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Agriculture can play a key role in fostering scientific literacy because it brings important plant and ecosystem concepts into the classroom. Plus, ag...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: How It’s Made
Your students are most likely not knowledgeable about the raw materials, the design processes, and the technology involved in manufacturing the produc...
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The day the Turtle Girls received Montel’s adoption papers, piercing screams ricocheted across the school grounds instantaneously and simultaneously...
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Fourth-grade students at Cutchogue East Elementary School in Cutchogue, New York learned about dependence on natural resources for survival on a visit...
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Boulder Creek runs literally in the backyard of Donnelly Elementary School and happens to be on the EPA list of impaired water bodies. Therefore, a un...
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Science Shorts: Action Figures
With upper-elementary students, using the skeletal system can be a productive first step in learning about the various systems in the human body. Of a...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Can You See Me Now?
“You can’t see me” is a popular childhood taunt, and although young children may not understand that hiding in plain sight does not conceal them...
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WebQuests and the 5E learning cycle are titans of the science classroom. These popular inquiry-based strategies are most often used as separate entiti...
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As an amateur photographer and science teacher, the author shares how to use digital media to enhance the study of habitat and adaptation. The author ...
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Students love a mystery. So what do America’s most majestic bird, a bag of habitat clues, and a soft-shelled egg have in common? This easy-to-do inq...
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Every Day Science: January 2010
This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer....
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Natural Resources: Close to Home
Learning about endangered or threatened species can be an extension of an adaptation or biodiversity lesson. It can also be tied into conversation and...
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Science Shorts: How Symbiosis Creates Diversity
Diversity in habitats on Earth is astounding—whether on land or in the sea—and this is in part due to symbiosis. The lesson described in this arti...