategies that support students with ...

Interdisciplinary Ideas: Creating a Classroom Library

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Interdisciplinary Ideas: Creating a Classroom Library

This column shares ways to bring other subjects into the science classroom. This issue discusses the importance of building your classroom library....

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Teacher To Teacher: Forming Parent-Teacher Relationships Around Three-Dimensional Learning

This column provides practical advice from your peers. This article is based on several conversations the author has had with teachers using three-dim...

Citizen Science: Be a Zombee Hunter for Science

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Citizen Science: Be a Zombee Hunter for Science

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Celebrate...

Middle School Life Science Technology Teaching Strategies Citizen Science Interdisciplinary

Scope on the Skies: Return to Sender (part 2)

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Scope on the Skies: Return to Sender (part 2)

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This issue discusses NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission....

The Maker Movement Is Everywhere, Including in the Current Issue of CSL

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The Maker Movement Is Everywhere, Including in the Current Issue of CSL

Editor Dennis Schatz welcomes you to the seventh issue of Connected Science Learning, focused on STEM learning experiences through making.  ...

By Dennis Schatz

Informal Education Technology

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Taking the Maker Experience From a Local Phenomenon to National Implementation

MAKESHOP at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is open for all to experience hands-on building and tinkering, and their initiative has spread natio...

By Chip Lindsey, Lisa Brahms, and Kathryn Koffler

Informal Education

Making Deeper Learners

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Making Deeper Learners

Educators from the Exploratorium Tinkering Studio and the Lighthouse Community Public Schools explored how out-of-school Making and Tinkering programs...

By Bronwyn Bevan, Jean J. Ryoo, Aaron Vanderwerff, Mike Petrich, and Karen Wilkinson

Informal Education

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Through My Window

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By Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, and Isabel Huff

Informal Education

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