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Journal Article
The Case of Lobster Shell Disease
The authors combined content-driven and inquiry-based lessons into the framework of problem-based learning. These older elementary students explored a local problem of lobsters infected by lobster shell disease....
Journal Article
Editor's Note: Assessment: Learning Under Construction
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
Journal Article
Editor's Roundtable: Going Native
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
Journal Article
NSTA Recommends reviewers suggest science books to refresh your spirit and renew your professional skills....
Journal Article
Science 2.0: PD on a Shoestring
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue describes inexpensive or free professional development opportunities by listing webinars, videos, podcasts, and more that are available online....
Journal Article
In this article the authors discuss several assessment strategies that you can use and adapt for inquiry-based science units, using the example of a weeklong fifth-grade unit about owls and owl pellets....
Journal Article
Using Technology in the Classroom
The author describes how she has come to use technology in her classroom over the years. Her main topics include using the internet, experiencing podcasts, using technology for assessment, and recording results from science research....
Journal Article
Using Period Table Live! pushes students to think critically and helps them learn the period trends in properties....
Journal Article
The Green Room: A Sense of Place
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. In this month’s issue, the author discusses how to create a sense of place for your students....
Journal Article
Science 101: What causes a charge to move from one substance to another?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the author describes how to build a primitive electroscope to show charge transfer....
Class Pack
Using Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Expanded 2nd Edition in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great dea...
Class Pack
*LAST CHANCE! This product is not eligible for return or exchange. All sales are final.* Using Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Expanded 2nd Edition Lessons in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class...
eBook
Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 1: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes (e-book)
Author Page Keeley continues to provide K–12 teachers with her highly usable and popular formula for uncovering and addressing the preconceptions that students bring to the classroom—the formative assessment probe—in this first book devoted exc...
eBook
Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion (e-book)
Never has it been so easy for educators to learn to teach physical science with confidence. Award-winning author Bill Robertson launched his bestselling Stop Faking It! series in 2002 with Force and Motion—offering elementary and middle school te...
eBook
Gourmet Lab: The Scientific Principles Behind Your Favorite Foods (e-book)
Hands-on, inquiry-based, and relevant to every student’s life, Gourmet Lab serves up a full menu of activities for science teachers of grades 6–12. This collection of 15 hands-on experiments—each of which includes a full set of both student and...
eBook
Yet More Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching (e-book)
In the fourth book of this award-winning series, author Richard Konicek-Moran explores 15 new mysteries children and adults encounter in their daily lives. Relating the mysteries to experiences familiar to elementary and middle school students—Part...
eBook
Welcome to Nanoscience: Interdisciplinary Environmental Explorations, Grades 9–12 (e-book)
In a society where technology plays an ever-increasing role, students’ ability to understand the underlying science and make smart social and environmental decisions based on that knowledge is crucial. Welcome to Nanoscience helps biology, chemistr...
eBook
Hard-to-Teach Science Concepts: A Framework to Support Learners, Grades 3–5 (e-book)
Authors Susan Koba and Carol Mitchell introduce teachers of grades 3–5 to their conceptual framework for successful instruction of hard-to-teach science concepts. Their methodology comprises four steps: (1) engage students about their preconception...
eBook
Project Earth Science: Astronomy, Revised 2nd Edition (e-book)
How well can your students … • Illustrate the reason for Earth’s seasons? • Explain how far a light year is? • Simulate the phases of the Moon? • Describe the effects of greenhouse gases? • Connect astronomy to other Earth sys...
eBook
Project Earth Science: Geology, Revised 2nd Edition (e-book)
How well can your students … • Explain the distribution of earthquakes? • Model volcanic eruptions? • Demonstrate plate motions and interactions? • Describe seafloor changes? • Think in terms of geologic time? ...
eBook
Schoolyard Science: 101 Easy and Inexpensive Activities (e-book)
With 101 easy and inexpensive activities to do on school grounds, Schoolyard Science can help students develop their observation and inquiry skills as well as an appreciation of their outdoor environment. Covering topics such as lower plants, gardens...
eBook
Team Teaching Science: Success for All Learners (e-book)
In Team Teaching Science, Ed Linz, Mary Jane Heater, and Lori A. Howard demonstrate the truth in the old adage “Two heads are better than one.” This guide for developing successful team-teaching partnerships that maximize student learning will h...
NSTA Press Book
Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion
Never has it been so easy for educators to learn to teach physical science with confidence. Award-winning author Bill Robertson launched his bestselling Stop Faking It! series with Force and Motion—offering elementary and middle school teachers a j...
By William C. Robertson, Ph.D.
Book Chapter
It is not difficult to think of reasons why it is important for students to understand that a round globe represents our planet. After all, Earth is our home in space. Environmentalists remind us that it’s the only home we have, so it’s importa...
Book Chapter
This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about motion. Activities include Time to Roll, Describing Motion, Different Speeds, and Evaluation. ...
Book Chapter
This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s Third Law. Activities include Push Back, Newton’s Third Law, Exploding Canisters and Evaluation. ...
Book Chapter
This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about adding directions and vectors. Activities include Direction Matters and Vector Application....