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Class Pack
Harnessing the Wind ClassPack: Grades K-5
Based on the award-winning, best-selling Picture-Perfect STEM series, this ClassPack pairs effortlessly with the Picture-Perfect STEM Grades K-5 Lesson "Harnessing the Wind" to combine reading comprehension, literacy, and science in your classroom! ...
Class Pack
The Wind Blew ClassPack: Grades K-5
Based on the award-winning, best-selling Picture-Perfect STEM series, this ClassPack pairs effortlessly with the Picture-Perfect STEM Grades K-5 Lesson "The Wind Blew" to combine reading comprehension, literacy, and science in your classroom! Using ...
Class Pack
Float Your Boat ClassPack: Grades K-5
Using Even More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K–5 in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—a...
Journal Article
Teacher's Toolkit: The Argumentation and Evaluation Guide: Encouraging NGSS-Based Critical Thinking
In this article the authors focus on how you can use a new tool—argumentation and evaluation guide—to enhance argumentation in the classroom, evaluate a claim made by others, and make and explain claims based on evidence from laboratory experimen...
Journal Article
The Early Years: Where Does the "Warm" Go?
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue helps children learn about the transfer of heat from one material to another....
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
The Early Years: The Building Blocks of Measurement
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue shares an activity in which students can learn about position, size, and amount....
Journal Article
Editor's Note: Cause and Effect
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
Journal Article
The Early Years: Cause and Effect: Where's the Evidence?
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue addresses the crosscutting concept of cause and effect as the column editor views it from her work with children ages 2–8....