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NSTA Press Book
Introducing Teachers and Administrators to the NGSS: A Professional Development Facilitator's Guide
REVERE Award Finalist, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers!If you’re charged with helping educators achieve the vision of the new science standards, this is the professional development resource you need. This book is chock-f...
By Eric Brunsell, Deb M. Kneser, Kevin J. Niemi
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
NSTA Press Book
Using Physics Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 9-12: Phenomenon-Based Learning
What student—or teacher—can resist the chance to experiment with Rocket Launchers, Drinking Birds, Dropper Poppers, Boomwhackers, Flying Pigs, and more? The 54 experiments in Using Physics Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 9–12, encourage your high sc...
By Matthew Bobrowsky, Mikko Korhonen, Jukka Kohtamäki
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
NSTA Press Book
Translating the NGSS for Classroom Instruction
With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), you need a resource to help you answer pressing questions about how the standards fit with your curriculum, instruction, and assessments. Rodger W. Bybee has written Translating the NG...
By Rodger Bybee
NSTA Press Book
The New Science Teacher's Handbook: What You Didn't Learn From Student Teaching
“One of the first activities I ask new science teachers to do in my methods course is to think of a memorable science activity from their past. Whether it’s creating an exploding vinegar and baking soda volcano, dissecting a frog, or building a m...
By Sarah Reeves Young, Mike Roberts
Acquired Book
Next Generation Science Standards. For States, By States
Not since the 2011 release of A Framework for K-12 Science Education has a document held such promise and significance for the science education community as do the Next Generation Science Standards. ...