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  • The Early Years: The Matter of Melting

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    This month's Early Years column reveals how establishing a shared language through experiences can help young students and teachers exchange ideas and information about science concepts. The experiences that occur as…

  • The Early Years: An Invertebrate Garden

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    For farmers and gardeners, slugs and snails may be serious pests that will limit the amount of harvest, but for a child, they represent a world to be explored. To teachers, however, invertebrates are tools for…

  • The Early Years: A Sense of Place

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    This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this month’s issue students learn to use the school yard as a model.

  • The Early Years: Birds in Winter

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    Science and art go hand-in-hand, as scientists make art to share their observations. Two scientists who are widely known first as artists are Leonardo de Vinci, anatomist and inventor, and Beatrix Potter, mycologist.…

  • Editor’s Note: A Year of Inquiry

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    The importance of developing the abilities to conduct and understand inquiry cannot be overstated. Acquisition of inquiry strategies will prepare students to encounter and solve problems and questions throughout their…

  • The Early Years: A Reason to Write

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    Children love seeing their work and photos of themselves at work. Make this an opportunity for an early literacy experience by creating a book about a classroom investigation. Document each step of the process with…

  • The Early Years: Building With Sand

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    Children playing in damp sand invariably try to make a tower or a tunnel. By providing experiences with a variety of materials, alone and together, teachers set up the conditions for children to learn through their…

  • The Early Years: Water Works

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    “You worked hard digging that hole,” “You really had to work to push that wagon,” and “Climbing on the monkey bars is hard work,” are phrases commonly heard on the playground. Children love to try difficult physical…

  • The Early Years: Animal Adventures

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    Children can have a new favorite animal every week or even every hour. The more familiar the children become with an animal, the more they will be able to understand how its body form and behavior allow it to survive.…

  • The Early Years: The Story of Corn

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    Corn is an interesting subject for young children to explore because it grows ears in many forms, the seeds are easy to see and handle, and it is familiar to most children in one food product or another. Therefore,…

  • The Early Years: Summer Science

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    This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses summer science notebooks.

  • The Early Years: Young Questioners

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    Children are often described as natural scientists and their curiosity as a basic human trait. They amaze adults with perceptive questions and extended explorations of the environment. Asking questions is part of the…

  • The Early Years: Color Investigations

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    The topic of color can be a springboard to diverse topics including colors in nature, how vision works, the function of color vision in animals, and the properties of light. Learning about color addresses part of the…

  • Two-Year Community: Developing Scientists: A Multiyear Research Experience at a Two-Year College

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    This article describes an authentic research experience for undergraduates that mimics a real undergraduate research experience.

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