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Teaching Through Trade Books: Wild About Data
In today’s world of short attention spans and media overload, the ability to create visual representations to communicate data is an important skill. This month’s lessons focus on various ways to display data and the purpose of visual representat...
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One tool for enhancing students’ work with data in the science classroom is the measure line. As a coteacher and curriculum developer for The Inquiry Project, the author has seen how measure lines—a number line in which the numbers refer to units...
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The Early Years: Recording Data With Young Children
Young children collect data every day. They note who has pink sparkly shoes and find out who will share the ball on the playground. Children will be interested in collecting data if the topic is important to them, such as recording their favorite col...
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Every Day Science: January 2011
This monthly column presents facts and challenges for the science explorer. ...
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Where Does Our Food Come From?
Problem-based learning (PBL) is one approach to teaching science that supports the notion that students construct knowledge within contextual settings, and that critical thinking and application are best fostered within these realistic contexts. In o...
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Recently, a group of fourth graders joined Pintail Partners—a year-long collaborative research effort of scientists, students, classroom teachers, preservice teachers, museum educators, and university professors. Students and teachers followed sate...
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Early Primary Invasion Scientists
“We really need to get the government involved,” said one student, holding his graph up to USDA scientist Steve Seefeldt. Dr. Steve studies methods to control invasive plants, plants that have been introduced to an area by humans and have potenti...