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Help students make connections between the four main branches of engineering—electrical, chemical, mechanical, and civil....
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Assign students specific tasks to complete a maker jigsaw electric circuit that models energy flow and transfer in a food web....
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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....
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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....
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Commentary: A Real-World STEM Competition
An opinion piece about the eCYBERMISSION competition....
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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
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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
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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