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The author describes how to facilitate the inquiry experience so that teachers can generate wonderful settings for students to develop their own ideas...
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Methods and Strategies: Less Talk but Better Teacher Feedback
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month’s issue the author describes using redirects to improve st...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Mystery of Migration
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. The lessons in this month's column explore what we know about animal migration an...
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Natural Resources: The Farmer and the Bell
This column helps bring the outdoors into your curriculum. In this month’s issue information on starting your own school garden is provided....
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The Case of Lobster Shell Disease
The authors combined content-driven and inquiry-based lessons into the framework of problem-based learning. These older elementary students explored a...
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Editor's Note: Assessment: Learning Under Construction
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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In this article the authors discuss several assessment strategies that you can use and adapt for inquiry-based science units, using the example of a w...
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Science 101: What causes a charge to move from one substance to another?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the author describes how to build a primitive ele...
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Guest Editorial: What a copper-plated nail taught me about sharing research results
Linda Shore relives the first time she shared the results of a science experiment....
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The Early Years: Sharing Research Results
Students collect data about the qualities of various play doughs. ...