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Digging Deeper: Designing Solutions

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Digging Deeper: Designing Solutions

This month’s Digging Deeper column for the Next Gen Navigator focuses on the practice of constructing explanations and designing solutions, and specifically the design process that addresses the engineering component of the Next Generation Science ...

By Cindy Workosky

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Classic Lessons 2.0: The Power of Nanoscale

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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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Solar Science: Exploring Sunspots, Seasons, Eclipses, and More

Solar Science offers more than three dozen hands-on, inquiry-based activities on many fascinating aspects of solar astronomy. The activities cover the Sun’s motions, space weather caused by the Sun, the measurement of time and seasons in our daily ...

By Dennis Schatz, Andrew Fraknoi

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Methods and Strategies: The Future of Farming

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Methods and Strategies: The Future of Farming

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes an integrated, multidisciplinary unit that introduces second-grade students to hydroponic gardening....

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Editor's Note: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

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Editor's Note: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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The Early Years: The Building Blocks of Measurement

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The Early Years: The Building Blocks of Measurement

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue shares an activity in which students can learn about position, size, and amount....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Mathematics Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

Science 101: How Do We Use Calculus in Science?

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Science 101: How Do We Use Calculus in Science?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue describes the role of calculus in science classes....

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The Early Years: Shape Exploration: Another Dimension

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The Early Years: Shape Exploration: Another Dimension

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue explores three-dimensional shapes....

Early Childhood Mathematics Physics Crosscutting Concepts Inquiry Teaching Strategies

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