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What’s the Matter With Teaching Children About Matter?

When it comes to learning about solids, liquids, and gases, children often bring interesting yet inaccurate ideas to the topic. When children’s idea...

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Science Shorts: Comparing Liquids

Children experience the physical properties of liquids as they watch raindrops run down a window, observe how insects can walk on water, and notice ho...

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Methods and Strategies: Concept-Focused Teaching

One of the main problems we face in science teaching is that students are learning isolated facts and missing central concepts. For instance, consider...

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The Early Years: Air Is Not Nothing

Children usually begin to understand that a substance called air is all around us after age three, but they don’t grasp that air is matter until age...

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Perspectives: Using Analogies in Elementary Science

Using analogies in science classrooms helps students make connections between everyday life and the concepts we are trying to teach. Analogies help st...

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Editor’s Note: States of Matter

There is a common misunderstanding of chemicals and chemistry. Chemicals are “bad.” Chemists are a nerdy set in the same category as those zany ph...

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Every Day Science: December 2008

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

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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Wonder of Water

Water is an extraordinary substance that we often take for granted. Not only is it what makes our planet uniquely habitable, water is the only substan...

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Science Shorts: Encouraging Visual Literacy

When someone asks you about the solar system or the water cycle, what pops into your mind? Chances are it’s a diagram. Powerful images like these he...