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Disequilibrium: A Human Circuit
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event involves creating a human circuit using gadgets....
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Listserv Roundup: Getting Smart With Energy
This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. NSTA's Physical Science listserv members recently discussed information about energy and its different forms, with conversations ab...
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Science for All: Empowering Students Through Collaboration
This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's column provides strategies for grouping students to increase their productivity, accountability, engagement, and performance levels, while still providing them with the lev...
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Teacher to Teacher: Predicting, Explaining, and Observing Thermal Energy Transfer
This column provides practical advice from your peers. This month's columnn discusses using the Mixing Water formative assessment probe from Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Vol. 2 to determine student thinking regarding thermal energy transfer a...
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Scope on the Skies: Studying Rings Around the Sun
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses asteroids and moons....
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Students learn firsthand how thawing permafrost adds to global warming....
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Building paper chromosomes to help understand five key terms in genetics....
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Editor's Corner: Authentic Science Practices
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Commentary: Proactive Leadership
An opinion piece about how reform in science education is appearing on multiple fronts....
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Science 2.0: Developing the Knowledge Constructor
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the ISTE’s Knowledge Constructor standard....
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Focus on Physics: How E = mc2 Helps Us Understand Nuclear Fission and Fusion
This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. Nuclear physics has an undeserved reputation for being tough for students. This article may reduce this “toughness” by showing how Einstein’s familiar equation E = mc2 re...
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Health Wise: Keeping Track of Sugar
Students study sediment cores to learn about climate in the past. Students learn how to read Nutrition Facts labels to learn how much sugar is in a food item....
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Career of the Month: Interdisciplinary Technologist
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes George Church's career path to becoming an interdisciplinary technologist....
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Right to the Source: Aerial Photos Change the Face of War
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the effects of photography on war strategy....
NSTA Press Book
REVERE Award Winner, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers!...
By Terry Shiverdecker, Jessica Fries-Gaither
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The Exploratorium Teacher Institute leverages a network of teachers, education researchers, practicing scientists, and informal education staff to address the professional learning needs of secondary science teachers. ...
By Julie H. Yu and Sara C. Heredia
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From Curiosity to Conservation Careers
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Conservation Connect, a freely available video series, connects learners to wildlife, technology, and careers. ...
By Maria Parisi
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First Issue of Connected Science Learning a Great Success
CSL editor Dennis Schatz discusses the response to our first issue, the journal’s new serialized publication format, and this issue’s theme, professional development. All of us associated with producing Connected Science Learning a...
By Dennis Schatz
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Noticing by NYSCI is a project based at the New York Hall of Science that fosters deeper student learning and engagement through the use of five specialized, iPad-based mobile apps. Throughout the process of developing these Noticing Tools, a cohor...
By Amanda Solarsh, Gina Tesoriero, Michaela Labriole, and Tara Chudoba
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Promoting Equitable Access to STEM in a Summer Herpetology Fieldwork Program
The HERP (Herpetology Education in Rural Places and Spaces) Project links in-school and out-of-school learning spaces by offering summer programs that engage high school students, scientists, and educators. The authors share the strategies they used ...
By Aerin Benavides, Amy Germuth, Catherine E. Matthews, Heidi B. Carlone, Lacey Huffling, and Mary Ash
Book Chapter
This chapter addresses experimental and field observations, which include aspects of Asking Questions and Defining Problems; Planning and Carrying Out Investigations; Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions; and Engaging in Argument From Ev...
Book Chapter
This chapter addresses experimental and field observations, which include aspects of Asking Questions and Defining Problems; Planning and Carrying Out Investigations; Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions; and Engaging in Argument From Ev...
Book Chapter
This chapter addresses experimental and field observations, which include aspects of Asking Questions and Defining Problems; Planning and Carrying Out Investigations; Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions; and Engaging in Argument From Ev...
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Analyzing and Interpreting Data, Part 1: Graphing
This chapter addresses the interpretation of data through graphs, maps, and cross-sections, which includes aspects of Developing and Using Models; Analyzing and Interpreting Data; Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking; Engaging in Argument Fro...
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Analyzing and Interpreting Data, Part 2: Maps and Cross-Sections
This chapter addresses the interpretation of data through graphs, maps, and cross-sections, which includes aspects of Developing and Using Models; Analyzing and Interpreting Data; Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking; Engaging in Argument Fro...
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Modeling, Part 1: Conceptual Modeling
This chapter addresses the creation and use of conceptual and mathematical models, which include aspects of Developing and Using Models, Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking, and Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions. A model is a...
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Modeling, Part 2: Mathematical Modeling
This chapter addresses the creation and use of conceptual and mathematical models, which include aspects of Developing and Using Models, Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking, and Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions. In this chap...
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Arguing from Evidence, Part 1: Focus on Evidence
This chapter addresses identification of evidence and arguing from evidence, which include aspects of Developing and Using Models; Analyzing and Interpreting Data; Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions; Engaging in Argument From Evidence...
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Arguing from Evidence, Part 2: Claim and Argument
This chapter addresses identification of evidence and arguing from evidence, which include aspects of Developing and Using Models; Analyzing and Interpreting Data; Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions; Engaging in Argument From Evidence...
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This chapter focuses on reading the earth in the rocks. Rocks tell the story of Earth’s past, and we believe that lessons on rocks should include a focus on reading those stories. Many students encounter rocks as an exercise in classification and ...
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This chapter focuses on reading the earth in the layers of rock. Whereas rocks tell the story of what a place was like at one time in the past, layers of rock tell the story of how that place changed through time. The discovery of deep time began, no...
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Stories of Places We Can’t See But Can Hear
This chapter focuses on reading the earth with seismic waves and identifies several important aspects of authentic science, including asking questions, figuring out problems that you don’t already know the answer to, and putting your results into t...
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Stories of Places We Can’t Go But Can See
This chapter focuses on reading the earth with light. Distance learning has a long history. In this chapter, the “Suggestions for Designing an Activity” section offers a way to start with observations in building a model for phases of the Moon. T...
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This chapter focuses on reading the earth in the atoms. Activities are considered that can engage students at the “classroom-friendly” end of the learning spectrum. Understanding geochemical cycling and the differentiation of matter in planetary ...
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Teacher as Curriculum Narrator
This chapter examines the importance of the teacher in narrating the link between spontaneous and creative explorations of the classroom and the core ideas of the discipline. Implementing an authentic science experience in the classroom requires a si...
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This chapter examines the importance of the teacher initiating creative explorations from where you are in place and understanding. With an emphasis on the practice of doing science, students can learn to make sense of observations. They can learn h...
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Teacher as Mentor, Practitioner, and Scholar
This chapter examines mentoring student explorations as a fellow scholar and practitioner of science. The mentor does not give students assignments and then step back and let students sink or swim. The mentor guides, advises, nudges, and, most import...