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Toward High School Biology: Understanding Growth in Living Things, Student Edition
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Through 19 carefully sequenced lessons and activities, this unit gets middle schoolers ready for next-level learning. Students explore what happens at the molecular level so they can understand how living things grow…
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Preparing Teachers for Three-Dimensional Instruction
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It’s not enough for teachers to read through the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and correlate their content to the established curriculum. Teachers must prepare to make the vision of the NGSS come alive in…
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Reading Nature: Engaging Biology Students With Evidence From the Living World
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By making room for this book in your curriculum, you’ll have a fresh way to motivate your students to look at the living world and ask not only “Why?” but also “How do we know?” Unique in both its structure and approach…
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STEM, Standards, and Strategies for High-Quality Units
NSTA Press Book |
New in 2020! Download and read a sample chapter from this book to learn more. Do you, your school, or your school district want to align your science curriculum with state standards while meeting the growing…
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Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Third Grade
NSTA Press Book |
Picture Perfect Science: Grade 3 combines the appeal of children’s picture books with standards-based science content. The series contains lessons, complete with student pages and assessments that use picture books to…
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Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Fifth Grade
NSTA Press Book |
Picture Perfect Science: Grade 5 combines the appeal of children’s picture books with standards-based science content. The series contains lessons, complete with student pages and assessments that use picture books to…
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The Big Ideas of Nanoscale Science and Engineering: A Guidebook for Secondary Teachers
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Given the ability of nanoscience and nanotechnology to exploit the unique properties that matter exhibits at the nanoscale, the research resulting from these emerging fields is poised to dramatically affect everyday…
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Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspire STEM Learning
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"Teachers in our district have been fans of Picture-Perfect Science for years, and it’s made a huge impact on how they fit science into their school day. We are so excited to do more of the same with these Picture-…
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The New Science Teacher's Handbook: What You Didn't Learn From Student Teaching
NSTA Press Book |
“One of the first activities I ask new science teachers to do in my methods course is to think of a memorable science activity from their past. Whether it’s creating an exploding vinegar and baking soda volcano,…
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Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science
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What do you get when you bring together two of NSTA’s bestselling authors to ponder ways to deepen students’ conceptual understanding of science? A fascinating combination of deep thinking about science teaching, field-…
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Big Data, Small Devices: Investigating the Natural World Using Real-Time Data
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Now your students can transform their mobile phones and tablets into tools for learning about everything from weather to water quality. Big Data, Small Devices shows you how. This book is designed for Earth and…
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2, Second Edition: 25 More Formative Assessment Probes
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“Leave no alternative science idea unchallenged!” could be the slogan of this second edition of Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2. Like the others in the bestselling series, this book is loaded with…
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The NSTA Atlas of the Three Dimensions
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New in 2020! Download and read a sample chapter from this book to learn more. A key aspect of learning in K–12 education is the idea that what students know and are able to do grows and evolves over time. Simple…
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NSTA Press Book |
Humans perceive the world by constructing mental models—telling a story, interpreting a map, reading a book. Every way we interact with the world involves mental models, whether creating new ones or building on existing…
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Reimagining the Science Department
NSTA Press Book |
What if you could change the department-level factors that don’t support teaching and learning? Explore answers to this fascinating question and many more with Reimagining the Science Department. In five thoughtful…
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