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A Watery Whodunit: The Case of the Missing Zooxanthellae
Understanding coral reefs and the threats they face is an essential precondition in preserving them. This activity helps to educate middle school students about coral biology and the problem of coral bleaching. It will inspire students to participat...
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Flooded! An Investigation of Sea-Level Rise in a Changing Climate
Explore how melting ice sheets affect global sea levels. Sea-level rise (SLR) is a rise in the water level of the Earth's oceans. There are two major kinds of ice in the polar regions: sea ice and land ice. Land ice contributes to SLR and sea ice doe...
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Tech Trek: The move to movies: Instruction that engages
Take a look at the latest classroom technology. Learn about the latest movie software for your computer that allows you to create your own instructional materials and students to present their own multimedia projects....
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Editor's Roundtable: Sleuthing with science
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Everyday Engineering: Windmills are going around again
Learn how to create a pinwheel to explore wind power. In this lesson, students will construct a simple pinwheel-type windmill to test the power generated by different designs. ...
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Mythbusters, Musicians, and MP3 Players: A Middle School Sound Study
Create your own speakers for an MP3 player while exploring the science of sound. Review of science notebooks, students' intriguing cabinet designs, and listening to students talk with a musician about the physics of an instrument show that complex co...
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Scope on Safety: Safety in the field
This column shares safety information for your classroom. In this month’s issue the author discusses how to navigate field trips safely through careful preparation and planning. The field trip is priceless and helps make science come alive for stu...
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Who Stole the Doughnuts? An Interdisciplinary Forensics Unit
There was a doughnut thief loose and the students were determined to put their science skills to use to track down the culprit. They would use forensic science to eliminate suspects and identify the thief who stole the doughnuts. School staff take on...
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Scope on the Skies: Changing of the seasons
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. In this month’s issue learn the astronomy behind the changing of the seaons. Students know that we mark the change of seasons with the position of the Sun over certain parts of the Earth. The sp...
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Tried and True: Spooky suspects
This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue presents an option for covering biology content while engaging students in an investigation that highlights the spirit of Halloween. Students are engag...
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Tried and True: Earth’s reflection—Albedo
When viewing objects of different colors, you might notice that some appear brighter than others. This is because light is reflected differently from various surfaces, depending on their physical properties. The word albedo is used to describe how re...
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Dinosaurs in the middle school classroom can be exciting. These extinct reptiles are both an exotic subject and familiar to our students. Because students are inherently interested, dinosaurs can serve as an effective portal for the integration of bi...
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Teacher’s Toolkit: Processing the curriculum through quality questioning
In this inquiry-based project, student-generated questions became the basis for student-directed individual and group projects that provided practice with problem solving, critical thinking, and research skills while digging deeper into the Earth sci...