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Teaching Through Trade Books: Recording Scientific Explorations

Journal Article

Teaching Through Trade Books: Recording Scientific Explorations

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue has students engaging in documentation when they perform investigations and sketch, label, or provide details about their work and findings....

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

Methods and Strategies: Put Your Walls to Work

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Methods and Strategies: Put Your Walls to Work

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses planning and using interactive word walls to support science and reading instruction....

Elementary Earth & Space Science General Science 5E Crosscutting Concepts Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Literacy

Disequilibrium: Edible Candles

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Disequilibrium: Edible Candles

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Students must distinguish between observations and inferences. This month’s discrepant event will refresh your students’ knowledge about the difference between the two....

Middle School General Science 5E Phenomena

Teaching Through Trade Books: Forecasting Hazardous Conditions

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Forecasting Hazardous Conditions

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. Through the use of printed text and video resources, young students can begin to ask questions to learn about different types of weather, whereas older students can start to conside...

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

Earth History Theories: Relative Age Dating Lab With Additions for Mining and Mineral Exploration

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Earth History Theories: Relative Age Dating Lab With Additions for Mining and Mineral Exploration

Dig into this stratigraphy lab to learn how scientists assign ages to specific rock layers....

Middle School Earth & Space Science 5E Instructional Materials

Disequilibrium: Forming Clouds in the Classroom

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Disequilibrium: Forming Clouds in the Classroom

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event allows students to model condensation, the portion of the hydrologic cycle in which water vapor condenses into liquid form and creates a cloud....

Middle School Earth & Space Science 5E Inquiry Phenomena

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