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Teaching Teachers: STEPS into Learning
Prospective elementary teachers explore the use of classroom technologies in a university setting. Bringing "real" elementary students to the scienc...
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Analyzing Children’s Science Journals
By creating their own journal pages, children are able to depict their ways of seeing and understanding the science phenomena, constructing or reconst...
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After careful self-examination, the author revamped her soils unit to include a connection to the real world. As a result, students began to understan...
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Beyond Paper and Pencil Assessments
Most paper-and-pencil assessments provide adequate insight into students’ ability and can help effectively guide instruction. A well-designed perfor...
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This interdisciplinary unit weaves art and science together to help students appreciate the importance of recycling. In this engaging activity, studen...
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More Space Shuttle Experiments Take Flight
In the November/December 1997 issue of Science and Children, the article “Space Shuttle Experiments Take Flight” described a unique industry mento...
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As educators, we need to assume responsibility for actively teaching our students the metric system; to fail to do so may limit their participation in...
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“Creative” does not adequately describe the 2,800 entries in the 2000 Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program. Second- through eighth-grade ...