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Archive: Developing a Competitive Application for Shell Science Teaching Awards, September 22, 2025

Shell Science Teaching Award: This award recognizes one outstanding classroom science teacher (K-12) who has had a positive impact on his or her students, school, and community through exemplary classroom science teaching. K-12 classroom science...

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Archive: Next Generation Science Standards: Critical Components for Implementation at Scale, October 27, 2025

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) provide the field of science education with the vision that all students in K-12 engage in science and engineering as scientists and engineers do in their professional work. Therefore, fairness, opportunit...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool Technical and Vocational Education General Science

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 22, 2025

By Debra Shapiro

Kindergarten Elementary Middle School High School Postsecondary 5E Climate Change Environmental Science General Science Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans Life Science News NGSS STEM Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

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Archive: Science Update: Bringing Quantum Science to the K-12 Classroom, November 6, 2025

Over the past 100 years quantum mechanics has become central to scientists’ understanding of the physical world: from governing the rules of chemical bonds, to underlying the workings of electronics and computers, to deepening the answers to qu...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool Technical and Vocational Education Physical Science Physics STEM Technology

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Archive: Book Beat Live! Encores and Premieres, September 15, 2025

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Preschool Early Childhood Elementary Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers General Science

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Archive: Unlocking Success: A Step-by-Step Guide to NSTA Proposal Submissions, August 19, 2025

Ready to share your best ideas with the science education community? Whether you are considering a session, poster, or workshop, we will break down the submission journey and help you craft a proposal that stands out. In this interactive sessio...

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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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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 1, 2025

By Debra Shapiro

Kindergarten Elementary Middle School High School Careers Climate Change Distance Learning Earth & Space Science General Science Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans News Physics Professional Learning Science and Engineering Practices STEM Teaching Strategies

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Enhancing Instruction with the NSTA Sensemaking Tool

Join us for a dynamic four-part webinar series, scheduled on March 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2026, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET, where educators will explore how to use the NSTA Sensemaking Tool to give actionable feedback on lessons, and support instructiona...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Middle School Preschool General Science

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Instructional Routines to Support Sensemaking, March 11, 2026

Helping students make sense of complex scientific ideas requires more than just content delivery—it requires purposeful, consistent opportunities for thinking, talking, and connecting ideas. Instructional routines are structured, repeatable str...

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