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Science 101: Why are there so many different models of light?

Is light a ray, a wave, or a particle? Yes, yes, and yes. An article in this issue (“The Benefits of Scientific Modeling,” p. 40) discusses the process of scientific modeling, and light is a great example of how modeling works. There are three vi...

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Every Day Science—October 2008

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

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Methods and Strategies: The Crucial Role of the Teacher

In the Perspectives column of this issue, Meredith Park Rogers and Sandra Abel address the importance of teacher questions on student thinking. With school improvement efforts often focused on the curriculum, standards, outcomes, and student work, i...

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The Early Years: Color Investigations

The topic of color can be a springboard to diverse topics including colors in nature, how vision works, the function of color vision in animals, and the properties of light. Learning about color addresses part of the National Science Education Conten...

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The Many Levels of Inquiry

Elementary teachers often struggle with how to design and implement inquiry instruction with their students. For many, just understanding what inquiry is can be difficult—let alone designing activities that support high levels of inquiry. In this a...

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The Early Years: Thinking Space

Space exploration is a high-interest topic for girls and boys. They love to play with space models (toys), pore over space images, talk about what they have seen in the sky or on television, and play astronaut. Use the activities described here to en...

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Guest Editorial: Building Ladders to the Stars

Young children love the stars and planets. They love the idea of leaving the Earth and traveling to the stars, of meeting aliens and exploring unknown worlds. Our goal in elementary school is to build the ladder to the stars and help students up the ...

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Reading, Writing, and Rings!

Reading, Writing, and Rings! was created by a team of elementary teachers, literacy experts, and scientists in order to integrate science and literacy. These free units bring students inside NASA’s Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. The authors—a...

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A Week for Space

Space Week focuses on concepts that enable students to make concrete observations in the early grades (K—2) and move to concepts that help students develop their internet research and writing skills in middle and upper grades (Grades 3—5), and cu...