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Apple in the Dark

By Page Keeley

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The Early Years: Discovering Their Sense of the World

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue aims to engage children in a project-based learning experience....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool STEM Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices

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The Poetry of Science: Solving Problems

Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways....

Elementary General Science Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Literacy

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From Facts to Solutions

Fifth graders turn knowledge about the science behind climate change into real-world solutions and advocate for them to their broader community....

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Problem-Based Paleontology

A STEAM exploration for fourth graders...

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Got Energy?

Fourth graders explore energy independence....

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City Planners at Work

Fourth graders research an ideal location for their garden....

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NGSS Lesson Adaptations

By Kevin Cherbow, Katherine McNeill, Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Megan McKinley, and Benjamin Lowell

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President's Message: NSTA's 75th

A celebration of NSTA's 75th anniversary....

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Point of View: There Is a Difference Between Engagement and Understanding

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This issue focuses on the difference between engagement and understanding....

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A Faculty Development Model for Transforming a Department’s Laboratory Curriculum With Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences

The authors of this article describe how their Department of Biological Sciences redesigned 12 existing laboratory courses using the principal design elements of course-based undergraduate research experiences....

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Communities by Design: An Age-Friendly Multidisciplinary Course Integrating the Physical and Social Sciences

This article describes a multidisciplinary course that uses information from the physical and social sciences to examine age-friendly community problems and solutions....

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Virtual Storm Chase: Bringing the Atmospheric Sciences to Life Through an Interactive Case Study

An in-class case study is presented for use in a liberal arts core extreme weather course, designed to foster science literacy, appreciation, and critical thinking skills in nonscience majors....

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Case Study: The Chef Returns: A Recipe for Writing Great Case Studies

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This issue provides a recipe for writing great case studies....

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Research and Teaching: It’s Not Just for Points: Teacher Justifications and Student Perceptions About Active Learning

This article examines teacher justifications and student perceptions about active learning....

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Research and Teaching: Graduate TA Teaching Behaviors Impact Student Achievement in a Research-Based Undergraduate Science Course

A look at the influence of graduate teaching assistants' teaching behaviors on student achievement in a research-based undergraduate science course....

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Research and Teaching: Growing a Learning Assistant Program: Using Perceptions to Inform Improvement

The authors describe a study used to gather learning assistant and faculty member perceptions to understand if programmatic goals of learning assistant programs are being met....

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Research and Teaching: PowerPoint Use in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom: Perceptions and Impacts on Student Learning

This article focuses on the use of, and perceptions about, PowerPoint in undergraduate introductory biology classes to understand how PowerPoint composition can best promote student learning....

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Science Scope—January 2019

Not everyone lives in close proximity to an ocean, but everyone on the planet is affected by these massive bodies of water. Learn how changes in our oceans are affecting biodiversity, sea levels, and the climate with the articles found in this issue...

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Science and Children—January 2019

The concept of problem-based learning has been vigorously applied in the classroom and touted as a panacea to the traditional curriculum. This month, we take on PBL in all its iterations to share practical and applicable teaching methods and learnin...

eBook

The Beaks of Birds (e-book)

Available for Pre-order. This publication will be released in OCTOBER 2018...

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Ocean Acidification Investigation

Introduce a weak acid into a container of shells and water to help students understand the effects of ocean acidification....

Interactive E-book Kids

Fish Out of Water

Kat is a student paleontologist who uses a video chat app to communicate with readers during her expedition to visit a paleontological site in the desert of Egypt. She wants to figure out how a fossil fish came to exist at this site. Readers help Kat...

Early Childhood Elementary Informal Education Pre-service Teachers Earth & Space Science STEM Technology 5E Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary

Interactive E-book Kids

Are They the Same?

This e-book is based on the natural phenomenon that any group of plants or animals will demonstrate individual variation that allows scientists to distinguish between members of the group. In order to explore this phenomenon, we follow the journey o...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Biology Life Science STEM Technology 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy

Interactive E-book Kids

Help Me Grow

Help Me Grow is an interactive book where readers enter a forest to see how four different animals raise their young. Interactivities and questions guide readers to explore patterns and make decisions to give the young animals a better chance of surv...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy

Virtual Conference

Picture-Perfect Science Online Course, Sep 25

A Picture-Perfect Science Online Course includes: 10 hours of live and/or pre-recorded training using Zoom Video Conferencing 3 two-hour sessions with the authors and 2 two-hour sessions with a trained facilitator 1 ebook of choice from either P...

Virtual Conference

Picture-Perfect Science Online Course, Apr 3

A Picture-Perfect Science Online Course includes: 10 hours of live and/or pre-recorded training using Zoom Video Conferencing 3 two-hour sessions with the authors and 2 two-hour sessions with a trained facilitator 1 ebook of choice from either P...

Virtual Conference

Picture-Perfect Science Online Course, Jan 30

A Picture-Perfect Science Online Course includes: 10 hours of live and/or pre-recorded training using Zoom Video Conferencing 3 two-hour sessions with the authors and 2 two-hour sessions with a trained facilitator 1 ebook of choice from either P...