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NSTA Press Book
If you and your students can’t get enough of a good thing, Volume 2 of Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science is just what you need. The book offers 39 new formative assessment probes, this time with a focus on electric charge, electric curre...
By Page Keeley, Rand Harrington
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: Let's Talk Trash
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue helps students focus on what trash is, which trash can be recycled, and where their trash ends up in the process....
Journal Article
The Early Years: Ecosystems, Up Close and Personal
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses children observing and documenting the growth of a plant from a seed to seed-production and animal interactions with the plant....
Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Habitat Change: Formative Assessment of a Cautionary Word
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses word usage and learning about habitat....
Book Chapter
A Need for Speed? Should Speed Limits Be Lowered to Reduce Traffic Fatalities?
During this unit, students will investigate physical science concepts related to forces and motion. They will then synthesize and apply their learning to grapple with the question of whether speed limits should be lowered to reduce traffic accidents....
NSTA Press Book
It's Debatable! Using Socioscientific Issues to Develop Scientific Literacy K-12
REVERE Award Finalist, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers!“Functional scientific literacy requires an understanding of the nature of science and the skills necessary to think both scientifically and ethically about everyday ...
By Dana L. Zeidler, Sami Kahn
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: The Science and Technology of Sound
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue explores questions surrounding the topic of sound....
Journal Article
The Early Years: Becoming Attuned to Sound
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue provides sound explorations....
Journal Article
Recognizing Excellence: Pinging: Sound at Work
A "Teacher at Sea" learns how scientists use sound....