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Journal Article
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....
Journal Article
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....
Journal Article
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
Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science
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...
By Richard Konicek-Moran, Page Keeley
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....
eBook
NGSS For All Students (e-book)
It’s challenging to teach science well to all students while connecting your lessons to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This unique book portrays real teaching scenarios written by the teachers on the NSGS Diversity and Equity Team. T...