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Editor’s Note: Scientists at Work in Earth Science
Working with outside resources almost always strengthens our classrooms. Whether it is taking a trip to a university lab or inviting scientists in, ex...
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Science 101: Why are oceans salty and lakes and rivers not?
For starters, lakes and rivers do contain salt, just not as much as the oceans. A large portion of those salts and minerals washes downstream into oth...
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Science Shorts: Word Wall Work—Supporting Science Talk
One goal of classroom teachers is for students to develop the ability to recognize and understand the vocabulary of science. Classroom teachers also u...
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Science Shorts: About Form and Function
Humans have been classifying organisms since before recorded history, cataloging flora and fauna for our own species’ benefit. Recognition of partic...
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Every Day Science Calendar: March 2009
This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Pondering Popcorn
When most people hear the word, popcorn, they think of a tasty treat enjoyed at the movies. In this month’s column, popcorn takes center stage as st...
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This article describes the experience of a group of first-grade teachers as they tackled the science process of classification, a targeted learning ob...
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Perspectives: Helping Students Understand the Nature of Science
An important goal of science teaching is to help students understand the “nature of science”—what science is and how science works. The nature o...
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On a recent autumn afternoon at Harmony Leland Elementary in Mableton, Georgia, students in a fifth-grade science class investigated the essential pro...
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Libros de Ciencias en Español: A selection of recent science trade books in Spanish (March 2009)
Simple, lively, and easy-to-understand science books in Spanish for the very young are the new reality in the publishing world. In contrast to previou...
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A Land-Use-Planning Simulation Using Google Earth
Google Earth (GE) is proving to be a valuable tool in the science classroom for understanding the environment and making responsible environmental dec...
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Sheltered Instruction Techniques for ELLs
The suggestions described here to adapt instruction for English Language Learners (ELLs) are based on the concept of sheltered instruction, a model of...