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Perspectives: Making Time for Science Talk
Cognitive scientists (Donovan and Bransford 2005) conclude that when teachers “simply give students the knowledge to incorporate, the practice and s...
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Teaching through Trade Books: Into the Woods
In today’s electronic age of video games and mp3 players, children are not spending as much time outdoors as past generations did. Many fear that as...
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A five-week study taught students how to write a field guide that identified the plants in a small wooded area they passed through on their way to the...
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Most children know they should not pollute but have never considered why. One elementary school teacher creates a lesson for third- through fifth-grad...
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Methods and Strategies: The Teaching-With-Analogies Model
Teachers often use analogies and are unaware of it—they are using them automatically. Whenever they begin an explanation with “It’s just like…...
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It’s no secret that many school programs don’t give children enough opportunity to explore the natural world—i.e., to “mess about” and to ha...
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The WebQuest is a four-step process integrated at appropriate points in the Animal Studies unit. Through the WebQuest, students create a series of hab...
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Editor's Note: Looking at Environmental Education
Science education must prepare students to make informed personal and political decisions. Many of those decisions will revolve around issues of the ...
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The Early Years: The Sun's Energy
Understanding the connection between the Sun’s energy and sustaining life is difficult for preschoolers, but learning about these concepts through ...
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Science Shorts: Energy in Motion
Children experience forces at work while on the playground, in gymnasiums, and in toy stores. Scooters, baseball bats, basketballs, and jump ropes all...
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Maria lifts up a book from the table. Dietre eats cereal for breakfast. Akisha winds up a toy robot. Jacob puts batteries in a flashlight. These seemi...
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In sixth grade, students understand that Earth gets visible light from the Sun, but students may also believe the Earth gets heat from the Sun. This ...
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Perspectives: Assessing for Science Learning
Often the word assessment conjures up the notion of tests or quizzes that occur at the end of a lesson or a unit. These summative assessments take pla...
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Libros de Ciencias en Espanol (2007)
From eye-catching introductions to planets, animals, food, and the senses for the very young, to little-known aspects of dinosaurs, to the importance...
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Every Day Science Calendar: March 2007
This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer. ...