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NSTA Press Book
The Power of Questioning: Guiding Student Investigations
This pedagogical picture book is a powerful tool in a small package....
By Julie V. McGough, Lisa M. Nyberg
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: KLEWS to Explanation-Building in Science
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue provides an update to the KLEW chart, which adds a tool for explanation building....
NSTA Press Book
A Copublication of Corwin Press and NSTA Press This book shows readers how to use assessment to inform instruction and learning in the science classroom. In the bestselling first volume, Page Keeley shared 75 techniques that help K-12 science teache...
By Page Keeley
Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Ice Cubes in a Bag
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to uncover children's ideas about open and closed systems....
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: The Future of Farming
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes an integrated, multidisciplinary unit that introduces second-grade students to hydroponic gardening....
Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Watermelon and Grape: An Intuitive Rule of Quantity and Proportion
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue shows a formative assessment probe that reveals how strong the "More A - More B" intuitive rule is when students are considering the properties of floating and sinking...
Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Seeds in a Bag
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the formative assessment probe is designed to uncover students' use of a crosscutting concept—cause and effect—related to germination of a seed....
NSTA Press Book
The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the NGSS, High School
Since the release of the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), NSTA has been at the forefront in promoting the standards and helping science educators become familiar with and learn to navigate this exciting but complex documen...
NSTA Press Book
The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the NGSS, K-12
Since the release of the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), NSTA has been at the forefront in promoting the standards and helping science educators become familiar with and learn to navigate this exciting but complex documen...