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Teaching Teachers: Evolving the Physics Mindset
This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. Changing perceptions and attitudes toward the teaching and learning of physical science...
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This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This issue explains how you can encourage abstract reasoning and scientific thinking through a Five Practices Discussion....
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Guest Editorial: Using the BSCS 5E Instructional Model to Introduce STEM Disciplines
Author Rodger W. Bybee describes how teachers can use the BSCS 5E Instructional Model to introduce STEM disciplines....
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The Early Years: Discovering Their Sense of the World
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue aims to engage children in a project-based learning experience....
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Editor's Note: Learning Through Learning
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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The Early Years: Analyzing Media Representations of Animals
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue aims to engage children in analyzing and interpreting illustrations to determine sizes of pictured animals and give evidence for how they know. To ...
NSTA Press Book
Swing Set Makeover, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School
What if you could challenge your third graders to design a swing set that’s safe but still lots of fun? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!Swing Set Makeover outlines a journey that will steer your students toward auth...
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The Early Years: Creating a Possibility-Rich Classroom Environment
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue describes an activity that creates a “possibility-rich” environment or experience for children to have firsthand experience with phenomena or d...