Incorporating Student-Centered Learning in an Ecosystems Course

Journal Article | October 2021

Student-centered learning broadly encompasses teaching approaches that shift the focus of instruction from teacher to student by placing an emphasis on what as well as how students want to learn. This approach allows…

Interdisciplinary Lessons on Energy and Entropy

Journal Article | May 2022

This article presents ideas and narratives of an experiment on the concept of energy developed for an honors seminar on energy and a mechanics course. We argue that energy is an idea best taught in an interdisciplinary…

Earth Watch

Journal Article | April 2021

Poetry Celebrates Science and Culture

Journal Article | February 2021

Does This Count as Work?

Journal Article | July 2022

Focusing the Lens of the Crosscutting Concepts on Secondary Science Learning

Journal Article | March 2022

Arctic Feedbacks: Not All Warming Is Equal

Journal Article | March 2022

Resource Center

Page | August 2026

Resource Center Explore tools, lessons, organizations, research, and professional learning opportunities collected by NSTA and other partners from across the science education community.Access Hundreds of Lesson Plans & Resources with Your MembershipFind Resources by NGSS Standard…

Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning

Journal Article | July 2020

Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is revealed in correlations between (1) opinions…

Open Innovation Challenge to Mitigate Global Warming

Journal Article | September 2023

Using a Game to Teach Invasive Species Spread and Management

Journal Article | January 2023

Invasive species are a major ecological and economic problem at the global scale, and education plays a major role in raising awareness and combating these species’ future spread. There are complex management and…

Where on Earth Is Mars?

Journal Article | November 2022

Modifying Scientific Research Into Introductory Science Course Lessons Using a 5E Lesson Format

Journal Article | December 2020

Science faculty are being asked to create active learning experiences that engage students in core concepts and science practices. This article describes an approach to developing active learning lessons from authentic…

GENERATE: The Game of Energy Choices

Journal Article | June 2021

Science Identity Matters

Journal Article | March 2022