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Journal Article
Disequilibrium: Forming Clouds in the Classroom
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event allows students to model condensation, the portion of the hydrologic cycle in which water vapor condenses into liquid form and creates a cloud....
NSTA Press Book
Once Upon an Earth Science Book: 12 Interdisciplinary Activities to Create Confident Readers
If you work with students who struggle to understand their Earth science texts, this book provides everything you need to boost their skills in both science and reading. Once Upon an Earth Science Book starts with advice on teaching reading comprehen...
By Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
NSTA Press Book
Science Learning in the Early Years: Activities for PreK-2
REVERE Award Winner, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers!...
By Peggy Ashbrook
NSTA Press Book
Uncovering Student Ideas in Earth and Environmental Science: 32 New Formative Assessment Probes
If you’re new to formative assessment probes, you’ll love this timely addition to the bestselling Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series. Authors Page Keeley and Laura Tucker give you 32 engaging questions, or probes, that can reveal what you...
By Page Keeley, Laura Tucker
NSTA Press Book
Creative Writing in Science: Activities That Inspire
Do you ever feel like your science classes could use a shot of imagination? Boost the creativity quotient by assigning a travel blog about the digestive system, a packing list for the planets, or an interview with an atom. You’ll inspire students t...
By Katie Coppens
Book Chapter
Are They Talking About Climate or Weather?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about climate. The probe is designed to find out whether students distinguish between weather and climate. It is important that students understand that they are to select statements...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about watersheds. A watershed is an area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place. They come in all shapes and sizes and include b...
NSTA Kids
La próxima vez que veas una puesta del sol
A 2014 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!2014 Winner of the REVERE Award from PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers! “Next time you see a sunset, stop and sit down for a while.”...
Journal Article
Aquaponics: What a Way to Grow!
Fifth graders design systems for fish and plants while exploring human impacts on the environment....