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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 stud...
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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 ...
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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 instruction...
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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 genera...
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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, an...
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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 car...
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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 forensi...
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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 tha...
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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 whi...
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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 ...
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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 stud...
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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 ...