All Science and Children resources

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Primary Paleontologists: Students "dig in" to excavate buried "fossils"

Prior to the students' dig, each second-grade teacher digs and models the role of an excavation expert in the same square of the dig site. This simula...

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Exploring Experimental Design: Using hands-on activities to learn about experimental design

This article presents the basic concepts of experimental design through a series of hands-on activities. This allowed students to focus on one or two...

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Science and Technology: A Great Combination

As educators meet the challenge of teaching a new generation of technologically literate and curious children, opportunities for classroom inquiry is ...

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Editor's Note: Exciting Involvement

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

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Weather Detectives: Searching for Cool Clues

It is a well-kept secret that weather is nature's way of redistributing energy and converting it to heat. There are many opportunities to teach these ...

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Thought for Food: Students learn science with healthy eating

This article features activities used in a schoolwide science unit on nutrition. ...

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Web of Life Connections; Learning about the interdependence of life

This article offers suggestions for helping students understand the interdependence of life through firsthand experiences, by focusing on something fa...