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Archive: What's in the American Rescue Plan for K-12 and Science Education?, April 6, 2021
In March President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law. The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package--which includes $125.8 Billion for K-12 education--is intended to provide continued economic relief to all Americans....
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NSTA now has sensemaking lesson plans to support the Framework vision for science education and the focus on ALL students. These sensemaking tasks target specific grades and gradebands including a family section to support science learning in the hom...
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Archive: Write from the Start, March 11, 2021
Have you read great articles in the NSTA journals that changed or added to the ways you and your students do science for the better? You could inspire other educators across the country in the same way by sharing your teaching ideas, activities or le...
Journal Article
Use of a Linked-Course Model to Teach Scientific Writing to First-Year Undergraduates
The ability to read and compose original scientific literature is critical to educating informed citizens, yet may be severely lacking in undergraduate curricula. We developed a linked course offering in fall 2017 consisting of a 16-student group tak...
By Evan Lampert and J. Stephen Pearson
Journal Article
In this paper we put forth a model for physics course reform that uniquely uses proven, research-based active-learning strategies to help students improve their physics knowledge and problem-solving skills. In this study, we compared the exam perform...
By Colin S. Wallace, Edward E. Prather, John A. Milsom, Ken Johns, and Srin Manne
Journal Article
Course-based undergraduate research is promoted as an equitable strategy for providing the benefits of research experiences to a larger, more diverse population of students pursuing science degrees. Here, we report the impacts of course-based researc...
By Allison Martin, Adam Rechs, Thomas Landerholm, and Kelly McDonald
Journal Article
Measuring Data Skills in Undergraduate Student Work
Data literacy, or students’ abilities to understand, interpret, and think critically about data, is an increasing need in K–16 science education. Ocean Tracks College Edition (OT-CE) sought to address this need by creating a set of learning modul...
By Jessica Sickler, Erin Bardar, and Randy Kochevar
Journal Article
Responsive Teaching in Online Learning Environments
Online teaching and learning have become widespread in higher education over the past two decades, and accelerated during the pandemic. Although online learning is expanding and has many benefits, instructors teaching online courses must deal with a ...
By Young Ae Kim, Lisa Rezende, Elizabeth Eadie, Jacqueline Maximillian, Katelyn Southard, Lisa Elfring, Paul Blowers, and Vicente Talanquer
Journal Article
Taking the Office Hour Out of the Office
Science classrooms across our campus have changed dramatically over the past 10 years as an increasing number of instructors have incorporated a variety of active learning techniques into their teaching practice, using, for example, classroom respons...
By Patrick Cafferty