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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 sci...

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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 ...

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Game Time!

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...

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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 in...

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Sense of Wonder Science

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 i...

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What's Hot? What's Not?

When Goldilocks finds three bowls of porridge at different temperatures in the three bears’ house, she accurately assess the situation and comes up ...

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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 th...