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This article describes an innovative summer camp program that serves middle school Iñupiat and Athabascan students from the interior and the arctic r...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Exploring Ecosystems
This month’s Teaching Through Trade Books column explores the complex relationships of living things to their natural environment and to each other....
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Ladybugs Across the Curriculum
A thematic unit centered in ladybugs offered cross-curricular opportunities for kindergarteners. A series of activities designed to build on individua...
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During a two-week summer camp, third and fourth graders participated in a series of hands-on lessons related to the concepts of mass and volume. Throu...
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Home Connections: Up Goes the Water
Have you ever wondered how water performs its gravity-defying act of moving upward from the roots to the leaves of a plant? How does water get all the...
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The Adventures of the Bucket Buddies
Through Bucket Buddies—a collaborative online project—elementary students from more than 150 schools in 33 states and 6 countries have taken sampl...
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Newton's First Law: Not So Simple After All
With the premise that even "simple" ideas aren't always understood by all, these demonstrations and hands-on activities were conducted to help third-...
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If science is the study of the natural world, how can we avoid physics and chemistry? Our students should understand the connections of the biologica...
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Libros de Ciencias en Español (March 2004)
Spanish-speaking children, like children everywhere, are naturally interested in the world around them. If we are to encourage their understanding an...
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Hey, There's a Forest in that Classroom!
After a prolonged visit to an elementary classroom, this author was inspired to share his reflections on the effective combination of creative scienc...
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Science 101: Are there different types of force and motion?
"Red Rover! Red Rover let Jesse come over!" Young students are familiar with the observable effects of force and motion but may not have considered th...