Call for Papers: Science and Children

Page | January 2020

Call for Papers: Science and Children Upcoming ThemesSeptember/October 2026: What Is Science? (Deadline: December 1, 2025)Science is so much more than just facts and experiments—it is a way of thinking, questioning, and making sense of the world. But how do we help young learners…

Bookstore

Page | September 2019

Explore high-quality tools to transform your teaching in NSTA Press books, including lesson plans, classroom strategies, relevant professional learning, assessment, and NGSS resources for K–12 science educators.

Enrichment for All

Journal Article | September 2020

Why Does the Moon Look Like That Again?

Journal Article | September 2020

Extending Engineering Learning Beyond Field Trips

Journal Article | September 2020

Fact or Fiction

Journal Article | December 2020

A Web of Ideas

Journal Article | February 2020

Building Bridges

Journal Article | December 2020

We describe a hands-on, collaborative activity designed to illustrate general properties of evolution, provide practice for quantitative skills, promote creativity and collaboration, and enable student self-assessment…

Designing to Disrupt Traditional Conceptions of Scientific Competence

Journal Article | August 2020

Pervasive narratives about who and what counts as competent in science disproportionately impact students historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and are perpetuated in the…

Course-Based Research in the First Semester of College

Journal Article | April 2020

Undergraduate students are increasingly aware of complex global challenges and have a strong desire to take action and create change. Course-based undergraduate research experiences can offer a wide range of students…

The SAEBL Checklist

Journal Article | August 2020

Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning

Journal Article | December 2020

This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…

Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers

Journal Article | December 2020

National science education documents emphasize new learning outcomes of elementary students; therefore, the preparation of elementary teachers should be revised to meet these challenges. This article describes how…

The Water in Weberville

Case Study | May 2017

Who Does Science?

Journal Article | August 2020