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Rocketing into Adaptive Inquiry
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To ensure that each student achieves success, teachers can tailor activities with students’ strengths and weaknesses in mind using the process of adaptive inquiry. Adaptive inquiry is the product of the synergistic…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Looking Good: Structural Adaptations and Inherited Traits
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature.
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Engineering Encounters: Engineering Adaptations
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Many of the science investigations we use in our classrooms already can be adapted to engage students in engineering design.
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From feet to color to teeth, animals have many special structures that help them survive. These physical characteristics help them move, find food, and protect themselves. Animal Adaptations allows children to use their…
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Editor’s Note: Approaching Adaptation
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As students approach adaptations lessons, keep in mind that according to research, most lower-elementary school students are still forming a basic understanding of how animals survive in their environments. For example…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Adaptations for Survival
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue has students experience nature by examining how seeds are transported from one location to another or consider what it takes for…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Antarctic Adaptations
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Penguins! This month’s Teaching Through Trade Books column celebrates those tuxedo-clad birds that have come to symbolize winter and provides students with the opportunity to investigate adaptations that help penguins…
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Adapting to the Deep Sea: A Fun Activity with Bioluminescence
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The deepest parts of the oceans are currently the focus of many new discoveries in both the physical and biological sciences. Middle school students find the deep sea fascinating and especially seem to enjoy its…
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