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Science Scope—March/April 2022
March/April 2022 Volume 45, Number 4 This issue of Science Scope focuses on implicit bias in the science classroom. No matter how good we are at teaching to the standards, central to the success of our lessons is classroom community....
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Science and Children—March/April 2022
March/April 2022 Volume 59, Number 4 Water in Our World: Where is there a time when water isn’t essential? Water plays an indispensable role in our very existence, and its properties are almost magical in its abilit...
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Journal of College Science Teaching—March/April 2022
March/April 2022 Volume 51, Number 4 This issue of JCST continues to focus on virtual learning, offering features such as: A Perfect Storm: How Differences in Privilege and Power Can Lead to Subtle but Potent Inequities in STEM Education ...
Web Seminar
In this web seminar, leaders in science teacher education will share the latest syntheses of research on preparing elementary and secondary science teachers and cultivating science teacher leadership. Presenters are authors of chapters in the forthco...
Web Seminar
According to the K-12 Framework for Science Education, “any education in science and engineering needs to develop students’ ability to read and produce domain-specific text. As such, every science or engineering lesson is in part a language lesso...
Web Seminar
Every day NOAA scientists, technicians, and engineers work to monitor, understand, and predict environmental threats facing our nation. Among the most serious of these is sea level rise. Rising sea levels are pushin...
Journal Article
Critical Consciousness in Engineering for Sustainable Communities
By Geling Xu, Aerin Benavides, Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan, Selena Bliesener, Gina DiFrancesco, and Scott Calabrese Barton
Journal Article
Place-Based Cases: Museum Collaboration Develops Mock Trial CSI Cases
By Linda Rost, Brittany Hoversland, and Melissa Rost
eBook
Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms (e-book)
Now Available for Preorder! Thinking made visible: That’s what happens when elementary students record their thoughts in science notebooks. This practical guide shows how notebooks can become a tangible record of their emerging understanding of ...
Web Seminar
Archive: Sponsored Web Seminar: Authentic Student-to-Student Discourse, March 28, 2022
What does it look and sound like when students are engaged in authentic science discussions for a variety of different purposes as they work to figure out phenomena?...
Web Seminar
Sponsored Archive: The Power of High Quality Instructional Materials in Middle School, May 12, 2022
It is complex work to create developmentally appropriate learning sequences that meet the NGSS’ expectations for phenomena-based storylines that address all three dimensions! Research-based and field-tested instructional materials allow teachers to...
Web Seminar
Want a bite-size way to present at NSTA? Come learn about the two new, low-stress presentation options at NSTA Chicago and dip your toes into sharing your work. You’ll learn tips from the NSTA Professional Learning Committee, h...
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: NOAA - Observing and Understanding Earth Systems, November 3, 2022
Together we will explore all the places where we can find NOAA employees and how this federal agency allows us to observe and understand Earth systems - from the surface of the Sun to the depths of the Ocean. Do not miss it! All individuals receiv...
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Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: Underwater Sound in our National Marine Sanctuaries, June 2, 2022
SanctSound is a three-year project, managed by NOAA and the U.S. Navy, to better understand underwater sound within our national marine sanctuaries. The goal of the SanctSound project is to understand how sound varies in the ocean by collecting the s...
Web Seminar
Archive: Book Beat Live! Social Justice in the Science Classroom, March 16, 2022
Science classes are diverse places where students bring many identities to the learning experiences being shared by their science teachers. All students bring different lived experiences to our classrooms. It is imperative we honor their identities a...
Lesson Plan
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: Exploring Seamounts of the Atlantic and Pacific, June 23, 2022
Our ocean is filled with numerous seamounts, guyots, and other volcanic features that profoundly influence tectonics, ecosystems, and ocean currents. NOAA Ocean Exploration seeks to characterize these features and their influences on our planet’s o...
Journal
Journal of College Science Teaching—January/February 2022
Volume 51, Number 3 This issue includes a special section on the shift to online instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Lesson Plan
By Scott E. Grapin, Daniel Wendel, Alison Haas, and Okhee Lee
Lesson Plan
By Scott E. Grapin, Daniel Wendel, Alison Haas, and Okhee Lee
Lesson Plan
How Can Computational Modeling Help Explain the Spread of COVID-19?
By Scott E. Grapin, Daniel Wendel, Alison Haas, and Okhee Lee
NSTA Press Book
Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms
Thinking made visible: That’s what happens when elementary students record their thoughts in science notebooks. This practical guide shows how notebooks can become a tangible record of their emerging understanding of and proficiency in science. Stu...
By Jessica Fries-Gaither
Journal Article
Is a Framework of Support Enough?
While undergraduate research is known as a high-impact practice, little research has been conducted for the online educational setting. Early research suggests that online students and faculty have similar interest in undergraduate research as their ...
By Emily Faulconer, Brent Terwilliger, Robert Deters, and Kelly George
Journal Article
Instruction that increases acceptance of evolution is essential to effective biology instruction, but instruction about evolution is not consistently correlated with increased levels of acceptance. Does the pedagogical approach utilized make the diff...
By Clinton Thomas Laidlaw, Seth M. Bybee, Steven Shumway, Thomas Heath Ogden, Steven Peck, and Jamie L. Jensen
Journal Article
As change agents at our university, we sought to facilitate a transition within our STEM college toward more extensive use of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs) that promote student-centered learning. We sought a multifaceted approach for...
By Richard E. West, Jamie L. Jensen, Michael Johnson, Jennifer Nielson, Rebecca Sansom, and Geoffrey Wright
Journal Article
Examining Perspectives of Teaching Among Biology Teaching Assistants
Recent reform efforts in postsecondary science teaching have called for shifts in instructional methods to include more evidence-based instructional practices. However, a myriad of factors play a role in whether an instructor adopts these more studen...
By Joshua W. Reid and Emily G. Weigel
Journal Article
Integrated Concentration in Science
The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) 4-year program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was designed to promote interdisciplinary STEM collaboration in the solution of real-world problems and encourage student independence and inter...
By Stephanie Purington and Martina Nieswandt
Journal Article
E–6 Preservice Teachers and Elementary Science Teaching
The study assessed the science teaching confidence of preservice teachers in teaching elementary science by addressing two research questions: (1) Did preservice teachers understand the science concepts well enough to be effective in teaching element...
By Mamta Singh
Journal Article
A Flipped Classroom Approach and Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Molecular Biology Course
Teaching modalities such as Flipped Classroom Approach (FCA) are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. FCA requires that instructional content is completed outside the classroom, thus allowing active-learning activities to take place in ...
By Andreas Kakarougkas and Reham Abdellatif
Lesson Plan
Journal Article
Exploring the Effects of a Neglected Area
One of the major challenges of teaching science has been engaging students in discussions of concepts due to lack of perceived relevancy of topics to students’ individual goals and societal issues. Science has been viewed as a set of abstract topic...
By Emma Tribble, Rohan Skariah, Emily Tran, and Ozcan Gulacar
Journal Article
Gender Inequities Throughout STEM
Efforts to promote equity and inclusion using evidence-based approaches are vital to correcting long-standing societal inequities that have disadvantaged women and discouraged them from pursuing studies, including in many STEM disciplines. We used 10...
By Alexandru Maries, Kyle Whitcomb, and Chandralekha Singh