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Web Seminar
Science Update: Space Weather: The Sun, Earth, and You, December 4, 2025
Join us on Thursday, December 4, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about impending solar events and their potential impacts on Earth....
Web Seminar
The ocean acts like a sponge, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Increased absorption by the ocean causes changes to our ocean's chemistry from pole to pole. This is known as ocean acidification. Ocean acidification has regional and local ...
Web Seminar
Marine debris is a widespread pollution problem in our ocean and waterways. It can harm wildlife, habitats, and our economy. This issue is human-caused, but it also has human solutions. One of the best tools we have to combat marine debris is underst...
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: Exploring the Applications of Low Earth Orbit Observations, May 8, 2025
The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is a joint mission between NOAA and NASA that observes Earth and provides critical data for weather forecasting in addition to many other climate change, agriculture, aviation, and disaster monitoring applicati...
Journal Article
Cross-Curricular Connections...
By Dena Harshbarger, Elizabeth Yungdahl, Christopher Knoell, Jane Strawhacker
Journal Article
Reactions and Properties of Matter
Teaching Through Trade Books...
By Christine Anne Royce
Journal Article
Deconstructing Common Misconceptions in Early Science
The Early Years...
By Alissa A. Lange
Journal Article
Powering Up: Expansive Science Teaching
Tech Talk...
By Heather Anne Pacheco-Guffrey
Journal Article
Unlocking Expansive Learning in the Science Classroom
Explore-Before-Explain...
By Patrick Brown
Journal Article
Expansive Science Teaching Practices
Editor's Note November-December 2024...
By Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn
Journal Article
Expanding Science Knowledge through Expansive Science Teaching Practices
Guest Editorial...
By Emily Adah Miller, Ayça Fackler
Journal Article
With environmental issues and awareness rising globally, our connection to the natural world is clearly critical, but education that teaches children how to relate to local plants and animals is seemingly lacking in elementary curriculum. For an unde...
By Bria Beardsley, Karl Jung
Journal Article
This article summarizes our research findings, investigating instructional adaptations elementary science teachers make to accommodate a growing population of Karen immigrant students. Hailing from the war-torn country of Myanmar, Karen students, who...
By Ashlely Armstrong, Timothy Slater
Journal Article
This article shares the experiences of three elementary teachers who took steps to transform their roles from speakers to listeners. After participating in a professional learning (PL) project that uses science to support English language practices, ...
By Michelle Brown, Teila Hildebrand, Taylor Tarone-Sefchik, Allyson Trella, May Lee, Carla Zembal-Saul, Jennifer Cody
Journal Article
Jammin' A year-long project in which students explore and share their passions
Science learning that is connected with students’ experiences and interests has shown to be critical in fostering student enthusiasm for science and may be linked to later educational and career choices. Teachers, however, often feel pressure to te...
By Bonnie Glass, Sara Dail, Tammy Lee
Journal Article
Warming up to Inquiry: Using inquiry to teach heating and cooling of substances to 2nd graders
Starting to teach science through inquiry can be intimidating for teachers who don’t have much experience with it. Some concerns about teaching science through inquiry often come from misunderstandings of what science entails (Authors et al., 2015...
By Jesse Wilcox, Maizee Lindsey, Karissa Steinke
Journal Article
Building a Soundproof Room: A University-Elementary Collaboration
The creative opportunity inherent in developing a STEM project is a great opportunity for preservice teachers. This article outlines a project in which a Science Education professor collaborated with an elementary STEM teacher to provide background o...
By Lauren Angelone, Katherine Dykes, Rorie Smith
Journal Article
Melting Science Stereotypes with the Help of a Snowy Day
How are exploring snowy spaces, starring in children's books, and making science discoveries inextricably linked? Access to and representation in all three of these experiences have historically been inequitable....
By David Owens, Regina McCurdy
Journal Article
In a Community School located in a First Nation in Northern Ontario, grade 3 students draw on their connection with the land and their own background knowledge through a Land-Exploration-Based Approach to learn about structures and their functions. T...
By Leonora Rochwerger, Brenda Mason, Leeya Lazarovic, Miga Kim
Journal Article
Puddles to Floods: Field-based Investigations on Flooding in New Orleans
All students deserve access to field-based learning experiences where they can conduct investigations and collect data to answer their questions about the world. These opportunities are particularly important in the context of complex climate-related...
By Brooke Sprague, Claire Anderson, Karen Marshall, Jazmine Henderson, Shermaine Johnson
NSTA Kids
Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions
Click here to view video of Wild Wonderings Let your curiosity run wild! This lively book will inspire you to ask questions like scientists do. Why? Because questions can lead you to amazing discoveries. Like what? Like when theoretical physicist ...
NSTA Press Book
Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions
Click here to view video of Wild Wonderings Let your curiosity run wild! This lively book will inspire you to ask questions like scientists do. Why? Because questions can lead you to amazing discoveries. Like what? Like when theoretical physicist ...
By Jessica Fries-Gaither
Web Seminar
Archive: Making the Most of Attending an NSTA Conference - Philadelphia 2025, February 27, 2025
In this web seminar participants will learn:...
NSTA Press Book
Learning with AI: The K-12 Teacher’s Guide to a New Era of Human Learning
Unlock the Future of Education with "Learning with AI" Discover how artificial intelligence is transforming education with "Learning with AI," a pivotal co-publication from Johns Hopkins University Press and the National Science Teaching Assoc...
By Joan Monahan Watson
Web Seminar
What is inside our sun and other stars? What fills up the interstellar space? What is lightning? Trying to answer similar questions that come to the curious mind expanded our understanding of what happens to matter at high enough ...
Journal Article
Establishing a Writing Center and Why Science Teachers Need to Be in On It
To support the development of scientific literacy and student confidence in expressing their ideas and receiving feedback, the first author established a writing center in a large urban fringe high school. Using the peer-assisted learning (PAL) model...
By Althea Roy, Brooke Whitworth
Journal Article
Differentiation and Inclusivity for All
Editor's Corner Novermber/December 2024...
By Brooke Whitworth
Journal Article
Career of the Month November/December 2024...
By Luba Vangelova
Journal Article
Right to the Source November/December 2024...
By Michael Apfeldorf
Journal Article
Fact or Faux? November/December 2024...
By Gábor Zemplén, DOUGLAS ALLCHIN
Journal Article
Scaffolding an Inquiry-Based Spring Constant Activity for Differentiated Physics Instruction
This activity gives students the opportunity to design an experiment, collect data, and solve for the spring constant of different springs. The use of low-cost materials and the inquiry-based structure makes it more accessible for teachers and more e...
By Eric Lindley