Looking for ways to help your students understand the history and nature of science? Or do you need some new teaching strategies to show your students how to write to learn science? NSTA's award-winning K-12 journals focus on both of these themes for the months of November and December. College science professors can learn innovative teaching strategies and the latest news in a publication designed especially for them.

Please note that some articles listed below are exclusively for NSTA members. For a limited time, nonmembers can access articles marked, "Free to all."

Writing to Learn Science is the focus of the November/December issue of Science and Children, the Association's journal for elementary educators. The articles listed below will enable you to share some of the ways your fellow teachers are using student notebooks - and the informative writings they contain - as an essential component of science instruction.

• Making Things Visible (Free to all)
• Student-Centered Notebooks
• Project Notebook
• The Art of Reviewing Science Journals

Science Scope, NSTA's journal for middle level teachers, focuses on the History and Nature of Science. Stories selected for this theme discuss great scientists and experimental design. Teachers can use these articles to help students develop an understanding and appreciation for the history and nature of science.

• Bands to Books: Connecting Literature to Experimental Design
• Technology and Society: Their Impact on Each Other (Free to all)

The Science Teacher, the Association's journal for high school educators, also focuses on the History and Nature of Science. Articles in this publication discuss how the history and nature of science can help students gain a solid understanding of the scientific enterprise.

• Keys to Teaching the Nature of Science
• The Nature of Science: Always Part of the Science Story (Free to all)
• Focusing labs on the Nature of Science
• Revising Instruction to Teach Nature of Science
• Understanding the Nature of Science Through Evolution
• Teaching the Stories of Scientists and Their Discoveries
• Incorporating History into the Science Classroom
• Quizzing Students on the Myths of Science

The Journal of College Science Teaching contains the following articles for November/December. 

• Bridging the Gap (Free to all)
• Emphasizing Astrobiology
• Introduction to Biological Investigations
• How Do You Measure Success?
• Starting the Semester at Odds
• Modeling the Writing Process

For more information, refer to www.nsta.org/journals.