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You Teach What? I’m So Sorry! Building a Better Body and Building Better Argumentation
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I am always amazed at the looks on people’s faces when I tell them I teach middle school. They seem to pity me for having a position I chose and love! They inform me that middle school “tween-agers” are argumentative,…
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Introducing Crosscutting Concepts in the Elementary Grades
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Four years ago, I moved from teaching middle school science to teaching grades 2–5 STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) labs. One of the biggest challenges I faced was limited lab time in our…
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Science Class: A Place Where Children Should Be Seen and Heard
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I recently observed a lesson about how shadows change throughout the day, and I was fascinated by the amount of time the teacher and the class took to listen to and watch one another as they discussed the data. The…
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What Does It Really Take to Get High School Students to Make Their Ideas Visible?
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Asking high school students to reveal what they really think about what causes a natural or designed phenomenon is risky business. Risky in that it requires students to take the intellectual and social risk of sharing…
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Helping Students Take Control of Their Learning
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I am responsible for teaching my students how to think, learn, solve problems, and make informed decisions. I firmly believe that science is everywhere and affects all aspects of our daily lives, from the food we…
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Anyone who teaches middle school students knows they have a lot of energy, and a lot of hot air. Why not put it to use? In this activity, students will be challenged to modify a simple plastic balloon racer to travel…
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How to Evaluate NGSS Lessons and Units with the New Improved EQuIP Rubric for Science
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The Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products (EQuIP) Rubric for science provides criteria by which to measure the degree to which lessons and units are designed for …
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Making Students’ Thinking Visible Through Discussion by Dana McCusker and Marisa Miller
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As the assistant director of science for Mastery Charter Schools I have had the pleasure of working with Dana McCusker and seeing her excellent teaching in action. As a science teacher leader, she has been at the…
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Eight Student Teams Named National Winners of 34th Annual ExploraVision Competition
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Celebrating Science Teachers Every Day
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All Connect Science Learning resources
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NSTA Joins Army STEM Education Consortium to Advance National STEM Workforce Development
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All The Science Teacher resources
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Building Wonder with Text Sets: Tools for Inquiry Rich Classrooms, September 16, 2026
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Join us on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET, for another installment of Book Beat Live!This session introduces text sets as powerful, multimodal tools that spark curiosity, deepen sensemaking,…
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