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A family-friendly activity uses worms to help young students investigate cause and effect....
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Real-World Units in the Conceptual Age
A forces and interaction unit pushes students toward higher levels of conceptual thinking....
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What Is a Foot Under Your Feet?
A project-based science unit for fifth graders explores soil quality....
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Summer and after-school programs can bring engineering design to underserved communities....
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Editor's Note: Cause and Effect
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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An opinion piece about computational thinking....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: What Goes Up Must Come Down!
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this month’s issue students explore cause-and-effect relationships to explain and predict the motion of objects....
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The Early Years: Cause and Effect: Where's the Evidence?
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue addresses the crosscutting concept of cause and effect as the column editor views it from her work with children ages 2–8....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Seeds in a Bag
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the formative assessment probe is designed to uncover students' use of a crosscutting concept—cause and effect—related to germination of a seed....