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Journal Article
If we want to encourage children to enter into scientific fields in the future, we need to give them a helping hand while they are most open-minded and curious. In this article, the author shares anecdotal stories from the scientific community that r...
Journal Article
Most teachers and parents will agree: Children are natural inventors. They also enjoy building things with such manipulatives as Legos. Robotics was the route to dynamic, problem-based learning for fourth- and fifth-grade students at Emma Sherman Ele...
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
Journal Article
This article describes an activity in which upper elementary students created “stream profiles” of an imaginary aquatic environment using science, mathematics, and simple materials. After the simulation, they applied what they learned during a fi...
Journal Article
Awardees from the 2002 Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program relate the stories behind their inventions. The article also lists the 2002 regional awardees including, the name of the invention; the inventor; the inventor’s school and its loc...
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Earth Odyssey is an outreach program for grades four to six developed by a Los Angeles museum. Museum instructors work with classrooms over the course of one month to conduct field observations of living things in the schoolyard and in a local park. ...
Journal Article
Assessing Students’ Ideas About Plants
This article contains an interview protocol that will help you gather information about your elementary students’ ideas related to plants. By implementing the protocol, you will be able to discover what kinds of organisms your students think are pl...