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Testing the Waters: The standards saturate schoolwide water theme

In a small rural school in southwest Missouri, coordination of a schoolwide water theme provided students with science learning experiences with a Science-Technology-Society orientation reflecting many of the Standards. Together, teachers incorporate...

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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 climate, plants, and animals. By designing the curriculum around the Standards, the author was able to su...

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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 common foundation upon which to base curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Implicit in the efficac...

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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 flowers?” The standard that applies to this question is the K–4 Life Science Content Standard C. Pe...

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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 and perceived by children. With the integration of many subjects, infusion of high-quality literatu...

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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 participating in the GLOBE program (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment). Involving...

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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 children, we might begin by discussing conservation or stewardship. Children can readily understand the ide...