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Journal Article
Analogies, or comparisons based on similarities between things that are otherwise dissimilar, can greatly enhance science learning for children. Analogous reasoning “is a central component of human cognition. It is involved in classification and in...
Journal Article
Editor's Note (November/December 2001)
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts about the horror of September 11, 2001, and its immediate effect on children in classrooms and its effect on what should happen in our classrooms now and in the future....
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Gardening in a neglected schoolyard became a catalyst for schoolwide science learning in an urban school in Detroit. Not only did students learn about plant requirements and care for numerous flowers and trees, but they also discovered the motivation...
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Middle school students in a rural Illinois school visualized and learned more about landforms after making a relief model from a topographic map. They achieved a deeper understanding of topography as the representation of the features and configurati...
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Outside Learning: It’s Elementary
Through a partnership with elementary teachers at Main Elementary School in Rome, Georgia, 42 children (one third-grade class and one fourth-grade class) learned how to use newspapers to rebuild slopes on their schoolgrounds that had been eroded by r...
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Centimeters, Millimeters, and Monsters
The activity described in this article reinforces metric skills as preservice teachers design monster clothes for an imaginary monster wedding. The humorous activity also demonstrates how the process skills of estimation and linear measurement can be...