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Teaching Through Trade Books: Seeing Stars
The winter months are a great time to make observations of several familiar constellations. While there’s no scientific reason to “know” the con...
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Properties are “hot,” not in terms of real estate but in science class. Here, the editor highlights the feature articles related to this month’s...
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Many teachers and students have experienced the classic pet rock experiment in conjunction with a geology unit. A teacher has students bring in a “p...
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Perspectives: Explaining Science
We often think of science as exploration and experiment. However, classrooms that portray only this view of science fail to capture an essential featu...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: A Closer Look
Give a child a hand lens or a microscope and they quickly become fascinated with the hidden worlds these tools reveal. The lessons in this month’s c...
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Science Shorts: Stretched to the Limit
Children need to explore as many different materials as possible in order to make sense of their world. Understanding how materials behave in their na...
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Science 101: Why do we classify things in science?
Each year, in thousands of classrooms across the country, students classify animals, rocks, and other things as part of their science studies. Each ye...
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Sponsored by NASA and the JASON Education Foundation, the remote Sensing Earth Science Teacher Education Program (RSESTeP) trains teachers to use stat...