Problem
Solvers to the RescueScience & Children
Problem
Solvers to the Rescue
April 2004
During a two-week summer camp, third and fourth graders participated in a series
of hands-on lessons related to the concepts of mass and volume. Through these
measures, organizers were able to assess students in several areas: scientific
vocabulary; written and oral language skills; cooperative skills; creativity;
conceptual understanding of mass and volume; reading numeric scales; measurement
skills; mathematics skills, such as addition and subtraction; and science-process
skills.
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Was the Great
Pyramid Built with Simple Machines?
October 2004
Recently I challenged my third-grade students to use their imagination and travel with me to Egypt. As we were exploring the Great Pyramid, I encouraged the students to speculate how ancient people could have built such a massive structure without the sophisticated machinery we have at our disposal today.
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Strategy Makeover: K-W-L to T-H-C
September 2004
For the past few decades, the integration of literacy instruction has influenced the teaching of science in the elementary classroom—whether through traditional learning or as part of inquiry and hands-on methods.
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