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Direct linkArgus, Lindsy – Science Scope, 2012
The author created a lesson in which students successfully practiced reading comprehension skills while developing an understanding of earthquakes. Not only did this lesson help students gain an understanding of the impact of earthquakes, a subject embedded into Missouri's eighth-grade science curriculum, but it also addresses one of the new…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reading Comprehension, State Standards, Seismology
Gregerson, Jessica – Science Scope, 2011
In this inquiry-based project, student-generated questions became the basis for student-directed individual and group projects that provided practice with problem solving, critical thinking, and research skills while digging deeper into the Earth science curriculum. The author used her students' high-level questions to provide relevance,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Motivation, Earth Science, Research Skills
Sampson, Victor; Grooms, Jonathon – Science Scope, 2009
This article describes an instructional model that science teachers can use to promote and support student engagement in scientific argumentation. This model is called the evaluate-alternatives instructional model and it is grounded in current research on argumentation in science education (e.g., Berland and Reiser 2009; McNeill and Krajcik 2006;…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Science Teachers, Science Curriculum, Teaching Models
Peer reviewedMarturano, Arlene – Science Scope, 2000
Suggests gardening to help middle school students improve their problem solving and mental abilities. Focuses on the benefits of having a school nutrition garden, and indicates that students can learn about the importance of a healthy diet and share their peers' cultural heritage by growing ethnic foods. Recommends an animal garden to observe…
Descriptors: Birds, Cultural Background, Dietetics, Ethnicity
Peer reviewedFischer, Daniel – Science Scope, 1998
Provides details of a middle school science program that involves students in real fieldwork on a topic of their choice. Focuses on student research in estuary and seashore ecosystems. Includes proposal format and scoring rubric. (DDR)
Descriptors: Biology, Environmental Education, Estuaries, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKlinger, Art – Science Scope, 1998
Describes an educational program that asks students to attempt to prove that the earth is spherical and that it rotates. Presents tips to pique student interest and charts related to sensing the spin, nonrotation notions, flat earth fallacies, evidence that the earth is spherical and rotates, and the role of watersheds in proving that the earth…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Earth Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Hands on Science
Peer reviewedTikhomirova, Svetlana – Science Scope, 1993
Describes a Russian approach of using literature to make physics instruction more interesting and attractive to students. (PR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
