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Every Day Science Calendar—January 2007
This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer....
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Teaching through Trade Books: Rocking Around the Rock Cycle
“What type of rock is this?” is a common question spoken by all children at some point in their young lives. Many students have rocks of all shape...
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Drawing on Students' Knowledge
Effective instruction requires continual assessment of student understanding to identify and redirect misconceptions. This is particularly important w...
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Science 101: What causes the seasons?
In this article, we learn about the relationship between the Earth and the sun at certain times of the year. Certain myths are broken, and we get a r...
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Each year, first graders at Kensington Parkwood Elementary School in Kensington, Maryland, look forward to Fabulous Weather Day. After studying weathe...
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Student interest in science has been amplified at one elementary school. During a recent unit on sound, students in a fourth-grade class participated ...
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When most of us think about how we learned science, we generally remember it as a textbook-based affair, with experiments set-up in advance by a teach...