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The Explore-Before-Explain Guidebook for Science Education: Creating High Quality Lessons for the Classroom and Professional Learning

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This guidebook uses an Explore-before-Explain instructional sequence to help you facilitate the design of active meaning-making lessons in science.

Read more about The Explore-Before-Explain Guidebook for Science Education: Creating High Quality Lessons for the Classroom and Professional Learning

This guidebook uses an Explore-before-Explain instructional sequence to help you facilitate the design of active meaning-making lessons in science.

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 1, 2025

By Debra Shapiro

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Why Teaching Science to Girls Now Is More Important Than Ever

By Susan Deemer

Posted on 2025-06-20

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers: June 24, 2025

By Debra Shapiro

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I Can’t See Things Clearly

Disruption of the Visual Pathway

By Zeyuan Li, Bianca Montibeler May Freitas, Nalini V. Broadbelt

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers: June 17, 2025

By Debra Shapiro

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Press Release

STUDENTS GATHER AS WINNERS OF WORLD’S LARGEST K-12 SCIENCE COMPETITION

National Winners of 33rd Annual Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Science Competition to Be Commended at Awards Celebration

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Press Release

National Science Teaching Association Welcomes New Board and Leadership Council Members

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Archive: Enhancing Instruction with the NSTA Sensemaking Tool

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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. Participants will explore how the tool supports lesson development using a single-point rubric design. Participants will also consider how using research-based criteria to identify opportunities to strengthen student sensemaking supports professional learning.

Read more about 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. Participants will explore how the tool supports lesson development using a single-point rubric design. Participants will also consider how using research-based criteria to identify opportunities to strengthen student sensemaking supports professional learning.

Read more about 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. Participants will explore how the tool supports lesson development using a single-point rubric design. Participants will also consider how using research-based criteria to identify opportunities to strengthen student sensemaking supports professional learning.

Read more about 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. Participants will explore how the tool supports lesson development using a single-point rubric design. Participants will also consider how using research-based criteria to identify opportunities to strengthen student sensemaking supports professional learning.

Read more about 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. Participants will explore how the tool supports lesson development using a single-point rubric design. Participants will also consider how using research-based criteria to identify opportunities to strengthen student sensemaking supports professional learning.

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