All Science and Children resources

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Editor's Note: Happy New Year and Welcome to the New Millennium

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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What’s It Like Where You Live? Meeting the Standards through technology-enhanced inquiry

“What’s It Like Where You Live?” is a unit that involves an extended comparison of biomes, defined as regions characterized by distinctive clima...

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Analyzing the Standards: Looking at using and possibly misusing the science standards

Be they from Benchmarks for Science Literacy, the National Science Education Standards, or a state curriculum framework, standards offer educators a c...

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Sowing the Seeds of the Standards: Applying the Standards in the elementary classroom

In this article, the author shares how she developed a unit of study aligned with the Standards that focused on the question “Why do plants have flo...

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Reaching to the Standards

Sharing inquiry-based teaching ideas with preservice and in-service teachers, other colleagues, and parents will only enhance how science is taught to...

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http://World Wide Weather: Involving students in GLOBE's real-life scientific research

Students at Norwood School and more than 8,000 other schools on seven continents (including Antarctica) learn how scientific research works by partici...

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Library of Conservation: Using children's literature to teach the concept of stewardship integrates science and language arts

As we try to achieve the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) and promote general science literacy for young childre...

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Editor's Note: It Is Exciting

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue and introduces NSTA's SciLINKS® connection....

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Problem Solver: Teaching Tropisms

Plants are found in most locations in the world and have the remarkable ability to capture and store energy from sunlight. Without the green plant’s...

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Studying Our Skin: Students learn about skin using the learning-cycle structure

Investigative activities enabling students to explore the many purposes of our skin can create meaningful understanding of its functions. These activi...