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Listserv Roundup: Finding and Saving Earth Science Resources
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This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. Learn about Earth science resources on NSTA e-mail listservs where there is an abundance of teacher-…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Focusing on Earth’s Features
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue shows that allowing students to use both photographs and information presented through technology helps them begin to construct an…
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Visualizing the Earth and Moon Relationship via Scaled Drawings
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Students’ difficulties with accurately conceptualizing the relationships among the Earth, Moon, and Sun are well documented. Any teacher who has seen the film A Private Universe (Schneps and Sadler 1988) will remember…
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Idea Bank - Education and Research: Testing Hypotheses (EARTH)
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) have created an educational outreach program titled "Education and Research: Testing Hypotheses (EARTH)," which will serve as a…
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Be a Citizen Scientist! Celebrate Earth Science Week 2006
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During Earth Science Week (October 8-14, 2006), millions of citizen scientists world-wide sampled groundwater, monitored weather, toured quarries, explored caves, prepared competition projects, and visited museums and…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Earth's Changing Surface
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue shows how to help children understand the crosscutting concept Stability and Change by looking at changes to the Earth's surface over…
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Science 101: What Are the Earth's Heating and Cooling Mechanisms?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses some of the mechanisms of Earth that are related to global warming and climate change.
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Science 101: What Does the Sun Send to the Earth?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses electromagnetic waves.
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Cookie Tectonics: An Introduction to Earth Hazards and Tectonic Fundamentals
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Use a common treat to review basic Earth concepts and assess students' knowledge.
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Including Students in a Model of the Earth, Moon, and Sun System
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Model the phases of the Moon and other astronomy concepts with this hands-on approach that will keep students on their toes.
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Evidence for Evolution: How old are the Earth, the Galaxy, and the Universe?
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This article provides a brief review of the scientific evidence for the age of the Earth, Solar System, Galaxy, and Universe.
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A Land-Use-Planning Simulation Using Google Earth
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Google Earth (GE) is proving to be a valuable tool in the science classroom for understanding the environment and making responsible environmental decisions (Bodzin 2008). GE provides learners with a dynamic mapping…
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