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Every Day Science: February 2009
This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer. ...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Secrets of Seeds
From a tiny radish seed to a giant coconut, seeds come in a multitude of shapes and sizes. They all share one amazing secret: the potential to grow in...
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Science Conversations for Young Learners
What do you get when you add 20 kindergarten students and a student-led science discussion for the first time? Mass chaos! So, after taking some time ...
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Creating a Schoolyard Mini-Garden
The creation of schoolyard gardens is a growing movement in the United States and around the world (Ballard, Tong, and Usher 1998; Pope 1998; Lewis 20...
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Editor’s Note: Plants and Their Partners
Plants are a ubiquitous piece of the elementary science curriculum. By the time they reach middle school, students have often grown enough bean seeds ...
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Methods and Strategies: Being Deliberate About Concept Development
In order to move students’ thinking from the exploration experiences to concept understanding (and thus the ability to then apply that understanding...
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Editor’s Note: Record Keeping in Science
Records show others what data you have collected and under what conditions. Without records, patterns escape notice. Records also provide accountabili...
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How do you inspire students to keep records like scientists? Share the primary research of real scientists and explicitly teach students how to keep r...
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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my! Digital cameras, young inquisitive scientists, give it a try! In this project, students create an open-ended question...
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Practitioner Research Success!
Practitioner research is an ongoing, reflective process in which inservice teachers (i.e., practitioners) ask questions about their day-to-day teachin...
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The Early Years: What Sort of Feather?
What do feathers have to do with flying? How is a feather like a hair? Do all feathers look the same or serve the same purpose? What does a feather lo...
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Methods and Strategies: Enhancing Science for ELLs
The elementary classroom is changing, and English Language Learners (ELLs) are frequently a part of the mainstream classroom, learning alongside of na...