All Science and Children resources

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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Living?

Uncover the hidden meanings children construct....

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A unit designed to help fourth graders explain (in writing) scientific concepts they learned through inquiry activities and explicit teaching....

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Science Shorts: Weather Watchers

A unit that emphasizes sensory observation, with the creation of appropriate weather instruments and models!...

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Sharing Digital Data

An online collaborative investigation of Brassica rapa (Wisconsin fast plants) by fifth-graders during a unit on the life cycle of plants....

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Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning

Fifth graders design and test strategies regarding levers to better their construction and justification of claims. ...

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Every Day Science Calendar: April

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Which Paper Towel is Best?

Elementary students must be challenged to ask good questions and develop inquiring attitudes. A well-known paper towel investigation gains new life an...

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A Standards-Based Science Fair

Students compete against standards, rather than against other students....

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Lose the Recipe

First graders experience inquiry during a lesson on seed germination and plant growth. Although limited inquiry is used in the beginning while student...

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From "Adding Inquiry" to "Doing Science"

Students get outside and wonder about trees. This leads to many questions, and one particularly interesting one: "Why do leaves change color?" Student...

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The Early Years: Inquiry Follow-Up

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this month’s issue, young children go birding to obse...

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Every Day Science Calendar: March 2011

Facts and challenges for the science explorer....

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Books Published in 2010)

Science is passion, science is wonder. The best books about science stir the minds and hearts of readers in very special ways and this impression can ...

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Five Strategies to Support All Teachers

Five strategies are outlined that have been used with elementary school teachers as they moved from a "cookbook" approach in science to an approach th...

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Guest Editorial: Inquiry Is Essential

An opinion piece about teaching children science as inquiry and the challenges to elementary teachers. One specific challenge is incorporating full in...