Talking About Forces

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students generally identify forces as pushes and pulls.

Where Does Digestion Occur?

Lesson Plan | July 2020

What Happened to Our Ice?

Lesson Plan | April 2020

Why Is Ocean Water Warming Faster in Some Places Than Others?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

Why Do Some Cities Currently Have Dust Storms and Others Do Not?

Lesson Plan | February 2022

Conference Sessions on Equity, Teacher Collaboration Provide Benefits

Blog Post | June 2021

New NSTA Guide Helps Fifth-Grade Teachers Make the Instructional Shift to Argument-Driven Inquiry

Press Release | September 2020

Why Does Some Food Disappear?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

From Scatterplots to Stories: Uncovering Patterns in Messy, Real-World Data Sets

Blog Post | July 2026

Looking Back and Moving Forward: How Daily Dos Are a Place to Start

Blog Post | June 2020

New Edition of NSTA’s Uncovering Student Ideas Book Includes Probes in English and Spanish, Plus Other Updates

Press Release | March 2021

How Does Some Corn Pop?

Lesson Plan | July 2020

Why Does The Can Come Back?

Lesson Plan | September 2020

Catching a Cold

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about infectious disease. The probe is designed to find out whether students use the germ theory to explain what causes an infectious disease like the…

Why is Niagara Falls moving?

Lesson Plan | September 2020