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Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: The Science and Technology of Sound
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue explores questions surrounding the topic of sound....
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: Watching the Wind
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue has books that help children focus on what the wind can do s...
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: Flying Machines
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue uses two fiction trade books to inspire students to design a...
NSTA Press Book
Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Literacy, Grades 3–5
Winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award from PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers! ...
By Jessica Fries-Gaither, Terry Shiverdecker
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about relative distance. The probe is designed to find out if students can appl...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about eclipse phenomena. The probe is designed to determine if students have a men...
Book Chapter
How Long Is a Day on the Moon?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the day-night cycle on the Moon. The probe is designed to find out if stude...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s gravity. The probe is designed to find out how students think g...
Book Chapter
Using a model, learners explore time zones and what causes day and night and how time zones change. Learners observed the position of the Sun in the s...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about living things. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the flow of energy in a trophic relationship that children are most familia...