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Science and Children is an award-winning, peer-reviewed, practitioners' journal for pre-K–grade 5 teachers, university faculty responsible for teacher preparation, and state and district science supervisors and leaders. We seek manuscripts that detail innovative, classroom-tested early childhood and elementary school science activities and strategies that demonstrate current research regarding the teaching and learning of science as in the Framework for K–12 Science Education.

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