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Living or Nonliving?

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Living or Nonliving?

First-grade lessons on life science and classification address misconceptions....

All About Me/All About Gary

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All About Me/All About Gary

A place-based science curriculum incorporates the photovoice method....

Teaching Through Trade Books: Delving Into Disasters

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Delving Into Disasters

Students uncover information about previous natural disasters or events to construct explanations using science process skills....

Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Living?

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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Living?

Uncover the hidden meanings children construct....

Explaining Electrical Circuits

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Explaining Electrical Circuits

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

Science Shorts: Weather Watchers

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Science Shorts: Weather Watchers

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

Sharing Digital Data

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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....

Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning

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Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning

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

Which Paper Towel is Best?

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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...

A Standards-Based Science Fair

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A Standards-Based Science Fair

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

Lose the Recipe

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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...

From "Adding Inquiry" to "Doing Science"

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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...

The Early Years: Inquiry Follow-Up

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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...

Every Day Science Calendar: March 2011

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Every Day Science Calendar: March 2011

Facts and challenges for the science explorer....

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