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Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Watermelon and Grape: An Intuitive Rule of Quantity and Proportion
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue shows a formative assessment probe that reveals how strong the "More A - More B" intuitive rule is when students are considering the properties of floating and sinking...
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: What's the Big Idea?
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses three big ideas from the research behind the Next Generation Science Standards....
Journal Article
Editor's Note: Cause and Effect
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Seeds in a Bag
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this month’s issue the formative assessment probe is designed to uncover students' use of a crosscutting concept—cause and effect—related to germination of a seed....
Journal Article
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....
NSTA Press Book
The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the NGSS, High School
Since the release of the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), NSTA has been at the forefront in promoting the standards and helping science educators become familiar with and learn to navigate this exciting but complex documen...