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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 simulate the actual work of scientists and engineers. This method encourages fourth-grade students to think...
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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 understanding of science and math through an explicit and thoughtful connection in our lessons. ...
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Perspectives: Science and Mathematics—A Natural Connection
Nowhere in our daily lives do we separate tasks into specific subjects before we take action. Yet in schools we continue to teach the various disciplines as separate areas of knowledge. What if school, like the real world, could be more connected? Co...
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In this article, the learning progress of one fifth-grade student is examined with regard to the development of her graph interpretation skills as she participated in the Junior Science Institute (JSI), a two-week, science intensive summer camp in wh...
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Science 101: When drawing graphs from collected data, why don’t you just “connect the dots?”
Using error bars on graphs is a good way to help students see that, within the inherent uncertainty of the measurements due to the instruments used for measurement, the data points do, in fact, lie along the line that represents the linear relation...