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Journal Article
Teaching Teachers: Assessing Students as Scientists
This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. Supporting teachers in assessing students’ scientific thinking....
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: What’s the Story?
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses using the 5E learning cycle to create coherent storylines....
Journal Article
Engineering Encounters: What’s The Buzz on Bees?
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information about a flower anatomy and honeybee pollination unit that incorporates inquiry and engineering....
Blog Post
A Learning Trajectory for Sensemaking in Science
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offer teachers the opportunity to consider teaching science in a new way. We help students engage with, wonder about, and make sense of natural phenomena, which closely resembles how scientists perceive th...
By Cindy Workosky
Interactive E-book Kids
Many different plants and animals live in any gven habitat, both on land and in the water. To explare this phenomenon, we follow a jumping spider named Kippy in her search for a new habitat. This spider belongs to the species Bagheera kiplingi, which...
Interactive E-book Kids
What happens when light encounters different objects and surfaces? Follow two characters, Liz and Sam, while they put on a light show to investigate this question. In the first act, Liz and Sam invite the reader to question, observe, and investigate ...
NSTA Press Book
Harnessing Solar Energy, Grade 4: STEM Road Map for Elementary School
What if you could challenge your fourth graders to use solar energy to provide the world with clean water? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Harnessing Solar Energy outlines a journey that will steer your students...