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Science 101: How can wind cause a bridge to collapse?

First, you might need evidence that wind can cause a bridge to collapse. To see the evidence, put “Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse” into any intern...

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Methods and Strategies: Literacy in the Learning Cycle

Trade books can be used in all phases of the learning cycle to support effective teaching and learning. Romance and Vitale (1992) found that texts and...

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Making Sense of Data

Providing opportunities for students to grapple with collecting and organizing data, struggle with how to represent and communicate ideas emerging fro...

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Natural Resources: For the Birds

More than ticking off a checklist (though that is fun, too), birding fosters an appreciation for nature. The following citizen science opportunities c...

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The Early Years: Safe Smelling

Using the sense of smell, animals find food or a mate and detect the presence of predators; their survival depends on this. In a discussion on using o...

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Problem Solving by Design

In a unique school—university partnership, methods students collaborated with fifth graders to use the engineering design process to build their pro...

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Teaching through Trade Books: Secrets of Flight

The date was December 17, 1903. The place was a windswept beach near Kitty hawk, North Carolina. With Orville Wright at the controls and his brother W...

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Editor’s Note: Creating Problem Solvers

You’ll see that even young children are able to raise questions about the world around them and are willing to seek answers while making careful obs...

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Today’s Authors, Tomorrow’s Scientists

Although not all teachers can invite scientists into classrooms on a regular basis, they can invite them into their students’ worlds through literat...