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Methods and Strategies: Developing Investigative Skills Purposefully
Members of a team of educators and university students participating in the project, Pittsburgh Partnership for Energizing Science in Urban Schools, a...
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Every Day Science Calendar—November 2007
This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer. ...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Words to the Wild
A notebook is perhaps the single most important piece of equipment a naturalist takes into the field. But notebooks are not only for use by field scie...
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Thomas Locker’s book about nature entitled Water Dance (1997) provides the basis for this interdisciplinary project on Earth’s water cycles. Thr...
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Peering through a thematic science lens—elementary students embarked on a one-week study of ants during a month-long summer school program. This int...
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Science 101: How is reading science books different from reading other kinds of books?
A good history book tells a story, much like a good novel. In reading those stories, one is able to read through the text relatively quickly and still...
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Reinvigorating Science Journals
Science-themed books are wonderful tools for emphasizing the importance of observation and journaling. They can also be used to effectively promote li...
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Children possess a genuine curiosity for exploring the natural world around them. One third grade teacher capitalized on this inherent trait by leadin...
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Collecting data and analyzing the results of experiments is difficult for children. The authors found a surprising way to help their third graders mak...
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In the “Solar Sprint” activity, students design, test, and race a solar-powered car built with Legos. The use of ratios is incorporated to simulat...
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Every Day Science Calendar—October 2007
This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer. ...
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Editor’s Note: Science and Math Go Together Like…
The connections of mathematics and science are both basic and complex. As the articles in this month’s issue attest, we can deepen student understan...