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Journal Article
Teacher To Teacher: Creating Conceptual Storylines
This column provides practical advice from your peers. A conceptual storyline employs a narrative approach to learning in which students are able to build and retain science concepts. To properly construct a conceptual storyline, educators should de...
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Scope on the Skies: Star Chart
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue describes the H-R (Hertzsprung-Russell) diagram, which is a representation of the relationship between a star’s luminosity and its temperature....
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A website design project challenges students’ creativity and motivates them to learn....
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Connecting Science and Technology
Exploring the Nature of Science using historical short stories....
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Students investigate this fascinating composite organism growing in the school yard....
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Editor's Corner: Smartphones: Challenge or Opportunity?
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Science 2.0: Choosing a 3-D Printer
This column shares web tools that support learning. Last month the authors discussed using a 3-D printer to help teach design thinking. This month they look more closely at the printers themselves. Although 3-D printers are fairly simple tools, teach...
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Focus on Physics: Radiant Energy and Global Warming
This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's article discusses electromagnetic radiation....
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Idea Bank: Using Apps That Support Scientific Practices
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. For this article, the authors analyzed 93 educational applications (apps) that have the potential to help students meaningfully engage in the science practices ou...
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Idea Bank: The Art of Chemistry
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This article describes a research-based investigation in which students explore chemical reactivity in the context of artistic expression. It results in the creat...
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Career of the Month: Social Media Manager
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Kelly Owen's career path to becoming a Social Media Manager....
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Right to the Source: How the Telegraph Changed the World
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the 1853 map of telegraph stations in the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia....
NSTA Press Book
Adventures With Arthropods: Eco-Friendly Lessons for Middle School
If you’ve ever wished you could teach with tarantulas—or roly polys, or Madagascar hissing cockroaches—this is the resource for you. It tells how to help middle schoolers get up close and personal with amazing arthropods, the bugs that make up ...
By Ron Wagler
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Adventures With Arthropods: Eco-Friendly Lessons for Middle School (e-book)
If you’ve ever wished you could teach with tarantulas—or roly polys, or Madagascar hissing cockroaches—this is the resource for you. It tells how to help middle schoolers get up close and personal with amazing arthropods, the bugs that make up ...
Book Chapter
In this lesson, students learn the basics about construction materials, the construction processes used in building tall towers, and the forces and geometry associated with static structures. To be able to understand the science and mathematics invol...
Book Chapter
In this lesson, students learn about the engineering concept of learning from failure by examining the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers. They also learn about the science and mathematics behind the collapse of these structures, as well ...
Book Chapter
New Technologies for High-Rise Buildings
In this lesson, student teams are challenged to examine the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Each team will develop a proposal for a new or improved building material or method that could be incorporated into the design of future high...
Interactive E-book Kids
Many different plants and animals live in any gven habitat, both on land and in the water. To explare this phenomenon, we follow a jumping spider named Kippy in her search for a new habitat. This spider belongs to the species Bagheera kiplingi, which...
Interactive E-book Kids
What happens when light encounters different objects and surfaces? Follow two characters, Liz and Sam, while they put on a light show to investigate this question. In the first act, Liz and Sam invite the reader to question, observe, and investigate ...
Journal Article
Increasing STEM Outcomes Through Quality Collaborations
Discover how early childhood faculty at the University of Memphis launched a new collaborative partnership with the Children’s Museum of Memphis to develop and implement early STEM learning activities during a teaching course requirement and field ...
By Shelly L. Counsell and Felicia Peat
Journal Article
Brown University’s Science Cartoons (SciToons) series makes science fun, engaging, and easier to understand through the captivating power of storytelling and animation. ...
By Oludurotimi Adetunji
Journal Article
The Collaborative for Early Science Learning is a group of six museums in six different cities that partner with their local Head Start programs to provide training for teachers and opportunities for family engagement. ...
By Michelle Kortenaar, Victoria Fiordalis, Miriam Krause, Laurinda Willard, Cheryl Lani Juárez, Melissa Thomas, Zoe Peters, Carrie Jubran, and Alli Sribarra
Book Chapter
Wind Energy, Grade 5: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)
New in 2017 What if you could challenge your fifth graders to develop an economical, eco-friendly wind farm? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Wind Energy outlines a journey that will steer your students toward aut...
Book Chapter
This lesson introduces the concepts of energy as the ability to do work, energy transformations, and potential and kinetic energy. It also presents the concept of scarce resources as an introduction to the module’s final challenge, the Water for Al...
Book Chapter
In this lesson, students are introduced to the concept of renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. By tracing their own energy supplies to the source, students learn that all energy on earth ultimately comes from the Sun. Students work in teams to ...
Book Chapter
In this lesson, students gain an understanding of the greenhouse effect as a natural process that traps warm air in the Earth’s atmosphere and is magnified by carbon emissions. Students compare the environmental effects of solar energy and fossil f...
Book Chapter
This lesson incorporates a scientific investigation of the properties of salt water. Students investigate the salinity in different types of water and ways that salt and other particles can be removed from drinking water. We recommend reading Chapter...
Book Chapter
In this final lesson, students use the knowledge they have accumulated throughout the module to complete the Water for All Challenge. The teams design and build desaladoras—desalination devices that use passive solar energy. Students contend with s...
Book Chapter
The Thrill of the Ride—History and Psychology of Amusement Parks
This lesson launches the module by having the students examine photos, watch a video of an art project with extreme amusement rides, and view the accompanying website, which connects how particular characteristics of physics and engineering are used ...
Book Chapter
In this lesson, students investigate types of energy transfer and run simulations to consider design factors for amusements such as speed, height, and sustainability. To get a sense of the physics behind the amusements, students will participate in t...
Book Chapter
Amusement Park of the Future Design Challenge
This lesson is the culmination of the module and synthesizes the knowledge and skills that students gained in the first two lessons. They conducted preliminary analyses and gave thought to design features and now they expand on them. In this lesson, ...
NSTA Press Book
Harnessing Solar Energy, Grade 4: STEM Road Map for Elementary School
What if you could challenge your fourth graders to use solar energy to provide the world with clean water? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Harnessing Solar Energy outlines a journey that will steer your students...
eBook
Harnessing Solar Energy, Grade 4: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (e-book)
What if you could challenge your fourth graders to use solar energy to provide the world with clean water? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Harnessing Solar Energy outlines a journey that will steer your students...
Book Chapter
Adventures With Arthropods: Eco-Friendly Lessons for Middle School (book sample)
New in 2017!...
Book Chapter
Construction Materials, Grade 11: STEM Road Map for High School (Book Sample)
What if you could challenge your 11th graders to gain an understanding of the feats of engineering required to build high-rise buildings—and maybe even improve them? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Constructio...
NSTA Press Book
Construction Materials, Grade 11: STEM Road Map for High School
What if you could challenge your 11th graders to gain an understanding of the feats of engineering required to build high-rise buildings—and maybe even improve them? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!...
eBook
Construction Materials, Grade 11: STEM Road Map for High School ( e-book)
What if you could challenge your 11th graders to gain an understanding of the feats of engineering required to build high-rise buildings—and maybe even improve them? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Constructio...