NSTA - National Science Teachers Association

Earth's Changing Surface National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Earth’s Changing Surface SciPack explores how Earth’s ever-changing surface is due to continuous natural processes such as tectonic activity, earthquakes, volcanic activities, weathering and erosion, and sedimentation and the reformation of rock. The focus is on topics supporting Standards and Benchmarks related to how and why these processes occur, and how elements cycle through the land, oceans, and atmosphere as a result of these processes. This SciPack looks at Earth as a system that exists in dynamic equilibrium. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School

Explaining Matter with Elements, Atoms, and Molecules National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed, online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed, online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Explaining Matter with Elements, Atoms, and Molecules SciPack explores the properties of substances and elements, and looks at the investigative evidence for the atoms and molecules that make up all matter. Additionally, this SciPack looks at the repetition of properties in families of elements, the development of the periodic table of elements, the distinct ratios at which atoms and molecules interact, and the difference between atoms and molecules in various states of matter. This SciPack is focused on the National Science Education Standards and Benchmarks related to the chemical and physical properties of elements and substances, states of matter, and understanding and using the periodic table of elements. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School

Cell Structure and Function National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Cell Structure and Function SciPack explores how cells, the basic building blocks of all organisms, function as systems of organelles and associated structures in a dynamic equilibrium between its internal and external environment. The focus is on topics related to Standards and Benchmarks related to the structure of various types of cells, the molecular workings inside the cell, and the role of proteins as the main structural and functional molecules of the cell. This SciPack uses the “cell as a system” concept. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School

Rocks National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Rock SciPack explores different kinds and categories of rocks, the major processes through which they form and the cyclical nature of the formation and transformation of rock materials. The focus is on topics supporting Standards and Benchmarks related to the rock cycle as part of the transfer and transformation of matter and energy in Earth’s system as well as a sense of the time scales involved and how rocks provide information about their own development and the history of Earth. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School

Resources and Human Impact National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Resources and Human Impact SciPack explores the role society plays in environmental degradation, and the technological solutions, including resource management, that arises from environmental issues. Human beings modify all components of Earth’s ecosystems as they use and consume available resources. The amount and rate of consumption is affected by the population growth and access to technology. This SciPack is focused on Standards and Benchmarks related to interactions in and between ecosystem; population growth and carrying capacity; resource use; and environmental degradation and changes to Earth’s systems. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School

Coral Reef Ecosystems National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Coral Reef Ecosystems SciPack explores the unique and diverse ecosystem of the coral reef. The focus is on Standards and Benchmarks related to populations and ecosystems using coral reefs and their immediate environment as an example. Because the Standards and Benchmarks present the concepts of populations and ecosystems generically, without reference to a specific ecosystem or the organisms in the system, coral reefs are used to provide the context through which concepts in a marine ecosystem are explored. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School

Flow of Matter and Energy in Ecosystems National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Flow of Matter and Energy in Ecosystems SciPack explores the systemic interplay and flow of matter and energy throughout ecosystems, populations and organisms. Energy from the sun is the direct or indirect source of energy for nearly all organisms, it can flow only in one direction through ecosystems: from the sun to producers, to consumers, and finally to decomposers. Unlike the unidirectional transformation of energy, matter cycles among ecosystem components. One key ecosystem function, the cycling of carbon from non-living to living components and back, serves as a primary example in this SciPack for how all nutrients cycle on Earth. Webs and pyramids are used to model and communicate about the transfer of energy and cycling of matter within an ecosystem, representing how the total living biomass stays roughly constant—cycling materials from old to new life—accompanied by an irreversible flow of energy from captured sunlight into dissipated heat. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School

Force and Motion National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Force and Motion SciPack explores the effects of forces on the motion of objects. The focus is on topics linked to Standards and Benchmarks related to concepts such as constant motion, acceleration, speed and direction as well as a discussion of Newton’s Laws of Motion. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School

Cells and Chemical Reactions National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Cells and Chemical Reactions SciPack explores the chemical reactions that take place in plant and animal cells. The SciPack takes a close look at the process of photosynthesis in plant cells and cellular respiration in plant and animal cells. Additionally, this SciPack looks at how the rates of these reactions can be affected by temperature, pH, hydration levels, and enzymes. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School

Atomic Structure National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) SciPack SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment...  [view full summary] SciPacks are self-directed online learning experiences for teachers to enhance their understanding of a particular scientific concept and its related pedagogical implications for student learning. Unlimited expert content help via email and a final assessment both facilitate and document teacher learning. The Atomic Structure SciPack uses investigative evidence to explore the structure of atoms and the parts that make up atoms. Additionally, this SciPack looks at the forces that hold an atom and an atom’s nucleus together, isotopes, radioactivity, nuclear fusion and fission, and the energy contained in atoms. [hide full abstract] Member Price: $31.99 Nonmember Price: $39.99 Grade Level: Elementary School, High School, Middle School