All Science and Children resources

Journal Article

Learning about what inferences are, and what a good inference is, will help students become more scientifically literate and better understand the nat...

Journal Article

The Early Years: Developing Observation Skills

We typically know children are learning when they are able to make sense of an object’s materials or a situation that was previously a bit mysteriou...

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Formative Assessment Probes: “More A – More B” Rule

Early-formed preconceptions can be explained by one of the intuitive rules identified by Stavy and Tirosh (2000) called More A – More B. By starting...

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Dinocenters

Like peanut butter and jelly, kindergarteners and dinosaurs go well together. Therefore, the authors developed a cross-curricular unit based on the bo...

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Every Day Science Calendar: October 2010

This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer....

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Dramatic Science

The setting: the science classroom. The characters: you and your students. The scene: Your students acting out scientific discoveries, modeling a frog...

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Nature’s Palette

Flower petals, acorn hats, exoskeletons of beetles, and lichens are just a few of the objects students may find in a surprising array of vivid colors....