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Journal of College Science Teaching—January/February 2020
Volume 49, No. 3, January/February 2020 ...
Journal Article
Design Elements From a Rural, Multi-Organization Collaborative
On a Saturday afternoon last May in Hamilton, Montana, 150 people gathered in a college gymnasium for the Bitterroot Maker Fair. At tables around the room, student educators from the University of Montana (UM) spectrUM Discovery Area guided K–12 ...
By Beth Covitt, Vic Mortimer, Nick Wethington, and Nathalie Wolfram
Journal Article
Middle school is a critical time for fostering girls’ interest in science, as it is during these years that girls begin to identify with their strengths and weaknesses and start to decide what kind of person to be (Allen and Eisenhart 2017; Carlo...
By Alicia Santiago, Kristin Pederson, and Rita Karl
Journal Article
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) mindset is critical to youths’ ongoing participation in STEM, as well as their functioning in today’s technology-rich world (e.g., Murphy 2019). This is true for all students, but it is e...
By Jeanna R. Wieselmann
Virtual Conference
Archive: The Crosscutting Concepts as Lenses to Explore Phenomena, February 8, 2020
Crosscutting concepts are sometimes the neglected dimension of the NGSS and other standards based on the Framework for K-12 Science Education. But crosscutting concepts can provide students a useful lens for making sense of phenomena. They include pa...
Virtual Conference
Archive: Connecting In-school and Out-of-school STEM Learning and Teaching, December 7, 2019
Blended STEM learning experiences that connect in-school and out-of-school learning are a key recommendation in the recently released America’s Strategy for STEM Education: Creative, blended educational opportunities that combine elements from t...
Virtual Conference
NSTA Virtual Conference: The Crosscutting Concepts as Lenses to Explore Phenomena, February 8, 2020
Crosscutting concepts are sometimes the neglected dimension of the NGSS and other standards based on the Framework for K-12 Science Education. But crosscutting concepts can provide students a useful lens for making sense of phenomena. They include pa...
eBook
Creating Engineering Design Challenges: Success Stories From Teachers (e-book)
If you’ve ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engineering Design Challenges is the book for you. At its core are 13 units grounded in challenge-based le...
eBook
Discovery Engineering in Biology: Case Studies for Grades 6–12 (e-book)
Show your students how amazing it can be to just “see what will happen” when they blend biology, engineering, and serendipity. Focusing on innovations sparked by accidental or unexpected observations, the case studies in this resource are a livel...
NSTA Press Book
Scientific literacy for all students requires a deep understanding of the three dimensions of science education: disciplinary content, scientific and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. If you actively engage students in using and apply...
By Page Keeley, Joyce Tugel
Book Chapter
Chapters 1–3 provide background information and introduce the particular engineering design process (EDP) used in the Cincinnati Engineering Enhanced Math and Science (CEEMS) program, as well as how the design challenge unit framework connects with...