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Botzum, Krystalyn; Sparks, Kelly; Smothers, Moriah – Science and Children, 2019
While curriculum designed as project-based learning is not suitable for use with every science standard, this methodology can be used when teaching concepts that naturally contain some flexibility. With small adaptations, teachers can implement these practices into the classroom regardless of the grade level. This article provides a detailed…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Scientific Concepts
Morgan, Emily; Ansberry, Karen – Science and Children, 2016
It's easy to see the connections between science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) in daily life, but they may not be so obvious in the classroom. This month's lessons allow students to explore the components of STEAM through a favorite art supply, the crayon, and a beloved American tradition, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Freehand Drawing, Art
Kennedy, Katheryn – Science and Children, 2020
How can teachers take a traditional field trip and turn it into a component of a rich learning unit? The author found success in connecting a science, technology, and design class to the experiences students engaged in during a recent trip to a zoo. While students were focused on creating an enrichment toy for animals, the true enrichment was in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Recreational Facilities, Field Trips, Grade 1
Andrus, Michelle; Scott, Catherine – Science and Children, 2022
When exploring and introducing sound, students need to understand that there are multiple aspects that work together to create sound. In this single class lesson, students work through an inquiry-based challenge to discover how sound can be manipulated and altered through these elements. By investigating how to manipulate sound, students are able…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Science Education, Lesson Plans, Inquiry
Canipe, Martha – Science and Children, 2019
The "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") and current research in science education call for students to participate in making sense of scientific experiences by building explanations from evidence collected during these experiences. One way this goal can be achieved is through rigorous classroom discussions. In this…
Descriptors: Science Education, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Thorn, Courtney; Rye, James; Walls, Holly – Science and Children, 2017
Photography is a creative art that continues to advance through technological innovations. Smart phones have made photography a nearly daily occurance, and people have become quite accustomed to zooming in and taking photos. This article explains how elementary teachers can harness a much "bigger" technology application--GigaPan--to help…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods, Photography
Mercier, Alison; Metzger, Salem; Blankmann, Dearing; Carlone, Heidi – Science and Children, 2019
Classroom talk is frequently limited, often used to check student comprehension rather than develop thinking. In classrooms with higher numbers of students living in poverty, teachers talk more and students talk less (Lingard, Hayes, and Mills 2003), positioning students as passive learners, which is problematic to developing critical thinking.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Urban Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Story Reading
McGough, Julie; Nyberg, Lisa – Science and Children, 2013
Children do not always see a connection between themselves and other living things. Sometimes they do not even realize that they, too, are animals and represent a link in the food chain. By obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information (Scientific and Engineering Practice #8 in "A Framework for K-12 Science Education" [NRC 2012,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Animals, Biological Sciences
Lange, Alissa A.; Rice, Erin; Howe, Noell; Tian, Qiuju – Science and Children, 2021
In this challenge, the authors wanted to support students' knowledge of light and the ways in which it interacts with other materials through a series of connected learning experiences. These experiences are related to "NGSS standard 1-PS4-3 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer. Plan and conduct investigations…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, STEM Education, Learning Activities
Barnett, Ellen; Pérez, Karina Méndez; Delgado, Rocío – Science and Children, 2021
The United States is home to a culturally and linguistically diverse population of young children. In 2017, 10% of U.S. learners came from homes where languages other than English are spoken. Students who are learning English in addition to their native language(s) have the opportunity to become bilingual or multilingual in school. Thus, rather…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, English Language Learners, Bilingual Students, Multilingualism
Fulco, Charles – Science and Children, 2017
The Great American Total Solar Eclipse (TSE2017) will occur on August 21 this year--the first total solar eclipse in the continental United States since 1979. For many reasons, this is a scientific and educational milestone event of the highest magnitude that should not be missed by any teacher and student whether or not their school is in session…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Astronomy, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods
Park Rogers, Meredith; Hmelo-Silver, Cindy; Nicholas, Celeste; Francis, Dionne Cross; Danish, Joshua – Science and Children, 2023
Representation in science is anything that stands for something else--drawings, pictures, graphs, or other representational forms (Danish et al. 2020). Representations serve as public displays of phenomena that make aspects of those phenomena explicit (Gilbert 2008). They can serve to make the invisible visible, communicate ideas, display…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids, Freehand Drawing
Smith, Mandy McCormick; Trundle, Kathy Cabe – Science and Children, 2014
Children naturally delight in the sounds created with their bodies, including their own shrieks and shrills. On the playground and in the classroom, young children fill the air with stories, mimicked animal and car sounds, word games, and songs. Babies are aware of their basic cries of hunger and more developed babbling. Ears and brains constantly…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Acoustics
Ashbrook, Peggy – Science and Children, 2020
An open-ended assignment to "make something" out of cardboard was a good fit for a half-day camp class of children in kindergarten, first, and second grades where the first goal was to have fun while learning. Given the opportunity to make something of their own design for their own purposes out of cardboard, the children persisted while…
Descriptors: Camps, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Lott, Kimberly; Urbanek-Carney, Sara; Mitchell, April – Science and Children, 2019
Robotics is emerging as an effective strategy for bridging the gap between technology and engineering design in early childhood classrooms (Bers, Seddighin, and Sullivan 2013). Using a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) grant received from the authors' school, they purchased a KIBO-18 set from KinderLab Robotics…
Descriptors: Robotics, STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Programming