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I Live Where I Live Because...
In order to survive in an environment, organisms have many different physical characteristics that help regulate their temperature, move, find food, and protect themselves. The students’ first analyze data from a case study on the peppered moth, le...
Journal Article
Learn how to create opportunities for young people from low-income, ethnically diverse communities to learn about growing food, doing science, and how science can help them contribute to their community in positive ways. The authors developed a progr...
By Amie Patchen, Andrea Aeschlimann, Anne Vera-Cruz, Anushree Kamath, Deborah Jose, Jackie DeLisi, Michael Barnett, Paul Madden, and Rajeev Rupani
Journal Article
Collaboration + Good Coffee = Connected Science Learning Success
A collaboration between two North Carolina state agencies allows in-school and out-of-school educators to share knowledge, engage students in in-school and out-of-school opportunities, and develop learning communities to advance science education i...
By Debra T. Hall, Benita B. Tipton, Lisa Tolley, and Marty Wiggins
Journal Article
Showing how various math and science topics relate to the real world is the key to motivating youth to pursue STEM careers. This idea is essential to the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) BLOSSOMS initiative....
By Elizabeth Murray and Richard Larson
Journal Article
Editor Dennis Schatz introduces the third issue, focused on how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning surrounds us. This issue features contributions on the theme of STEM Learning Surrounds Us: Building learning ec...
By Dennis Schatz
Book Chapter
Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspire STEM Learning (Book Sample)
"Teachers in our district have been fans of Picture-Perfect Science for years, and it’s made a huge impact on how they fit science into their school day. We are so excited to do more of the same with these Picture-Perfect STEM books!"—Chris Gible...
eBook
Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspire STEM Learning (e-book)
New in 2017!"Teachers in our district have been fans of Picture-Perfect Science for years, and it’s made a huge impact on how they fit science into their school day. We are so excited to do more of the same with these Picture-Perfect STEM books!"�...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Resources and Human Impact (Student Edition)
The Resources and Human Impact Interactive E-book examines the role society plays in environmental degradation and the technological solutions that arise in response to environmental issues. Human beings modify components of Earth’s ecosystems as t...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Explaining Matter with Elements, Atoms, and Molecules (Student Edition)
The Explaining Matter With Elements, Atoms, and Molecules Interactive E-book explores the properties of substances and elements and examines the investigative evidence for the atoms and molecules that make up all matter. Certain properties can be use...
Journal
Connected Science Learning May-July 2017
Volume 1, Issue 3 STEM Learning Surrounds Us: Building ecosystems that connect STEM education across learning settings ...
Journal Article
Student-centered forms of instruction based in a constructivist framework, where students are guided toward actively constructing their understanding, have been met with success. However, implementation of constructivist-based curricula and complemen...
Journal Article
Student-Designed Experiments: A Pedagogical Design for Introductory Science Labs
Despite numerous calls for science education to be driven by authentic investigation, many laboratory experiences continue to consist of disconnected weekly units during which students carry out instructions that lead to some predetermined finding. T...
Journal Article
Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education: A Call to Action, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011, suggested cultivating biological literacy and practicing more student-centered learning in undergraduate lif...
Journal Article
A Crash Course in Undergraduate Research
Studies have shown that engaging students in undergraduate research and improving students’ science identities will increase minority students’ chances of completing their degrees and pursuing graduate studies. This article describes a beginner-l...
Journal Article
Increasing Student Interactions With Learning
The authors discuss the use of specific teaching strategies to increase student interactions with student learning objectives....
Journal Article
The integration of an undergraduate science content course and science methods course into a single combined course for preservice teachers, including a precourse field experience, was undertaken at a small, liberal arts college. The conceptual frame...
Journal Article
Research and Teaching: Correcting Missed Exam Questions as a Learning Tool in a Physiology Course
Students in a junior- and senior-level Anatomy and Physiology course have the opportunity to correct missed exam questions (“regrade”) and earn up to half of the original points missed. The three objectives of this study were to determine if (a)...
Journal Article
This article explores how English language learners’ writing evolved during a first-year seminar in science course aimed at developing students’ argumentation skills. We highlight how a science communications course was paired with a weekly acade...
Journal Article
The authors investigated stakeholders’ perceptions of a novel GTA PD program implemented in The Ohio State University (OSU) Center for Life Sciences Education (CLSE), which coordinates biology courses at an R1 institution. GTAs involved in the prog...
Journal Article
Point of View: Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners
When you think of collaborating with campus partners on activities to increase the retention of students in science majors, who comes to mind? Other academic departments, the IT department, science and math tutoring—but do you think of science libr...
Journal Article
Case Study: Guidelines for Producing Videos to Accompany Flipped Cases
Three years ago, the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS) was inspired to merge the case study and flipped classroom approaches. The resulting project aimed to create the materials required to teach a flipped course in introdu...
Class Pack
Space Exploration ClassPack: Grades 3-5
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Class Pack
Solving the Puzzle ClassPack: Grades 3-5
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Class Pack
Hurricane ClassPack: Grades 3-5
Using Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons: 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspires STEM Learning in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unma...
Class Pack
Bionic Animals ClassPack: Grades 3-5
*This product is not eligible for return or exchange. All sales are final.* Using Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons: 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspires STEM Learning in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient ...
Class Pack
Spider Science ClassPack: Grades 3-5
Using Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons: 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspires STEM Learning in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unma...
Class Pack
From Edison to the IPod ClassPack: Grades 3-5
Using Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons: 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspires STEM Learning in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unma...
Class Pack
*LAST CHANCE! This product is not eligible for return or exchange. All sales are final.* ...