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Understanding Climate Change, Grades 7–12 (Book Sample)

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Understanding Climate Change, Grades 7–12 (Book Sample)

Get help teaching one of the hottest topics in science with Understanding Climate Change, Grades 7–12. This nine-session module is written to be practical and accessible. It provides both extensive background and step-by-step instructions for using...

High School Middle School Climate Change Earth & Space Science Science and Engineering Practices

NSTA Press Book

Investigating Environmental Changes, Grade 2: STEM Road Map for Elementary School

What if you could challenge your second graders to design an outdoor STEM classroom with a butterfly garden, birdbath, and sundial? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!...

Elementary Earth & Space Science Life Science STEM Assessment Curriculum Instructional Materials Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Teacher Preparation

Teacher's Toolkit: Using the Five Practices to Facilitate a Meaningful Discussion on Plate Tectonics in a Middle School Classroom

Journal Article

Teacher's Toolkit: Using the Five Practices to Facilitate a Meaningful Discussion on Plate Tectonics in a Middle School Classroom

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This issue explains how you can encourage abstract reasoning and scientific thinking through a Five Practices Discussion....

Middle School Earth & Space Science General Science NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

Journal Article

The Sun's Energy

By Christine Anne Royce

Elementary Earth & Space Science

Science Class: A Place Where Children Should Be Seen and Heard

Blog Post

Science Class: A Place Where Children Should Be Seen and Heard

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 careful structuring of time for ana...

By Cindy Workosky

Elementary Crosscutting Concepts Earth & Space Science Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

NSTA Kids

The Beaks of Birds

Come along on a tour of the wonderful world of birds and their beaks. This book is the story of a child and two grown-up friends on a jaunt across their yard, in a park, past a pond, and through the pages of a photo album. Like them, you’ll find yo...

Early Childhood Elementary Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool Astronomy Earth & Space Science Life Science Instructional Materials

NSTA Press Book

Patterns and the Plant World, Grade 1: STEM Road Map for Elementary School

What if you could challenge your first graders to relate changes in seasonal weather patterns to changes in the plant world using a container garden? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!...

Elementary Biology Earth & Space Science Life Science STEM Technology Assessment Curriculum Instructional Materials Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Preservice Science Education

Scientists and Engineers Are CURIOUS

Book Chapter

Scientists and Engineers Are CURIOUS

In this lesson, students learn that scientists and engineers are curious. They read about Mary Anning in the book The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning’s Dinosaur Discovery, by Catherine Brighton. After reading, students will learn about the history of Eart...

Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Earth & Space Science Science and Engineering Practices Literacy

Citizen Science: Cloudy With a Chance of “Cirrus” Science

Journal Article

Citizen Science: Cloudy With a Chance of “Cirrus” Science

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. NASA Globe Observer (GO) Clouds is a citizen science project that combines cloud and sky observations from t...

Middle School Earth & Space Science Teaching Strategies Citizen Science Interdisciplinary

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