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Journal Article
Using Authentic Data to Enhance Middle School Atmospheric Science Instruction
Engage with authentic data to explore the relationship between cloud-top height and tornado formation....
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Using the Scientific Process to Engage Students With Our Changing Planet
Explore the causes and consequences of two common forms of environmental change—nutrient pollution and invasive species....
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"Nor Any Drop to Drink": Students Engineer Solutions for Desalinating Ocean Water
Develop and test methods of small-scale desalination....
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Overcome student misconceptions—and fears—of tarantulas by introducing them into your classroom....
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Incorporate this digital sandbox in your classroom to explore the physical properties of different types of materials....
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Editor's Roundtable: 3-4-8: A Winning Combination for Science Instruction
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Guest Editorial: The Tears and Trophies of Science Competitions: Winning and Losing
An opinion piece about science competitions. In this article the authors share the results of a study on the advantages and disadvantages of science competitions—examining what students report about their ways to maximize the gains while minimizing...
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Tried and True: The Science of Bending Light
This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue uses discrepant events to learn about light refraction....
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Scope on Safety: An Ounce of Preventive Maintenance
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue provides a short list of maintenance issues and associated safety problems that might arise if the physical plant of your school laboratory is ignored....
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Scope on the Skies: You're Kidding? No, I'm Sirius!
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses having students look for, examine, and explain humor that is based on science concepts, ideas, or events....
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A series of modifications to the classic children's game of telephone helps students explore variation, inheritance, and evolution....
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Notebook prompts help second-grade students notice and reflect on change across the curriculum....
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What Happens When An Environment Changes?
Visually exploring interdependent relationships among animals, plants, and fungi within students' local context....
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Fourth- and fifth-grade students model change in human–environment interactions....
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Editor's Note: Stability and Change
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Earth's Changing Surface
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue shows how to help children understand the crosscutting concept Stability and Change by looking at changes to the Earth's surface over time....
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Formative Assessment Probes: No More Plants
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to uncover students' ideas about interdependency and change....
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Methods and Strategies: Garden-Based Learning: It's Just the Berries!
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes indoor and outdoor experiences that engage students in plant science....
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Science 101: How Does Stable Equilibrium Differ From Other Kinds of Equilibrium?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses the different types of equilibrium....
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The Early Years: Recognizing Stability and Change
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue introduces and discusses the concepts of stability and change in systems....
Book Chapter
The science department has existed in its current form for approximately 100 years. If, however, we believe that departments are places in which science teachers can begin to understand and challenge why they teach the way they do, and the imperative...
Book Chapter
Why Is Questioning a Powerful Teaching Tool?
Questioning cultivates student engagement and drives instruction throughout the learning process. It is a vital part of science and engineering. Questions challenge student thinking at key points within a lesson or unit of study to connect concepts a...
Book Chapter
How Do I Prepare for the Power of Questioning?
Involving students in the Powerful Practices model requires that you know your students as individuals and as a group. This will help create engaging questions and a collaborative environment that supports dynamic discussions, leading to purposeful l...
Book Chapter
How Do I Implement the Power of Questioning?
Sharing ideas with a partner or group helps students structure thoughts to communicate thinking and offers an opportunity for them to learn together. When you model metacognition and use a variety of questioning strategies, your students learn how to...
Interactive E-book
Interdependence of Life explores the interactions between organisms and the environments in which they live—Earth spheres, ecosystems, abiotic factors, biotic factors, populations characteristics, limiting factors, and carrying capacity—as well...
Interactive E-book
Discover the NGSS: Primer and Unit Planner is an Interactive E-book* that offers a comprehensive introduction to the Next Generation Science Standards. All told, the e-book offers up to 40 hours of interactive professional learning and covers backgr...
eBook
Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science (e-book)
What do you get when you bring together two of NSTA’s bestselling authors to ponder ways to deepen students’ conceptual understanding of science? A fascinating combination of deep thinking about science teaching, field-tested strategies you can u...
eBook
The BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Creating Teachable Moments (e-book)
With this book, you can stop wishing you could engage your students more fully and start engaging. Magic moments no longer have to be random. The BSCS 5E Instructional Model can help you create more teachable moments in your classroom....
NSTA Press Book
The Power of Questioning: Guiding Student Investigations
This pedagogical picture book is a powerful tool in a small package....
By Julie V. McGough, Lisa M. Nyberg
eBook
The Power of Questioning: Guiding Student Investigations (e-book)
This pedagogical picture book is a powerful tool in a small package....