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Models and Approaches to STEM Professional Development (e-book)

The arrival of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) makes it the ideal time to kick-start your professional development program, and this ambitious book is the perfect source of inspiration to help you do so....

eBook

The Basics of Data Literacy: Helping Your Students (and You!) Make Sense of Data (e-book)

Here’s the ideal statistics book for teachers with no statistics background. Written in an informal style with easy-to-grasp examples, The Basics of Data Literacy teaches you how to help your students understand data. Then, in turn, they learn how ...

Book Chapter

The Importance of Viable Models in the Construction of Professional Development

With the release of the Framework and the NGGS, we have the opportunity to improve the teaching and learning of science and to help move our nation forward by providing all students with the depth of understanding of big ideas, scientific and enginee...

Journal Article

Assessing for Achievement

Formative assessments are woven throughout a series of lessons structured upon the 5E Instructional Model....

Journal Article

Scoring a Goal for Learning

Initiating formative assessment practices in kindergarten informs teaching and learning....

Journal Article

Crystal Clear Assessment

Techniques for rich, authentic asssessment are revealed through a polymer gel spheres project....

Journal Article

Simply Performance Assessment

A fourth-grade lesson on simple machines integrates performance assessment tasks....

Journal Article

... And Action!

Using science skits to evaluate students' understanding of science concepts....

Journal Article

Seeing the Science

A rubric helps to examine written science observations of second-grade English language learners....

Journal Article

Editor's Note: Seamless Assessment

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

Elementary General Science Assessment Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Teaching Through Trade Books: Pondering Plants

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue has students exploring the physical structure of a plant, how a plant grows, and what a plant actually is....

Early Childhood Elementary Life Science Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies

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The Early Years: Are They Getting It?

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses formative assessment....

Early Childhood Elementary Physical Science Assessment Lesson Plans Performance Expectations Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Melting? Formative Assessment for Teacher Learning

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the author explores how the formative assessment probe "Is It Melting?" was used to confront teachers with their own alternative conceptions and help them reconstru...

Journal Article

Engineering Encounters: Engineer It, Learn It: Science and Engineering Practices in Action

Step into an elementary classroom to see what Next Generation Science Standards practices look like....

Elementary Engineering STEM Science and Engineering Practices

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Science 101: What Is the Physics Behind Simple Machines?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the author discusses simple machines....

Journal Article

Methods and Strategies: The Sun Is a Star?

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue helps students connect scientifically correct ideas to what makes sense to them....