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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

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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

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Teaching Through Trade Books: What We Do With Ideas

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue focuses on allowing students to expand their thinking around simple objects and ideas while maintaining a science focus....

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

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Classic Lessons 2.0: The Power of Nanoscale

This column shares updated perennial classroom favorites. This month's issue describes activities in which students examine how the ratio of surface area to volume is related to the size of an object, a concept that allows nanoparticles to react quic...

Middle School General Science Mathematics 5E Instructional Materials

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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Purpose of Individual Parts and Processes

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. The activities in this month’s issue have students examine the purposes of different plant or animal parts and then adapt these to solve a human problem. Students also consider ho...

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials