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Journal Article
By Aisling Leavy, Mairéad Hourigan, Anne O’Dwyer, Claire Carroll, Edward Corry, and Miriam Hamilton
Lesson Plan
What Do You Know About Volcanoes and Earthquakes?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plate tectonic features and events. The probe is designed to uncover commonly held misconceptions about volcanoes and earthquakes. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s natural resources. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable natural resources. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
Lesson Plan
Are They Talking About Climate or Weather?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about climate. The probe is designed to find out whether students distinguish between weather and climate. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the Sun and stars. The probe is designed to uncover students’ ideas about the nature of stars and their recognition that the Sun is an average star, but much closer to us tha...
By Page Keeley and Cary Sneider
Journal
Science Scope—September/October 2021
Volume 45, Number 1 September/October 2021 What can you do to promote creative thinking in your classroom? Consider a project-based learning approach and involve your students in competitions, science fairs, and engineering tasks. Connect the...
Journal
Science Scope—November/December 2021
Volume 45, Number 2 November/December 2021 The Importance of Professional Development Nearly all teachers participate in professional development (PD), much of which is mandated by individual states and school districts....
Journal
The Science Teacher—September/October 2021
Volume 89, Number 1 September/October 2021 In this social justice-themed issue, we look at examples of educators implementing lessons, labs, and activities that make classrooms more critically-just places. Their work is to be applauded and em...
Journal
Science and Children—November/December 2021
Volume 59, Number 2 In this issue of Science and Children, we explore ways to support science learning and language acquisition for all students. Whether through questioning, assistive technology, scientific modeling, or guided exploration,...
Journal
Science and Children—September/October 2021
Volume 59, Number 1 September/October 2021 In this issue of Science and Children, we focus on how teachers plan for and implement three-dimensional lessons for a wide variety of topics for all grades....
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about weather versus climate. The probe is designed to find out if students distinguish between a one-time weather-related change and a change in climate. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
Lesson Plan
What Happens When You Bring a Balloon Near Wall
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about electrical interactions. The probe is designed to find out how students visually represent electrical interactions. ...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density. The probe is designed to find out whether students have commonly held ideas about mass, volume, shape, and other properties that interfere with their conceptual unders...
By Page Keeley and Susan Cooper
Journal Article
Science Teaching Goes Global with State Department Support
By Betsy Devlin-Foltz and Maxine Pitter Lunn
Journal
Journal of College Science Teaching—July/August 2021
July/August 2021 Volume 50, Number 6 View the NSTA Digital Edition ...
Journal Article
Modeling Magnetism With the Floating Paper Clip
By Sarah Braden, Lauren Barth-Cohen, Sara Gailey, and Tamara Young
Journal Article
By Kathy-Uyen Nguyen, Andrew R. Ratchford, Jason L. Painter, Rachael Polmanteer, Ann E. Norcross, and Jonathan S. Lindsey
Journal Article
Integrating Crosscutting Concepts and Literacy Strategies to Support Visual Literacy
By Eric Brunsell, Elizabeth D. Alderton, and Josh Morris
Journal Article
Using Big Data to Understand the History of Planet Earth
By Peggy Mansfield McNeal and Elizabeth Cordle
Journal Article
Drawing to Learn to Draw Out Student Understanding
By Christine Karlberg, Laura Henriques, and Alan Colburn
Web Seminar
Explore-before-Explain teaching is all about creating conceptual coherence for learners to better prepare students for the reality of their world. ...
Journal Article
How Can We Use and Interact With Graphs Better? (Data Literacy 101)
By Kristin Hunter-Thomson
Journal Article
By Rundong Jiang, Chenglu Li, Xudong Huang, Shannon Sung, and Charles Xie