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Using Packrat Midden Models to Investigate Climate Variability

Explore past climates with these unique natural archives....

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The Seabird Mystery Lesson: Integrating Science Inquiry and Science Literacy

Can your students explain why auklets are dying?...

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A Gassy World: A Climate Change Investigation

Will warming oceans be better or worse at absorbing CO2?...

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Integrating Technology: Lens on Climate Change: Using Place-Based Learning to Explore Climate Change Effects

This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article describes a student-driven approach to learning and communicating about climate change, in which students create a short, document...

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From the Editor's Desk: Tackling the Complex Issue of Climate Change

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

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Citizen Science: Be a Bat Detective!

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Students classify bat calls by listening to short clips of sound recordings online....

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Disequilibrium: Measuring Our Rising Sea Levels

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Does the melting Antarctica ice cause sea levels to rise more than melting Arctic ice? This month’s discrepant event answers this question....

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Listserv Roundup: Growth Mindset in the Classroom

This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. This month's column provides tips that can help teachers promote a community of growth mindset learners in the classroom....

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Science For All: Self-Improvement Through Goal Setting

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. In September's column, the authors discussed the importance of grit and how you can help your students become grittier throughout the school year. In addition to the suggestions we gave...

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Teacher to Teacher: Vote, Discuss, Revote: A Formative Assessment Classroom Technique

This column provides practical advice from your peers. Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques, or FACTS, allow teachers to assess student thinking. This article discusses the Vote-Discuss-Revote (VDR) FACT. VDR provides students with a question o...

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Scope on the Skies: A Candle in Space

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the challenges of measuring distances to celestial objects....