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Wars are fought over it. The price of it can stir fear, even despair, among us. Energy. Energy drives our universe. Our use of certain types of energy...
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Coffee Can Speakers: Amazing Energy Transformers
We live with a dizzying array of electronic devices—cell phones, mp3 players, and DVD players to name a few. Students can operate them with amazing...
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Methods and Strategies: "Inquirize" Your Teaching
The basic elements of inquiry include: ask a question, conduct an investigation, make observations and collect data, use data to develop an explanatio...
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Teaching through Trade Books: If You Build It...
From the youngest ages children construct buildings, bridges, towers, and anything else that comes to mind using a variety of materials. This month�...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Science Measures Up
Can you measure a dog’s tail in dog biscuits? Can you measure a desk without a ruler? Which is better: measuring a room in paces or meters? Which sy...
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Every Day Science Calendar: February 2007
This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer. ...
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Methods and Strategies: Alternative Assessments for English Language Learners
English Language Learners (ELL) are capable of high levels of conceptual understanding related to science. However, traditional means of assessment do...
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A group of kindergarteners and fellow first graders turned one school hallway into a forest as they endeavored to learn about animals and science inqu...
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Simple Machine Science Centers
One solution to the common challenge of teaching physical science for teachers who are not confident with the subject matter or comfortable with the m...
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Science 101: How much overlap is there across science disciplines?
You often will hear that physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science have a lot in common. In fact, many science curriculum programs stress how the...
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One of the shortcomings in most efforts to integrate art and science is that many of us have a shallow understanding of art, which inevitably leads to...
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Inquiring Minds Do Want to Know
A group of pre-service students assigned to fifth graders with an interest in tornadoes worked over the course of several classes to present a series ...
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Science and art are both creative ways of understanding the world and representing what we have come to know about it. The concrete, tangible aspects ...