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Editor's Note: Happy New Year to All! (January 2003)
In this issue we are highlighting science activities that go beyond the classroom and involve parents and folks in the community with elementary school boys and girls. Most parents, grandparents, neighbors, and professionals are eager to be involved ...
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Are you challenged to involve parents in your school’s science curriculum? Ridgecrest Elementary School in Hyattsville, Maryland, tackled that issue and found a successful solution in an exciting program called “Playtime Is Science” (Sprung, Fr...
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This university-sponsored educational family event inspired teacher candidates, students, and parents by demonstrating numerous scientific activities, showing how opportunities for science learning go “beyond homework.” Emphasis is on the plannin...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Snowflake Science
This month's featured trade book, Snowflake Bentley, introduces students to a self-made scientist who spent his life taking pictures of snowflakes. Background information and snow activities for different age groups are included....
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The Home Zone: Get Familiar with Fingerprints
Welcome to The Home Zone, Science and Children’s new column that presents simple everyday science activities for children and their families to do together. We hope you’ll find the activities a fun and easy way to spend quality time with your chi...
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While models and analogies are integral to both the learning and practice of science, their use is complex and potentially troublesome. Misconceptions can arise when parts of a model are misleading, missing, or misapplied. Students begin to look crit...