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Journal Article

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins said, “There are those who fear reason as cold, bleak, cheerless, unpoetic. That’s not just untrue; it’s the very opposite of true. Science is the poetry of reality” (Dawkins 2016). Science is reminiscen...

By Katie Coppens

Middle School Interdisciplinary Literacy STEM

Journal Article

Mission INSPIRE

Students with visual impairments are often the only students at their school who read braille. They often do not participate in science fairs, in some cases because of low expectations on the part of educators and in other cases because of accessibil...

By Tiffany Wild, Tina Herzberg, and L. Penny Rosenblum

Middle School Inclusion Literacy Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Fostering Scientific Literacy With Problem Sets That Generate Cognitive Presence and Fulfill Basic Psychological Needs

Guided by self-determination theory to design an authentic learning environment, we attempted repeated engagement in critical evaluation of evidence to foster accuracy-oriented reasoning and critical thinking in an applied science course for non-STEM...

By Guang Jin, Alicia Wodika, Rebekka Darner, and Jianwei Lai

Literacy Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Using Fiction and Nonfiction Readings in Climate Change Education

Facts about climate change are often ineffective in impacting people’s climate change beliefs or environmentally related behaviors. Multiple theories of environmental behavior use norms to foster behavior change. Science fiction writers may also at...

By Alison Singer, Caitlin Kirby, and Eleanor Rappolee

Climate Change Literacy Research Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Solar Eclipse

By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Elementary Astronomy Earth & Space Science Literacy

Journal Article

Exploring Eclipses

By Christine Anne Royce

Elementary Astronomy Earth & Space Science Literacy

Journal Article

Astronauts Zoom: An Astronaut Alphabet

Astronauts Zoom: An Astronaut Alphabet  By Deborah Lee Rose September 2020 Persnickety Press 36 pages $16.95 ...

By Peggy Ashbrook and Ann Caspar

Pre-K Early Childhood Astronomy Earth & Space Science Literacy

Journal Article

Kids Love Nonfiction!

By Melissa Stewart

Preschool Early Childhood Advocacy Interdisciplinary Literacy Multilingual Learners

Blog Post

The Global Importance of Science Education

By Julie A. Luft, Ph.D., NSTA President 2023-2024

Citizen Science Equity General Science Literacy News Three-Dimensional Learning

Journal Article

Shattering the Language Barrier

By Yamil Ernesto Ruiz and Brooke A. Whitworth

High School English Language Learners Instructional Materials Literacy Multicultural NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Biology Students’ Views of Science Communication

Educational efforts to promote effective oral science communication at the undergraduate level tend to reinforce strategies related to impression management. Students are taught tactics that can be used to create the impression of competent science c...

By Alandeom W. Oliveira, Adam O. Brown, Marissa Carroll, Elizabeth Blenkarn, Bradley Austin, and Tiffany Bretzlaff

Biology Literacy Pedagogy Teaching Strategies