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Creating Engineering Design Challenges: Success Stories From Teachers

If you’ve ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engineering Design Challenges is the book for you. At its core are 13 units grounded in challenge-based le...

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Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity, Teacher Edition

How do our bodies manage to heal wounds, build the stamina to run marathons, and give us the energy—even while we’re sleeping—to keep us alive and functioning? Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity prompts high school students to explore fa...

By AAAS/Project 2061

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NSTA Press Book

Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity, Student Edition

How do our bodies manage to heal wounds, build the stamina to run marathons, and give us the energy—even while we’re sleeping—to keep us alive and functioning? Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity prompts high school students to explore fa...

By AAAS/Project 2061

High School General Science Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Inquiry Lesson Plans NGSS Performance Expectations Phenomena Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Teacher Preparation

NSTA Press Book

Discovery Engineering in Biology: Case Studies for Grades 6–12

Show your students how amazing it can be to just “see what will happen” when they blend biology, engineering, and serendipity. Focusing on innovations sparked by accidental or unexpected observations, the case studies in this resource are a livel...

By Rebecca Hite, Gina Childers, Megan Ennes, M. Gail Jones

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Bring STEM Practices Into the Secondary Classroom

Blog Post

Bring STEM Practices Into the Secondary Classroom

STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—is discussed in the news, politics, and education journals, yet what does it really mean for classrooms? The Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) works to support secondary science in ...

By Juan-Carlos Aguilar, Anne Petersen, Megan Schrauben

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Identifying and Implementing Instructional Materials in Middle School

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Identifying and Implementing Instructional Materials in Middle School

Identifying and implementing science instructional materials that equitably engage students in active learning of science concepts, practices, sensemaking, problem-solving, and decision-making can be overwhelming for schools. The Council of State Sci...

By Michael Heinz, Erin Michael Escher, Ellen Ebert

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Journal Article

How Can We Motivate Our Science Students?

Notes from the field editor ...

By Ann Haley Mackenzie

High School Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Migrate to Mobile with eBird

Collaborative science projects you can join ...

By Jill Nugent

Middle School High School Citizen Science Life Science

Journal Article

Information at Your Fingertips

18th-century mobile devices! ...

By Stephen Wesson

High School Literacy Technology

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