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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...
Web Seminar
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...
NSTA Press Book
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
Web Seminar Series
Archive: Enhancing Instruction with the NSTA Sensemaking Tool
Web Seminar 1: Introduction to the NSTA Sensemaking Tool Discover the purpose, design, and structure of the NSTA Sensemaking Tool and how it reflects current research on the instructional shifts needed to teach three-dimensional science. Participant...
Member Web Seminar
Class discussions are at the heart of OpenSciEd’s instructional model, but ensuring that all students feel empowered to participate can be a challenge....
Member Web Seminar
The Putting the Pieces Together routine is a cornerstone of OpenSciEd instruction. It gives students structured opportunities to reflect, synthesize, and connect what they have learned across lessons, deepening their understanding of scientific pheno...
Member Web Seminar
Are your students making their thinking visible? OpenSciEd’s student notebooks and progress trackers are essential tools for supporting sensemaking, self-assessment, and learning over time—but only if they are used intentionally. Partici...
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Archive: 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...
Web Seminar
As science education evolves, the shift toward three-dimensional (3D) teaching and learning—integrating disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices—represents a transformative opportunity for educ...
Web Seminar
Archive: Learn and Lead: What is 3D Learning? Practical Guidance for Leaders, October 29, 2025
Three-dimensional (3D) learning is at the heart of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and today’s science education reform—but what does it really look like in classrooms, and how can leaders support its implementation system wi...