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Read NSTA's award-winning, peer-reviewed practitioner journal for middle level and junior high school science teachers.
Current Issue
July/August 2021
Visual Literacy
A staple of 21st-century skills, visual literacy is addressed in several Common Core State Standards, but the skills associated with visual literacy are also essential to the sciences. Today’s students have constant access to websites and videos that require visual literacy skills if they are to be a critical consumer of media. Scientists, too, live in a visual world in which they are required to interpret, analyze, and evaluate visual materials.
Journal Article
How Can We Use and Interact With Graphs Better? (Data Literacy 101)
By Kristin Hunter-Thomson
Journal Article
Drawing to Learn to Draw Out Student Understanding
By Christine Karlberg, Laura Henriques, and Alan Colburn
Journal Article
Using Big Data to Understand the History of Planet Earth
By Peggy Mansfield McNeal and Elizabeth Cordle
Journal Article
Integrating Crosscutting Concepts and Literacy Strategies to Support Visual Literacy
By Eric Brunsell, Elizabeth D. Alderton, and Josh Morris
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