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First-grade lessons on life science and classification address misconceptions....
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A place-based science curriculum incorporates the photovoice method....
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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....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Living?
Uncover the hidden meanings children construct....
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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....
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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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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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Elementary students must be challenged to ask good questions and develop inquiring attitudes. A well-known paper towel investigation gains new life and prepares students for their middle and high school years....
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A Standards-Based Science Fair
Students compete against standards, rather than against other students....
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First graders experience inquiry during a lesson on seed germination and plant growth. Although limited inquiry is used in the beginning while students are planting, once the seeds germinate, students take control! Students were able to construct the...
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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 inquiry guides and empowers this investigation!...
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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 observe and document their natural world. Children will not only practice reflecting on their experience...
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Every Day Science Calendar: March 2011
Facts and challenges for the science explorer....