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Journal Article
Prior research in student retention emphasizes that building students’ connections with the institution and their peers is key. Students from underrepresented populations often lack these connections, making them more prone to dropping out or trans...
By Anne Lucietto, Holden Buckner, and Antonia Munguia
Journal Article
Using Growth Rings on Wooden Blocks and Plywood to Enhance Students’ Spatial Reasoning Skills
Spatial reasoning is one of the most challenging skills to master in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This article reports the results of a teaching intervention that involved using wooden blocks to enhance the dev...
By Jeff B. Chaumba and Josphine Chaumba
Journal Article
Using Popular Fiction to Inspire Scientific Inquiry
Many teacher educator preparation programs do not provide opportunities for preservice teachers (PSTs) to experience and examine the use of popular fiction as a connection point to science teaching. This study explores a unit designed to support PSTs...
By Kristin Cook and Winn Wheeler
Journal Article
In response to the demand for more STEM-certified teachers, identity has emerged as a theoretical lens for examining how candidates can be recruited into and retained in the teaching profession. This study explores the intersection between teaching i...
By Ingelise Giles, Nicole Cook, Zahra Hazari, Maria Fernandez, and Laird Kramer
Journal Article
Conversion of Traditional Face-to-Face MLS Hematology Courses Into Remote Delivery
The design of a hybrid Hematology I course (prepandemic) was adopted for Hematology II and facilitated our conversion of Hematology II into a fully remote course by fall 2020, after the university went into remote instruction. When the university sus...
By Sanjeeda Jafar, Shruti Budhani, and Diane Wilson
Journal Article
Maximizing Learning Objectives in Undergraduate Research Journals
Undergraduate research journals (URJs) introduce students to the peer review and publication processes, teaching them to write manuscripts that will be reviewed for scientific rigor. Although the merits of URJs have been debated, this article argues ...
By Shamel Basaria, Taylor S. Ginieczki, Shloka V. Janapaty, Rohan Nigam, and Davis H. Smith
Journal Article
Walking the Walk and Talking the Talk
By Alison Haas, Abigail Schwenger, Leah Master, Scott E. Grapin, and Okhee Lee
Journal Article
Rainfall, River Height, and Local Relevance
By Lauren E. Brase, Lindsay C. Mossa, and Edward C. Robeck
Journal Article
Fostering Community-Engaged Problem-Solvers
By Amanda Rapstad, Rebekah Hammack, and Nicholas Lux
Journal Article
By Tyneezha Harris, Min Jung Lee, Kristie Gutierrez, and Jennifer Kidd
Journal Article
Linking Formative Assessment Probes to the Explore-Before-Explain Instructional Sequence
By Page Keeley
Journal
Science and Children—May/June 2023
Volume 60, Number 5 May/June 2023 Environmental Science: Natural Disasters Opening just about any newspaper or tuning into a local newscast will inevitably reveal a story about a recent disaster or the possibility of an impending one....
Journal
Volume 46, Number 5 May/June 2023 Exploring Real-World Problems Engaging middle school students in the exploration of real-world problems, particularly those that require engineering, can not only garner student engagement, but also put st...
Journal
The Science Teacher—May/June 2023
Volume 90, Number 5 May/June 2023 Promoting Scientific Literacy Scientific literacy means understanding how science is done, what is science versus non-science, and how to evaluate claims we are exposed to on a daily basis....
Journal Article
Justice-Centered STEM Education With Multilingual Learners
By Scott E. Grapin, Sharon Dudek, and Okhee Lee
Journal Article
The Benefits of Integrating Engineering Into Science
By Mihir K. Ravel and Cary I. Sneider
eBook
Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12 (e-book)
This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class” to “we need to figure out why or how things happen in the world.” Using the book�...
NSTA Press Book
Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12
This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class” to “we need to figure out why or how things happen in the world.” Using the book�...
By Ron Gray, Todd Campbell
Book Chapter
Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12 (Book Sample)
This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class” to “we need to figure out why or how things happen in the world.” Using the book�...
Web Seminar
The Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge Competition recognizes exceptional and innovative science educators for their exemplary approaches to science lab instruction utilizing limited school and laboratory resources. The competition also raises awar...
Web Seminar
Shell Science Teaching Award: This award recognizes one outstanding classroom science teacher (K–12) who has had a positive impact on his or her students, school, and community through exemplary classroom science teaching. K–12 classroo...
Web Seminar
This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing secondary-level safer science/STEM laboratory activities. The presenters will be Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/Specialist and Dire...
Web Seminar
This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing elementary-level safer science/STEM classroom/laboratory activities. Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/Specialist and Director of Envi...