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Methods and Strategies: What’s the Story?

Journal Article

Methods and Strategies: What’s the Story?

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses using the 5E learning cycle to create coherent storylines....

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Methods and Strategies: Time to Change

Journal Article

Methods and Strategies: Time to Change

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses embedding literacy into the 5E while addressing the principles of the Next Generation Science Standards....

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Methods and Strategies: Ask the Right Question

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Methods and Strategies: Ask the Right Question

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue shows how teachers can use literature and higher-level thinking questions to enhance science instruction....

Elementary General Science Assessment Inquiry NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Literacy New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education

Teacher's Toolkit: Interactive word walls: Visual Scaffolds That Transform Vocabulary Instruction

Journal Article

Teacher's Toolkit: Interactive word walls: Visual Scaffolds That Transform Vocabulary Instruction

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue describes how middle school teachers can use interactive word walls to increase their students’ ability to learn and effectively use the langu...

Middle School General Science Curriculum Multilingual Learners NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Literacy

NSTA Press Book

Dive In! Immersion in Science Practices for High School Students

What is it really like to plunge into the world of science learning and teaching? Find out in this unique book. Dive In! grew out of a teacher–scientist project at the University of New Hampshire that promoted active learning and using science prac...

By Karen J. Graham, Lara M. Gengarelly, Barbara A. Hopkins, Melissa A. Lombard

High School General Science Instructional Materials Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Inclusion New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation Administrators

Methods and Strategies: Much Ado About Nothing

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Methods and Strategies: Much Ado About Nothing

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses how children think about the small-particle model of matter....

Elementary General Science Physical Science Instructional Materials NGSS Pedagogy Phenomena Teaching Strategies

Methods and Strategies: Science Notebooks as Learning Tools

Journal Article

Methods and Strategies: Science Notebooks as Learning Tools

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. Lessons from a multi-year professional study group offer insights on getting the most out of science notebooks....

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NSTA Press Book

Helping Students Make Sense of the World Using Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices

When it’s time for a game change, you need a guide to the new rules. Helping Students Make Sense of the World Using Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices provides a play-by-play understanding of the practices strand of A Framework for K...

By Christina V. Schwarz, Cynthia Passmore, Brian J. Reiser

Elementary Informal Education Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Learning Progression NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation

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