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Editor's Note: Reading Strategies for Science
In recent years, the increased attention to standards and achievement in reading has pushed the pendulum back towards incorporating reading within science content knowledge. Teachers are looking for ways to integrate reading and science, while also ...
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Perspectives: The Synergy of Science and Reading
Elementary teachers today are faced with a lot of pressure to focus their efforts on teaching reading. Often this means that other disciplines, such as science, are squeezed in or (worse) left completely. Is it possible that teaching science can ac...
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Sharks and fishes is both a classic playground game and a lighthearted model to introduce second- to fourth-grade students to the concept of predation, or the relationships between a predator and its prey. This game has been incorporated in a learni...
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Science Shorts: Maximum Capacity
Many adults are more skilled in estimating “how long” and “how far” than in estimating other ways to measure—possibly because of the many instances of linear measurements in our everyday lives. Asking students to think about “how much it...
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Kids who do hands-on science are eager to talk about, write about, and read about their experiences. Those of us who have tried it know that this is true, but it’s still one of the best-kept secrets of the world of education!...
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When Goldilocks finds three bowls of porridge at different temperatures in the three bears’ house, she accurately assess the situation and comes up with one of the most recognizable lines in children’s literature, “This porridge is too hot; thi...
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Activities that Really Measure Up
Linear measurement is more than just learning how to use a ruler. In the early grades, measurement activities develop students’ understanding of the properties of objects as well as what it means to measure objects. Hands-on activities can enable...