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A random sampling of children's books at a small local library reveals frequent errors in how moon phases are depicted.  Below are excerpts from just a few of the books and brief descriptions of the stories.   What do you see wrong with these pictures?  (Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge.)

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This website created by Stevens Institute of Technology and the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) allows students from around the world to work together to determine how average daily temperatures and hours of sunlight change with distance from the equator. Recommended for students in upper elementary, middle, and high school.

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This free article from the NSTA journal Science and Children describes science lessons that incorporate trade books for students in grades K-3 and 4-6, including Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights.

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This free article from the NSTA journal Science and Children describes activities based on trade books that deepen students' conceptual understanding of seasonal change.

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Language arts skills are linked to the learning of science in a literacy-based approach to the study of shadows. Through discussion of literature on shadows and the use of questioning techniques to probe prior knowledge, students in grades K-2 begin to explore scientific concepts and develop and test hypotheses. After studying shadows, recording observations of shadows, and hearing poetry about shadows, students create their own poetic response incorporating their knowledge.

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Friendly illustrations complement this story about Oscar, a curious cat, who learns about light and dark from a moth. The moth teaches Oscar about the rotating earth, the sun and stars, shadows, and interesting facts about light and dark. The facts are interwoven into the story, which relays the information at the simplest level.

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This formative assessment probe assesses student ideas about how seasons vary in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and at the equator.

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This Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears article explores commonly held misconceptions about seasons and day and night. It includes resources for formative assessment and resources for teaching correct science concepts.

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Content knowledge article written for elementary teachers.

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An interactive site that allows you to create custom images of the Earth and Moon.

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This resource guide from the Middle School Portal provides content knowledge, teaching resources, and standards alignment about the cause of Earth’s seasons.

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DragonflyTV is produced by Twin Cities Public Television. This public television program focuses on teaching science. The website contains series overview, games, experiments, schedule, forum, science fair projects and scientist profiles.

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Netorials are interactive online tutorials. Note: You need to subscribe to JCE to access this.

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A JCE Classroom Activity is a hands-on activity that can be done in the classroom or laboratory and/or as a take home project. They are generally intended to be fun or thought-provoking introductions to new ideas or topics, to spark discussion, and to lead to further study and experimentation. In addition, some activities have interdisciplinary applications.

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Collaborative wikis from the NSDL collection:
* Globalwarmingkids.net Features Online Books from NSDL’s Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears eZine
* Ticked-off Science
* NSF Science on “Web TV”
* Looking for Climate Change Impacts in the 21st Century
* Streamlined NSDL.org Browsing
* NSF Special Reports Go In-depth on NSF-supported Science Research Topics

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Online teacher professional development magazine for educators on integrating science and literacy with a focus on the polar regions.

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The goals of Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and mathematics.

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The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) is a Pathways portal of the National Science Digital Library and funded by the National Science Foundation. CSERD aims to help students learn about computational science and to help faculty and teachers incorporate it into the classroom.

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NSDL's blogosphere contains blog postings from NSDL experts in science and math content, educational pedagogy and the latest trends in STEM education

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Volume 1 of 25 field tested formative assessments from NSTA

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