Join-
Page |
Fields of STEM Purpose StatementThe Fields of STEM program provides STEM educators from the Midwest an opportunity to leverage the collective expertise of the cohort and the latest relevant research to improve K-12 STEM education and workforce development in their local and global communities. A key…
-
Journal Article |
Understanding of evolution is foundational to be a scientifically literate citizen because it allows analysis of socioscientific issues, such as biodiversity conservation, biotechnology applications, and human-induced…
-
Multimodal Text Sets to Use Literature and Engage All Learners in the Science Classroom
Journal Article |
-
NSTA Sensemaking Professional Learning Packages
Page |
NSTA Sensemaking Professional Learning Packages Empower educators. Transform instruction. Engage all learners.NSTA’s professional learning offerings support the shift from traditional, content-driven teaching to phenomenon-based, three-dimensional science instruction. Whether you're…
-
Integrating nonfiction chapter books into a science unit
Journal Article |
Bringing other subjects into the classroom
-
Journal Article |
Concept maps make connections between ideas apparent, and thus would seem ideally suited to demonstrate learning. Yet, they are not widely used by instructors, particularly in large university classes. In this paper we…
-
Teaching About How Scientists Work—With a Focus on Claims-Evidence-Reasoning
Blog Post |
-
NSTA District Professional Learning Packages
Page |
NSTA District Professional Learning Packages Transform Science Education at Scale with NSTAWe support districts in empowering educators and advancing student learning through custom strategies—including professional learning centered on sensemaking, leadership development, and the…
-
Focus on Physics: How E = mc2 Helps Us Understand Nuclear Fission and Fusion
Blog Post |
Nuclear physics has an undeserved reputation for being tough for students. This article may reduce this “toughness” by showing how Einstein’s familiar equation E = mc2 relates to the reductions in mass and enormous…
-
Page |
Due to ongoing health and safety concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Science Teaching Association has decided to cancel the fall 2020 Area Conferences on Science Education. The face-to-face meetings…
-
What Makes Them Tick? Middle School Data Science Explorations of Ticks and Lyme Disease
Journal Article |
-
Journal Article |
-
How Can We Motivate Our Science Students?
Journal Article |
Notes from the field editor
-
Page |
Learning Disabilities A learning disability (LD) is a neurological disorder that causes difficulty in organizing information received, remembering it, and expressing it, and therefore affects a person's basic functions such as reading, writing, comprehension, and reasoning. In simple terms, a…
-
Journal Article |
While research has demonstrated the links between active learning and student success, lecture remains a dominant instructional method within introductory STEM courses. In this project, we used the strategy of…
1605 Results