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Editor's Corner: Write for The Science Teacher

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Science 2.0: Mastering Scientific Practices With Technology

This column shares web tools that support learning. The Next Generation Science Standards require students to engage in scientific and engineering practices. Technology tools can help incorporate these practices into the classroom. The authors descri...

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The Green Room: Conserving Tropical Rain Forests

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. Expose your students to conservation efforts and ideas from sources such as National Geographic and NASA to help them come up with solutions to deforestation....

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Health Wise: Getting Past the Peak of Flu Season

This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses facts about the flu and the various ways to prevent getting sick....

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Career of the Month: Electrical Engineer

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Tom Coughlin's career path to becoming an electrical engineer....

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Safer Science: Safety in Science Instruction

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses NSTA's position paper "Safety and School Science Instruction." It encourages K–12 school leaders and teachers to promote and support...

High School General Science Lesson Plans Safety Administrators

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Mars Colony

Using role-play as a pedagogical approach to teaching science....

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Amazing Muses of Science

An interdisciplinary project creates awareness of female scientists....

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Ornithologists By Design

Kindergarteners design, construct, and evaluate bird feeders....

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Start With a Story

Five schools and a zoo use the one book, one community model to bridge STEM into STEAM....

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Luminous Lighting

In this STEAM activity, students create wire sculptures that light up....

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Editor's Note: STEAM: Beyond the Acronym

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

STEM NGSS Teaching Strategies

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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Science of Art

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue allows students to explore the components of STEAM through a favorite art supply, the crayon, and a beloved American tradition, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Pa...

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

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Planning NGSS-Based Instruction: Where Do You Start?

Allow students to pursue their own questions as you work to incorporate the NGSS into your curriculum....

High School General Science NGSS Teaching Strategies

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The Early Years: Fostering Environmental Stewardship

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue includes an activity that aims to strengthen teachers’ awareness of how children learn in the STEAM disciplines as they explore a natur...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Environmental Science STEM Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Advocacy Citizen Science

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Safety First: Safety Picks Up “STEAM”

This column shares safety information for your classroom. At the elementary level, teachers have inherently integrated STEAM, compared to their secondary-level counterparts. However, with this approach comes an even greater need for attention to safe...

Elementary STEM Instructional Materials Labs Safety

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Science 101: What’s Going on When You Mix Colors?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue helps teachers to understand color mixing so that they can teach this information to students....

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NSTA Press Book

Student Lab Manual for Argument-Driven Inquiry in Chemistry: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 (e-book)

Are you interested in using argument-driven inquiry for high school lab instruction but aren’t sure how to do it? You aren’t alone. Argument-Driven Inquiry in Chemistry is a one-stop source of expertise, advice, and investigations, with the infor...

By Victor Sampson, Peter Carafano, Patrick Enderle, Steve Fannin, Jonathon Grooms, Sherry A. Southerland, Carol Stallworth, Kiesha Williams

Interactive E-book

Nutrition

Nutrition is an interdisciplinary subject. To maintain a healthy lifestyle, individuals need to make informed decisions about personal nutrition, taking into account information about cells, body systems, energy, matter, and molecules. The Nutrition ...

Postsecondary Biology Life Science Technology 5E Assessment Instructional Materials Inquiry Teaching Strategies Teacher Preparation

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Earth's Changing Surfaces

Earth is a system that exists in dynamic equilibrium. The Earth of today does not look the same as it did millions of years ago. Even the Earth thousands of years ago has distinct differences from the Earth we know today. The Earth’s Changing Surfa...

Postsecondary Earth & Space Science Technology 5E Assessment Instructional Materials Inquiry Teaching Strategies Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation

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Atomic Structure

By asking questions, conducting investigations, and interpreting results, scientists now have a better understanding of what makes up the smallest unit of matter that has properties of an element. The Atomic Structure Interactive E-book* uses investi...

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Cells and Chemical Reactions

All organisms—from single-celled bacteria to multicellular animals—need to obtain and use energy. The Cells and Chemical Reactions Interactive E-book* takes a closer look at the process of metabolism in cells, including photosynthesis in plant ce...

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NSTA Press Book

Science Formative Assessment, Volume 1: 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning - 2nd Edition

A Copublication of Corwin Press and NSTA Press...

By Page Keeley

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