JoinAll Science and Children resources
Journal Article
The Early Years: Communicating About Collections
Children love to collect all kinds of things, from sticks to colorful leaves to trading cards. These objects are special to children because they fou...
Journal Article
Using Biographies in Science Class
One fifth grade teacher recalls the conversations that took place in grad school regarding the nature of science and science as a human endeavor after...
Journal Article
Science 101: Why is Pluto no longer a planet?
On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto was no longer a planet, but rather a "dwarf planet". Our understand...
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: Moving My Body
The human body is amazing! This month's trade books help students understand their growing bones, muscles, and joints while engaging in some investig...
Journal Article
Primary Students and Informational Texts
Anyone who has spent time looking into science books with young children has no doubt experienced the endless questions that the information and visua...
Journal Article
Science Shorts: Seeing is Believing
Many students enjoy the reading about new worlds or imaginary places. The world of microscopy can generate the same kind of excitement and help child...
Journal Article
As elementary students progress from learning to read toward reading to learn, it is vital that they become strategic readers. A strategic reader is ...
Journal Article
Trade Books for Learning: An Author's View
What other ecosystem is as mysterious and compelling as the rain forest and home to innumerable living things that children may never have seen or hea...