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Methods and Strategies: The Home Connection

Teachers can help students gain experience in the natural world by taking students outside, but such experiences usually have tight time constraints d...

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 (Books published in 2008)

Today’s classrooms have no real walls! Students explore the world on field trips, during virtual journeys on the world wide web, and through the boo...

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Science 101: What makes a curveball curve?

Ah, springtime, and young people’s thoughts turn to … baseball, of course. But this column is not about how to throw a curveball, so you’ll have...

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Science 101: Do plants communicate?

Oh yes. Sometimes their conversation is flowery, sometimes not. Plants with problems try to converse and get to the root of the problem, but if not, t...

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Plants on the Move

When it comes to directly interacting with and doing experiments with organisms, plants have some distinct advantages over animals. Their diversity an...

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Science Shorts: Hypothesis Testing—It’s Okay to Be Wrong

Students often seek affirmation from their teachers about their thinking and can be embarrassed at the thought of being “wrong.” In science, we wa...

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From Cookbook to Experimental Design

Developing expertise, whether from cook to chef or from student to scientist, occurs over time and requires encouragement, guidance, and support. One ...

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Worms Eat School Lunch Too?

In the process of discovering the extraordinary creature commonly known as a red wiggler worm—or as scientists would identify it, Eisenia fetida, fi...

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The Early Years: Bring On Spring—Planting Peas

Growing peas helps children who grow food at home make a connection between school and home by sharing their experience, and those who have never seen...