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Bringing the Maker Movement to School

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Bringing the Maker Movement to School

Fourth-grade students create projects to illustrate the transfer and transformation of energy....

Investigating Axial Seamount: Using Student-Generated Models to Understand Plate Tectonics

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Investigating Axial Seamount: Using Student-Generated Models to Understand Plate Tectonics

Teach students to use their own models as tools for constructing a scientific explanation of a natural phenomenon....

Achieving Liftoff

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Achieving Liftoff

Using coherent storylines to explain phenomena....

Feet Wet, Hands Dirty: Engaging Students in Science Teaching and Learning With Stream Investigations

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Feet Wet, Hands Dirty: Engaging Students in Science Teaching and Learning With Stream Investigations

Stream investigation and restoration projects offer unique experiential opportunities to engage students in outdoor learning experiences that are rel...

Remaking Science Fairs

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Remaking Science Fairs

Adaptations create science conventions that avoid the typical pitfalls of science fair time....

Celebrating Science With the Community

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Celebrating Science With the Community

An approach to science fairs intended to create learning celebrations....

Firefly, Firefly

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Firefly, Firefly

First-grade students learn, talk, and write about light....

Seeing Science in Haiku

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Seeing Science in Haiku

Primary students explore connections between science and writing....

The Early Years: Classroom Memories

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The Early Years: Classroom Memories

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue provides an activity to encourage stu...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Physical Science 5E Inquiry Literacy

Editor's Note: Creating Meaningful Products

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Editor's Note: Creating Meaningful Products

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

Elementary Inquiry NGSS Performance Expectations

Teaching Through Trade Books: What We Do With Ideas

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Teaching Through Trade Books: What We Do With Ideas

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue focuses on allowing students to expand their thinking around...

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

The Poetry of Science: Sinking and Floating

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The Poetry of Science: Sinking and Floating

Build literacy in playful, meaningful ways with sinking and floating....

Elementary General Science Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Literacy

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