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Web Seminar
Are you ready to transform your district’s STEM program? Administrators face the unique challenge of balancing the immediate need to meet today’s learning standards with the equally important task of planning for the future demands ...
Web Seminar
NSTA/ASTE Archive: Addressing Science Teacher Retention, April 7, 2025
In this web seminar, a panel of science teacher educators/researchers identify reasons teachers leave the profession, elicit challenges from participants, and present current research in addressing these challenges. All individuals receive a certifi...
Web Seminar
IL: Introduction to OpenSciEd, for K-12 Educators, January 28, 2025
Join us on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Central time, for an introduction to OpenSciEd. Get acquainted with the OpenSciEd K-12 curriculum! Learn how the research-based curriculum design makes it possible for all students to acc...
Web Seminar
NSTA Class Bundle Orientation for Preservice Teachers and Instructors, January 28, 2025
Your instructor has selected the NSTA Class Bundle to use in class this semester. The NSTA Class Bundle includes access to the National Science Teaching Association's lesson plans, journal articles, member web seminars and more! Participate in this ...
Web Seminar
NSTA Class Bundle Orientation for Preservice Teachers and Instructors, January 16, 2025
Your instructor has selected the NSTA Class Bundle to use in class this semester. The NSTA Class Bundle includes access to the National Science Teaching Association's lesson plans, journal articles, member web seminars and more! Participate in this ...
Web Seminar
Archive: Scaling Up for STEM 2025 Fellowship Orientation
Participants will learn about: Overview of the program's mission, vision, and values. Get aquainted with the team! The program's unique features and benefits of participation. Earning professional learning clock hours through the program....
Web Seminar
Archive Science Update: Energy: The Push From Non-Renewable to Renewable Sources, April 24, 2025
The global energy demand has increased nearly exponentially in the last century and is projected to increase at a similar rate in the future. Yet the finite qualities of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions make many non-renewable energy sources (including...
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: Space Weather: The Sun, Earth, and You, December 4, 2025
The Sun is constantly churning and bubbling. In addition to the radiation that supports life on Earth, the Sun often releases particles energetic enough to harm Earth-based and near-Earth assets. Just like meteorologists are able to interpret weather...
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











