Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 2026

Page | November 2025

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 2026 In the award-winning books below, you'll find not only traditional science content but also elements of engineering and design. We hope you'll enjoy exploring science through this collection of outstanding children’s books.…

The Explore-Before-Explain Guidebook for Science Education: Creating High Quality Lessons for the Classroom and Professional Learning

NSTA Press Book | June 2025

This guidebook uses an Explore-before-Explain instructional sequence to help you facilitate the design of active meaning-making lessons in science. Author Pat Brown models and breaks down how an Explore-before…

Is It A Change?

Journal Article | January 2023

Shining Light on the Importance of Explore-Before-Explain Experiences for Early Childhood Learners

Journal Article | January 2022

Using Understanding by Design to Make the Standards Come Alive

Journal Article | October 2021

Learning the Temperature Dependency of Matter by Making Ice Cream

Journal Article | August 2021

Promoting Sensemaking

Journal Article | March 2023

Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 6–8: Structuring Lessons With the NGSS in Mind

NSTA Press Book | August 2018

Instructional Sequence Matters shows how to make simple shifts in the way you arrange and combine activities to improve student learning. It also makes it easy for you to put the NGSS into practice. After explaining why…

Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 3–5: Explore Before Explain

NSTA Press Book | November 2019

Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 3–5 is a one-stop resource that will inspire you to reimagine how you teach science in elementary school. The book discusses two popular approaches for structuring your lessons:…

Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 9–12: Explore-Before-Explain in Physical Science

NSTA Press Book | April 2021

Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 9–12 is the one-stop resource that will inspire you to reimagine your approach to high school physical science. The book discusses the 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and…

The Effect of Online Instruction in an Introductory Anatomy and Physiology Course and Implications for Online Laboratory Instruction in Health Field Prerequisites

Journal Article | April 2021

Education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is increasingly online, even the laboratory components of STEM courses. As online laboratory education trends upward in terms of enrollment and variety of…

Leadership Matters

Journal Article | July 2023

Arguing About a Chemical Change

Journal Article | February 2020

Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction