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Journal Article

Editor’s Roundtable: We’ve come a long way from the four elements

As our technology advanced, so has the sophistication of our classification systems. Over time, we’ve moved from the ancient Greeks’ four elements to the periodic table, and from classifying animals by the way they move to comparisons of their DN...

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Tried and True: Thinking spatially—taking observation, classification, and communication skills to a higher level of reasoning

When students classify, they embark on observing and identifying the properties of the object, and then they categorize, sort, group, organize, arrange, or grade objects into smaller and similar clusters or divisions. Therefore, observing and classif...

Journal Article

Inductive and Deductive Science Thinking: A Model for Lesson Development

Middle school students make great learning gains when they participate in lessons that invite them to practice their developing scientific reasoning skills; however, designing developmentally appropriate, clear, and structured lessons about scientifi...

Journal Article

Scope on the Skies: The new Milky Way galaxy

When students are asked about the Milky Way galaxy and where our solar system is located, most will describe it as a spiral-shaped galaxy with the Sun located on one of the spiral arms. While this is essentially correct, data obtained with the Spitze...