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The Green Room: The Top 5 Environmental Stories of 2017

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue highlights top environmental news....

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Focus on Physics: Our Molecular Selves

This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's issue discusses atoms and molecules....

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Career of the Month: Robotics Engineer

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Kevin Dowling's career path to becomin...

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Right to the Source: Invention vs. Innovation

Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the content of photographs of Thomas Edison and Emile Berline...

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Re-Formative Assessment: One Teacher’s Approach to Integrating Science Within Science to Reassess Student Understanding

Create open-ended prompts that integrate prior knowledge....

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Creating a Positive Feedback Culture: Eight Practical Principles to Improve Students’ Learning

Learn how to elicit evidence of student learning, provide effective feedback, and extend student learning beyond the assessment....

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Wilderness Water Crisis: Next Generation Science Standards–Aligned Assessments for an Energy Activity

Use a real-world scenario to engage in the scientific practice of collecting, analyzing, graphing, and interpreting data....

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Integrating Technology: Bringing Science to Life

This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. Using social learning to make real-world con...

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Teacher’s Toolkit: The Four Elements of the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, and Rebuttal (CERR) Framework

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. The CERR framework helps students synthesize science investigatio...

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From the Editor’s Desk: Engaging Students in Learning Through Assessment

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

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Commentary: Installing Glass Walls and Doors in the Science Classroom

An opinion piece about a science teacher team framework for improving student achievement....

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Citizen Science: Birds, Binoculars, and Biodiversity

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

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Disequilibrium: Why Is Regular Soda Denser Than Diet Soda?

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event helps students visualize the difference bet...

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Listserv Roundup: Technology tools for paperless formative assessment

This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. This month’s column focuses o...

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Science for All: Encouraging Academic Talk

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. Strategies for engaging all learners in classroom conversations....