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…

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…

The Wealth of Water

Case Study | July 2009

Keeping up with the Joneses

Case Study | March 2007

The Haemophilus Vaccine

Case Study | February 2001

Dogma Spies

Journal Article | July 2022

What’s Up With Gravity?

Journal Article | May 2023

Oligotrophic

Journal Article | April 2021

Ocean Influences Climate

Journal Article | March 2022

Improving Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Engineering Teaching Efficacy Beliefs With 3D Design and Printing

Journal Article | December 2020

The Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) under-score the importance of including engineering design process (EDP) within the science curriculum. The Framework and the…

The Lives of Staph

Journal Article | November 2020

Shaking out Probability

Journal Article | April 2021

Patterns From Earth’s Place in Space

Journal Article | November 2022