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Methods and Strategies: Creating a "We" Culture

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue shares strategies to ensure all students connect with science....

Elementary Multilingual Learners NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Equity New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education

NSTA Kids

Next Time You See a Maple Seed

Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! It’s fun to toss maple seeds up in the air and watch them spin down to the ground like nature’s own helicopters. This book prompts inquisitive kids to learn about these marvels of aerial...

Early Childhood Elementary Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Life Science Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials Inquiry NGSS Phenomena Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It a Theory? Speaking the Language of Science

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue focuses on a probe that is designed to find out if students (and teachers) distinguish scientific theories from the common use of the word theory and if they understan...

Elementary Assessment Multilingual Learners

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Editor's Note: Building Language for Science Literacy

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

Elementary General Science Multilingual Learners Literacy

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Formative Assessment Probes: Assessment for All

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue describes some of the features of formative assessment probes designed to broadly address all students as well as ways teachers can make further modifications to meet ...

Elementary Multilingual Learners Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

NSTA Kids

Next Time You See a Firefly

Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!Winner of the REVERE Award from PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers!...

eBook

Clouds, Rain, Clouds Again: I Wonder Why (e-book)

This soothing book is the perfect invitation to a relaxed afternoon of cloud gazing. It starts by encouraging young readers to observe what clouds look like, from thin wisps to puffy air castles to giant faces. Then the story raises natural questions...

Early Childhood Elementary Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science 5E Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials Inquiry Lesson Plans Phenomena Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Sensemaking

NSTA Kids

Next Time You See a Seashell

This book tells the amazing story behind seashells: how they are made by mollusks, used for protection and camouflage, and full of clues about all they’ve been through. Inspired by Next Time You See a Seashell, young readers will find these intrica...

NSTA Kids

Next Time You See a Sunset

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 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! Winne...

Early Childhood Elementary Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Life Science Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials Inquiry NGSS Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

NSTA Press Book

Teaching Science Through Trade Books

“‘What was your favorite book as a child?’ In more than 10 years of facilitating workshops, we have never heard anyone reply, ‘My fourth-grade science textbook.’ Clearly, textbooks have an important place in the science classroom, but usin...

By Christine Anne Royce, Emily Morgan, Karen Ansberry

Postsecondary Elementary Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Assessment Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials Inquiry Lesson Plans Phenomena Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Literacy Multicultural New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation