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A teacher integrates science observations into the writing center. At the observation station, students explore new items with a science theme and use their notes and questions for class writings every day....
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Natural Resources: A Sixth Sense
This column helps bring the outdoors into your curriculum. This month’s issue talks about instilling a sense of wonder in your students....
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Students watch science narratives unfold in real time on the internet. Students collect, sort, analyze, and digest the information, and then they create a story based on their prior knowledge and their focus as they watch....
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T'was the Start of Science Notebooking
The authors discuss science notebooks and provide a list of approaches they have successfully implemented to introduce and reinforce science concepts. The article also includes a poem about science notebooking....
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Science 101: Why Do You Lose AM Radio Reception When You Go Under an Overpass?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue talks about electromagnetic waves....
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The Early Years: Reading Stories, Making Predictions
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses using books to help students learn to make predictions....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Teachers as Classroom Researchers
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses having teachers conduct their own study regarding students' thoughts on whether something is an animal....
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Science Shorts: How Many Ways Are There to Move?
This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. In this month’s issue the author uses the 5E learning cycle with third- and fourth-grade students to teach that a force is a push or pull....
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Recognizing Excellence: From Macro to Micro to Nano
This column features profiles of award-winning science programs and teachers. In this month’s issue the author shares his experience of working with a university researcher. Third-grade students benefit from this relationship and learn about the na...
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Formative Assessment Probes: Pushes and Pulls
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the assessment probe "Talking About Forces."...
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The Early Years: Objects in Motion
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this month’s issue students use small objects, such as tops, to explore motion. Students then perform data collection of movement with the teacher's help...
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Inquiry Science and Active Reading
The author presents a pair of fifth-grade activities: an inquiry science activity in which students conduct hands-on investigations of force and motion, and a reading activity where they collaboratively analyze a text that contains words that have be...
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The Art and Science of Notebooks
Along with inquiry-based teaching, exploring the elements of art can guide students to view and represent objects realistically. Understanding line, shape, color, value, form, space, and texture helps bridge the gap between what students actually obs...