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"Wow, our plastic load flew 540 centimeters! This is so cool!" An interdisciplinary unit on catapults was responsible for the excitement and enthusias...

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You Can Always Tell a Dancer by Her Feet

This discrepant event and the activities that follow examine pressure from a scientific perspective, while applying math to deepen students’ underst...

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Visualizing Science Using the Roundhouse Diagram

At the middle school level, science instruction becomes complicated by difficult vocabulary and complex, often abstract, notions (Jones and McEwin, 19...

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Science in the Summer

It happens every summer in Scott County, Virginia. Kids take time off from their summer vacation to return to the science classroom. They return to bu...

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Editor's Roundtable: Start the new year right

Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Tech Trek: Probing Science

How do you light a fire under a class of 36 thirteen and fourteen-year olds and convince them that they want to learn about physics, chemistry, and ma...

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After the Bell: Life in hot water

The mysteries of the sea offer the allure of adventure for scientists of all ages, and advances in technology supply the tools to explore this frontie...