Shadow Size

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s ideas about how light interacts with an object to form a shadow. The probe is designed to reveal children’s ideas about the size of a shadow in relation to…

From Questions to Claims: How AI Intersects with Scientific Practice

Blog Post | January 2026

Why is something that’s happening out in the ocean such a danger to us on the land?

Lesson Plan | January 2021

NSTA Remembers Past President Fred Blumenfeld

Blog Post | May 2021

Social Justice in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | April 2020

Distributing Expertise to Integrate Computational Thinking Practices

Journal Article | April 2020

Equity for All

Journal Article | June 2020

Collaborative Assessments

Journal Article | August 2020

Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning

Journal Article | December 2020

This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…

Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Use of Speaking, Listening, and Writing Skills to Understand the Importance of Nature of Science Instruction

Journal Article | July 2020

There has been a focus on improving teachers’ views of nature of science for decades. The method in which researchers improve views of nature of science, however, varies greatly. This study aimed to improve elementary…

From the Field: Events and Opportunities, June 1, 2021

Reports Article | May 2021

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, March 12, 2024

Reports Article | March 2024

Living With Her Genes

Case Study | August 2008

An Anatomic Study of the Automatic Autonomic Nervous System

Case Study | January 2022

Ready, Set, Create: Engineers Inspiring Youth to Build Their Dreams

Journal Article | May 2021