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Teaching Through Trade Books: Recording Scientific Explorations
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue has students engaging in documentation when they perform investigations and sketch, label, or provide details about their work and findings....
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: Put Your Walls to Work
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses planning and using interactive word walls to support science and reading instruction....
NSTA Kids
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science b...
NSTA Kids
Next Time You See a Cloud (Library binding)
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science b...
NSTA Kids
This lively book’s title makes the perfect motto for young scientists: Look and see! With the help of charming text and bright pictures, you learn just how much you can use your sense of sight. Toys and tools, birds and bugs, flowers and fish, and ...
NSTA Kids
Fragrant as a Flower: I Wonder Why
Follow your nose! This book invites you to learn what your sense of smell can teach you as you amble around town. Go along as a little boy listens to his dad’s tale about taking in the deliciousness of a pastry shop, the woodsy smells of a lumberya...
NSTA Kids
Quiet as a Butterfly: I Wonder Why
“One day I listened. I listened to all the sounds I heard. I listened and I wondered.” From a clock’s ticks in the morning to a father’s snores at night, sounds are everywhere. That’s what an attentive boy discovers as he listens his way...
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: Forecasting Hazardous Conditions
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. Through the use of printed text and video resources, young students can begin to ask questions to learn about different types of weather, whereas older students can start to conside...
Journal Article
Earth History Theories: Relative Age Dating Lab With Additions for Mining and Mineral Exploration
Dig into this stratigraphy lab to learn how scientists assign ages to specific rock layers....
NSTA Kids
Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings
Click here to view video of Notable Notebooks Celebrate imagination! This NSTA Kids book has been selected for the Children’s Book Council #ImaginationCelebration Showcase! Full book list: Imagination Celebration Showcase Named an Outsta...