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The Explore-Before-Explain Guidebook for Science Education: Creating High Quality Lessons for the Classroom and Professional Learning

This guidebook uses an Explore-before-Explain instructional sequence to help you facilitate the design of active meaning-making lessons in science....

By Patrick Brown

Elementary High School Middle School Preschool Curriculum Pedagogy Phenomena Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation Sensemaking

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Productive Uncertainty in Science Education: Engaging Students in Meaningful Science Practice

Productive Uncertainty in Science Education provides the support that teachers and students need for more complex science investigations....

By Eve Manz

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Making Sense of Sensemaking: Designing Authentic K–12 STEM Learning Experiences

Dive into the transformative world of science education with this groundbreaking guide (K–12). In Making Sense of Sensemaking, readers will learn how to navigate the journey from traditional teaching to a dynamic, student-centered approach tha...

By TJ McKenna

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Model-Based Inquiry in Chemistry: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12

Transform your chemistry lessons from abstract concepts into engrossing learning experiences that help high school students understand what happens in the world. You can do it with Model-Based Inquiry in Chemistry: Three-Dimensional Instructional Uni...

By Todd Campbell, Ron Gray

High School Chemistry Instructional Materials NGSS Phenomena Teaching Strategies

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Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions

Click here to view video of Wild Wonderings Let your curiosity run wild! This lively book will inspire you to ask questions like scientists do. Why? Because questions can lead you to amazing discoveries. Like what? Like when theoretical physicist ...

By Jessica Fries-Gaither

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool Technical and Vocational Education General Science STEM 5E Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials Inquiry NGSS Pedagogy Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Equity Inclusion Interdisciplinary Literacy Multicultural New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation Sensemaking

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Learning with AI: The K-12 Teacher’s Guide to a New Era of Human Learning

Unlock the Future of Education with "Learning with AI" Discover how artificial intelligence is transforming education with "Learning with AI," a pivotal co-publication from Johns Hopkins University Press and the National Science Teaching Assoc...

By Joan Monahan Watson

Postsecondary High School Informal Education Technical and Vocational Education Computer Science General Science Mathematics STEM Technology Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Advocacy Careers Disabilities Equity Interdisciplinary New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation Administrators

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 2: 30 New Formative Assessment Probes

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By Page Keeley

Elementary High School Middle School Assessment Instructional Materials

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Creating and Using Instructionally Supportive Assessments in NGSS Classrooms

Imagine handing out assessments that spark enthusiasm rather than dread. In six easy-to-follow steps, this book empowers science teachers to create tasks that guide students to use their knowledge, not just memorize facts. The NGSA design process tra...

By Christopher Harris, Joe Krajcik, James Pellegrino

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Leadership by and for Science Teachers

Imagine having the opportunity to hear from 21 colleagues about their personal leadership journeys—and to get their advice. Leadership by and for Science Teachers is just such an opportunity. Author Rodger Bybee provides the insights and inspiratio...

By Rodger Bybee

Early Childhood Elementary High School Middle School General Science STEM Teaching Strategies Careers New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Administrators

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Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, Second Grade, Expanded Edition: Using Children’s Books for Three-Dimensional Learning

There’s a lot to love about this newly expanded book in the Picture-Perfect Science series: You can combine STEM and reading through appealing lessons that are just right for your second-grade students. Also, reading comprehension strategies are em...

By Emily Morgan, Karen Ansberry

Elementary General Science Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

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Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12

This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class” to “we need to figure out why or how things happen in the world.” Using the book�...

By Ron Gray, Todd Campbell

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Activating Students' Ideas: Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence, K-5

Science teachers face an incredible challenging task of combining research on how students learn best, the three-dimensions of the Science Education Frameworks that in themselves are complicated to understand, and instructional sequences that lead to...

By Patrick Brown, Page Keeley

Early Childhood Elementary General Science 5E Assessment Instructional Materials NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation