Highlights From the NSTA Research Committee

Blog Post | February 2025

Changing Constellations

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about why the constellations change with the seasons. The probe is designed to find out how students use the Earth’s spin and orbit to explain why…

Exploring Earth Geoscience Processes With a Flight Over Mars

Journal Article | August 2020

Discovering Diversity

Journal Article | March 2020

I Will Survive

Journal Article | May 2022

Where Are the Volcanoes?

Journal Article | March 2023

What, Graphing Can Be Fun and Engaging This Year?!

Journal Article | July 2023

Show Your Students How to Be More Persuasive When They Write

Journal Article | July 2020

After a grueling grading campaign, a chemist asked a writing and rhetoric specialist for help improving formal reports in the introductory organic chemistry lab. Together, we realized that the very best student reports…

Project-Based Learning: Principles to Sustain Student Learning and Teacher Change in Practice - Part 2

Professional Learning Unit | September 2023

Have you wanted to implement a Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit in your classroom? Would you like to introduce PBL curriculum in your school? Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL), an open educational…

Patterns That Matter

Journal Article | January 2022

Equity for All

Journal Article | June 2020

A “Meteor” Crashed Into Our School!

Journal Article | January 2022

Transitioning from Scientific Inquiry to Three-Dimensional Teaching and Learning

Position Statement | June 2020

A Water Wheel Challenge!

Journal Article | January 2019

NGSS Lesson Adaptations

Journal Article | December 2018