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Would you like to challenge your middle school students to explain a range of phenomena—from how nylon thread can form from two clear, colorless liquids to how a snake that eats only eggs can make body structures such as skin and scales that don’...

By AAAS/Project 2061

Middle School Biology Instructional Materials NGSS Phenomena Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation

NSTA Press Book

Toward High School Biology: Understanding Growth in Living Things, Student Edition

Through 19 carefully sequenced lessons and activities, this unit gets middle schoolers ready for next-level learning. Students explore what happens at the molecular level so they can understand how living things grow and repair their body structures....

By AAAS/Project 2061

Middle School Biology Curriculum Instructional Materials Lesson Plans NGSS Performance Expectations Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Labs New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education

NSTA Press Book

Building the Science Department: Stories of Success

How can your science department become a site for developing science teachers’ professional learning? Building the Science Department answers that question through stories from teachers who walk the sometimes rocky path of reforming science teachin...

By Wayne Melville, Doug Jones, Todd Campbell

Postsecondary High School Middle School General Science Technology Instructional Materials NGSS Teaching Strategies Careers New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Administrators

Journal Article

Teaching Through Trade Books: The Tool and Eye

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this month’s issue students explore animal adaptations through books that show how body structures assist in survival or how animals use objects in their environment to meet th...

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

Blog Post

Gravitational Interactions and 3-D Learning in Middle School

I recently embarked on a journey with K–8 teachers in Vermont to learn how to be intentional about planning for three-dimensional (3-D) learning in the classroom....

By Cindy Workosky

Middle School High School Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

NSTA Press Book

Transportation in the Future, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School

What if you could challenge your third graders to design the train of the future? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Transportation in the Future outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic pro...

Elementary Engineering Mathematics STEM Curriculum Instructional Materials Inquiry Lesson Plans NGSS Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

NSTA Press Book

Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning

This is the book that will flip the way you think about STEM from “not me” to “I’m in!” Author Jeff Weld is the director of the acclaimed Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council. He sees STEM as “a white-hot, transformative revolution in ...

By Jeff Weld

Postsecondary Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School STEM Assessment Curriculum Instructional Materials Inquiry Careers Inclusion New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation Administrators