All Science Scope resources

Journal Article

Issues In-Depth: Advancing understanding of drug addiction and treatment

While most school districts utilize a drug abuse resistance curriculum, as science teachers, it is our responsibility to understand the science behind...

Journal Article

Science Sampler: Dr. Vermeij and The Cay

As an interdisciplinary exploration, middle-level students were reading The Cay (1969) by Theodore Taylor in their English classes, honing map skills ...

Journal Article

Tread Lightly: The Truth About Science Friction

During a recent unit on characteristics of animals in different environments, “backyard safari” trips around the schoolyard provided opportunities...

Journal Article

Science Sampler: The Great Fakesperiment

The Great Fakesperiment is based on 10 fictitious experiment examples. These examples included a brief description of what the experiment was about, a...

Journal Article

Science Sampler: Conceptualizing Moon Phases—Helping students learn how to learn

Helping students understand how to learn is an important goal for all subjects and levels of education. While this goal is highly regarded, promoting ...

Journal Article

Extracting the Max From a DNA Extraction

Students of all ages get a thrill out of actually seeing clumps or strands of DNA. The Biotechnology/Bioinformatics Discovery! Project, a professional...

Journal Article

From Aristotle to Today: Making the History and Nature of Science Relevant

Students connect to science in multiple ways. For some students, learning how real people have developed and defended their scientific ideas makes sci...

Journal Article

Green Science: Going locavore—Teaching students about the benefits of food produced locally

A term that is fairly new to the English vernacular is locavore. This term describes anyone who eats food that is grown locally. A locavore diet consi...

Journal Article

Science Sampler: Seeing the world in a garden—Science and art curricula synergy

Duke Farms and Gardens, a 2,700-acre estate in Hillsborough, New Jersey, that includes a large greenhouse, was the site of a middle school field trip ...

Journal Article

Teacher’s Toolkit: How do you know if they’re getting it? Writing assessment items that reveal student understanding

Through a project funded by the National Science Foundation, Horizon Research has been developing assessment items for students (in the process, compi...

Journal Article

Science Sampler: Exploratory Excursions—Documenting slow changes in local parks

While hiking a local conservation property and trying to unwind after a hectic day, it dawned on the author that teaching his students about slow chan...

Journal Article

How Does Mechanical Weathering Change Rocks? Using Reading-to-Learn Strategies to Teach Science Content

Many teachers fall into the pattern of “assumptive teaching” (Herber 1970), assuming that other instructors will teach students the important stra...

Journal Article

Seeking Other Worlds

Is Earth unique in the universe? What is a habitable planet? How abundant are habitable planets? NASA’s Kepler Mission team seeks answers to these q...