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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...
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Methods and Strategies: Science Homework Overhaul
Do your students groan when you announce a homework assignment? Do they have so much math and language arts homework that they just don’t have time ...
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Science Shorts: Nothing But Blue Skies
Why is the sky blue? Why are sunsets orange and red? These are some of children’s favorite questions to ask, but answering them at a level appropria...
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One third grade teacher reflects on her students living by the ocean and their frequent jaunts to the beaches where expansive slabs of granite jut out...
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Science 101: Is it possible to turn coal into diamonds?
How cool would it be to be Lois Lane? Anytime she wants a diamond, she just has Superman use his super strength to squeeze a lump of coal. But is this...
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Soil is all around us, in fact there is so much of it that we often don’t think of it as a valuable natural resource, and we might even take it for ...
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Intrigued by the idea of offering creative ways to reinforce both fine-motor skills and early mathematics skills as well as being eager to work with y...
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Editor's Note: Geology Is Fundamental (December 2006)
Geology is fundamental. The usual triad of sciences (chemistry, physics, and biology) is also clearly important. Not much can be explained without phy...