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Journal Article
The manufacture of metal alloys is ubiquitous, yet infrequently discussed in high school coursework as concepts related to them are often too complex or abstract for beginning science students. However, earlier introduction to metallurgy in classro...
By Christina Polcino, Billyjack Jory, Jean Sabety, Laura Grenot Jones, Jared Ashcroft, and Brandon Rodriguez
Journal Article
Chemical mnemonic devices have been designed to aid students in understanding chemical concepts in previous years. This has been done for concepts such as oxyanions, ozonolysis, tautomerization mechanisms in organic chemistry, and writing reactions o...
By Angela L. Mahaffey
Journal Article
Arguing About a Chemical Change
Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction ...
By Patrick Brown
Journal Article
For most people, coffee roasting is a mysterious process. Chemically, it’s equally mysterious; the roasting process gives rise to over 800 compounds. The science of coffee, from seed to bean to cup of aromatic brew, includes multiple areas of ...
By Tom Cubbage
Journal Article
“Plants do photosynthesis and animals do cellular respiration.” At some point in our science classes many of us have had this statement uttered to us by a teacher or said it to help students remember one of the key distinctions between plants and...
By Jennifer l. Maeng and Amanda Gonczi
Blog Post
Achieving Equity Through Assessments
Our school requires all students to take chemistry. We teach all levels, ranging from Collaborative/Inclusive Chemistry to Honors and AP Chemistry. All of our classes have students who speak different languages, as well as students with a range of so...
By Laura Littrell and Kevin Williams
Blog Post
How PLCs Helped Move Us Toward Equitable High School Assessment Practices
My colleagues and I began using units intentionally designed for the NGSS for biology in early 2017. We started with a high-quality unit evaluated by my colleagues on the Science Peer Review Panel, and eventually used a full program from the unit’s...
By Holly Hereau
NSTA Press Book
Creating Engineering Design Challenges: Success Stories From Teachers
If you’ve ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engineering Design Challenges is the book for you. At its core are 13 units grounded in challenge-based le...
Journal Article
Sphero Robots and the Periodic Table
Students review the periodic table by coding robots. ...
By CHRISTINE HERALD