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Journal Article
DCIs, SEPs, and CCs, Oh My! Understanding the Three Dimensions of the NGSS
Learn how the Next Generation Science Standards seek to advance science teaching and learning....
Journal Article
Using a STEM-Based Approach to Make Recycling Metallic Elements Relevant
Integrate science, math, and engineering to solve a real-world problem....
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Editor's Roundtable: Interdisciplinary Teaching
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
Journal Article
Tried and True: Using Observations of Fossils to Reconstruct Ancient Environments
This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. In this month’s issue the authors describe how to foster students' understanding of observation-based data by sharing a 5E learning-cycle lesson that integrates scientifi...
Journal Article
Teacher's Toolkit: Bridging the Three Dimensions of the NGSS Using the Nature of Science
This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue describes a process for modifying and implementing published lessons to explicitly teach nature of science so that students can be engaged in di...
Journal Article
Scope on Safety: Safer Science Kits
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the safety concerns regarding science activity kits....
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Scope on the Skies: Standing on Their Shoulders
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses how to humanize groundbreaking scientists and explorers....
Journal Article
Teaching the Manhattan Project
Bringing literacy in civic science to the chemistry class....
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William Smith's Mapping Milestone
An interactive historical vignette celebrating the bicentennial of the first national geologic map....
Journal Article
Arranging cards to build an organizational model of the elements....
Journal Article
Exploring the nature of science using a historical debate about glaciers....
Journal Article
Using primary sources to address a fundamental question....
Journal Article
DCIs, SEPs, and CCs, Oh My! Understanding the Three Dimensions of the NGSS
Learn how the Next Generation Science Standards seek to advance science teaching and learning....
Journal Article
Editor's Corner: The Nature of Science
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
Journal Article
Science 2.0: Build Your Professional Network
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue looks at how to build a professional development and resource network using social media....
Journal Article
The Green Room: The Global Water Crisis
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue talks about activities and videos that relate to the availability of clean water....
Journal Article
Health Wise: Meeting Students' Special Needs
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 how teachers can make accommodations for their special needs students....
Journal Article
Idea Bank: Exploring the History of Science With Movies
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank describes resources that can help teachers integrate the stories of scientists' lives into core content....
Journal Article
Career of the Month: Science and Technology Librarian
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Louise Deis's career path to becoming a science and technology librarian....
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Safer Science: Safety in the Field
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses field trip safety....
Book Chapter
Lab 12. Explanations for Animal Behavior: Why Do Great White Sharks Travel Over Long Distances?
Shark populations worldwide are declining in areas where they were once common. As a result, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has classified many species of shark as threatened with extinction. One species of shark that is c...
NSTA Kids
Next Time You See a Spiderweb (Library binding)
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!...
NSTA Kids
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!...
Book Chapter
Interactive E-book
The Electric and Magnetic Forces Interactive E-book* uses everyday events and items, like lightning, flashlights, batteries, compasses, and maglev trains, to examine electricity and magnetism. It provides detailed explanations of key science concepts...
Interactive E-book
Most of what goes on in the universe—from exploding stars and biological growth to the operation of machines and the motion of people—involves energy being transformed from one form into other forms....
eBook
Teaching Energy Across the Sciences, K-12 (e-book)
It’s a simple fact: Students will learn about energy more effectively if teachers present it consistently in all grades and across all scientific disciplines. This book gives you the strategies and tools you need to help your students understand en...
eBook
Solar Science: Exploring Sunspots, Seasons, Eclipses, and More (e-book)
This is just the resource you need to get middle schoolers ready for August 21, 2017—the day when millions of North Americans will have the rare chance to witness a total solar eclipse. But the book’s usefulness won’t end when the eclipse does!...
Interactive E-book
The Coral Reef Ecosystems Interactive E-book* explores the structure and inhabitants of a living reef. From the anatomy and reproduction of corals, to their interdependence on other inhabitants of the reef, to the impact of disasters on a reef ecosys...
Interactive E-book
The Cell Structure and Function Interactive E-book* explores how cells, the basic building blocks of all organisms, function as systems of organelles and associated structures in a dynamic equilibrium between their internal and external environments....