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Science 101? What Causes Rainbows?
If you look at a rain cloud with the Sun behind your back, the sunlight and water drops may interact just right, revealing the familiar arc of red, or...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Water Wherever
Whether rain, sleet, or snow, February weather across the country provides students with opportunities to observe the many different ways the water cy...
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AIM for Professional Development
Instructional materials help guide both what and how teachers teach and what and how students learn. Most educators, however, are not aware that the s...
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Home Connections: Thumbs Are Handy Digits
Hold your hand out in front of you and look a it carefully. The human hand is made up of four fingers and one thumb. Have you ever thought about how...
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Teacher Quality: From Policy to Practice
The No Child Left Behind act requires schools to have “qualified teachers” in every classroom by the 2005-2006 school year. This mandate has made ...
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Two university educators and a sixth-grade teacher collaborated to create and implement a five-day engineering unit that incorporated both mathematics...
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Seeking to revitalize a unit on rocks, sand, and soil for first-graders, the authors created new hands-on lessons. These included testing the hardness...
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In this month's section we explore the integration of math into the science curriculum. Meaningful math and science integration can also help teacher...
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Home Connections: Counting Populations
This activity, designed for students to do at home, introduces the concept of population sampling. Students scatter pasta on a grid and count the numb...
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Science 101: How Do Microscopes Work?
Microscopes allow scientists to examine everyday objects in extraordinary ways. They provide high-resolution images that show objects in fine detail....