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Each year, first graders at Kensington Parkwood Elementary School in Kensington, Maryland, look forward to Fabulous Weather Day. After studying weather for three months, we celebrate what we have learned and stretch our thinking further into the weat...
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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 in a series of dynamic sound learning centers followed by a dramatic capstone event— an exploratio...
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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 teacher. We tend to think of science as a body of facts to be memorized and of inquiry as a set of teache...
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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 for science homework? Does the homework you give help students to better understand key science conc...
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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 appropriate for primary students’ level of understanding can be tricky, even for veteran teachers. In order...
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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 into the sea. During the summer, they run along the rocks and explore the cracks and crevices. Thro...
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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 really possible? Using a high enough temperature and enough pressure, can you turn coal into diamon...
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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 granted! We rely on its productivity for our food and fiber and its firmness to support our building...
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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 young students, a group of five preservice teachers and their professor arranged to try a few activit...
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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 physics, for example. But geology, the history of Earth, is an application of these sciences that deser...