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Nature in the City: Outdoor projects for urban schools
This article provides three, inquiry-based activities that help urban students learn about nature—observing coloration patterns of pigeons, measurin...
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Editor's Note: Stand Up and Be Counted
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Imagine studying the history and technology of the Civil War through photographs taken at that time and learning about the chemistry and mathematics o...
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Have you ever wondered how thunderstorms actually form? Offering an age-appropriate explanation can be quite challenging because thunderstorms are ver...
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Get Connected to Science: The possibilities abound with today's high-tech classroom resources
Too often classroom computers are used for word processing or drill and practice software. However, these uses don’t begin to tap into the rewards o...
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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In order to best teach fourth-grade students about rocks, the author used an empowering metaphor—rocks as stories from the past—that was applied t...
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Many poems for children published in the past few decades focus on aspects of environmental study. Combining these newer contributions with poetry pub...
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Natural Cycles: Coming Full Circle—Using natural cycles to teach elementary science objectives
Native Americans commonly use a circle in their art and stories to represent the fact that matter is conserved. From generation to generation, Native ...