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The Early Years: Adding Up the Rain

Journal Article

The Early Years: Adding Up the Rain

Having your class measure and record the amount of precipitation that falls daily is a job young children can do as part of learning about measurement...

Every Day Science Calendar: August 2009

Journal Article

Every Day Science Calendar: August 2009

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

YouTube in the Science Classroom

Journal Article

YouTube in the Science Classroom

YouTube makes it possible for teachers to capitalize on children’s insatiable appetite for visually stimulating learning. Some of these videos attai...

Methods and Strategies: Avoiding the Big Scare

Journal Article

Methods and Strategies: Avoiding the Big Scare

Teaching environmental issues to K–12 students is an important part of a well-rounded science education. Teaching such issues isn’t easy because s...

Every Day Science Calendar (April 2009)

Journal Article

Every Day Science Calendar (April 2009)

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

Partners in Learning

Journal Article

Partners in Learning

What happens when children and scientists learn together? A partnership is formed, that’s what! This article describes how a university scientist an...

Inspiring Future Scientists

Journal Article

Inspiring Future Scientists

In an integrated science/language arts/technology unit called “How Scientists Learn,” students researched famous scientists from the past and cutt...

Every Day Science Calendar (May 2009)

Journal Article

Every Day Science Calendar (May 2009)

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

Volcanoes on the Beach?

Journal Article

Volcanoes on the Beach?

How could a rock formed by volcanic activity get to this shoreline, surrounded by sedimentary rocks? That was the question a group of third-grade stud...

The Artistic Oceanographer Program

Journal Article

The Artistic Oceanographer Program

The Artistic Oceanographer Program (AOP) was designed to engage elementary school students in ocean sciences and to illustrate basic fifth-grade scien...

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