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Botanical Heart Throbs: Heart Rate in Blackworms

Explore human-body systems with a series of hands-on neuroscience investigations....

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Using Professional Noticing to Address Middle Level Students' Alternative Conceptions of Lunar Phases

Discover how you can actively notice when students' explanations of phenomena differ from the accepted scientific explanation....

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Exploring the Science of Less-Familiar Forms of Animal "Flight"

Examine the physics and adaptive changes that allow animals to fall, parachute, and glide....

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Answers to Teachers' Questions About the Next Generation Science Standards

Use this valuable instructional tool to differentiate instruction for all students....

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Editor's Roundtable: Three-Dimensional Teaching

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

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Guest Editorial: Leading Learning: Teachers as Leaders and the Language of the NGSS

This article examines the language challenges that science teachers face when confronted with the NGSS reforms....

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Everyday Engineering: Keeping It Together—Fascinating Fasteners

This column provides an inside look at the marvels of engineering in everyday life. In this 5E learning-cycle lesson, students will construct and test...

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Teacher's Toolkit: A Visual Representation of Three-Dimensional Learning: A Tool for Evaluating Curriculum

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue focuses on demonstrating the power of visual...

Middle School General Science Life Science Assessment Curriculum Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

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Scope on Safety: Detoxing the Lab

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses how to reduce the risk when working with toxic substances....

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Scope on the Skies: Pulling Together an Understanding of the Earth–Moon System

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the gravitational pull that exists between the Earth and our Moon...