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Science 101: Why Aren’t There Magnetic Charges?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses electricity and magnetism....
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This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue presents a new challenge and answers the Bouncing Ball challenge from ...
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Engineering Encounters: Chemical Reaction Vehicles
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this issue a STEM project takes off in fifth-grade classrooms....
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Digging Deeper: Peeling Back the Practices: What Did High School Students Think?
One of the big shifts in the NGSS is the integration of Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) with Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs) and Science and Engineering P...
By Cindy Workosky
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Engineering: From Trial-and-Error to NGSS-Aligned
Four years ago, when the other seventh-grade science teacher and I started redesigning our curriculum for the NGSS, we knew we would have to include e...
By Cindy Workosky
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As our first-grade class was returning to our classroom after recess, a learner directed our attention to our school’s newest retaining wall. He ask...
By Cindy Workosky
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The Engineering Design Process: A Middle School Approach
To support the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Middle School Engineering Design, we have three goals for our students: to define problems acc...
By Cindy Workosky
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Science 102: This Month’s Task: Bouncy Ball
This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue presents a new challenge and answers the Area of a Circle Conundrum ch...
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Teaching Teachers: Inquiry in Inclusive Preschools
This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. Preparing preservice teachers to plan and implement physical science learnin...
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Engineering Encounters: The Paper Airplane Challenge
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month's issue students learn about variables and trials while desi...