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Engineering Encounters: Optimizing Your K–5 Engineering Design Challenge
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue discusses the optimizations that will serve to inform readers of seven recommendations for optimizing an engineering lesson....
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Methods and Strategies: Using Argument-Based Inquiry Strategies for STEM Infused Science Teaching
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This article focuses on an argument-based inquiry (ABI) approach to a fourth-grade unit on waves. A fourth-grade teacher included multiple opportunities for students to rea...
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Methods and Strategies: Claims and Evidence
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. Learn how to create opportunities for students to practice speaking and writing about science....
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Science 2.0: Developing the Knowledge Constructor
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the ISTE’s Knowledge Constructor standard....
NSTA Press Book
Disciplinary Core Ideas: Reshaping Teaching and Learning
Like all enthusiastic teachers, you want your students to see the connections between important science concepts so they can grasp how the world works now—and maybe even make it work better in the future. But how exactly do you help them learn and ...
By Ravit Golan Duncan, Joseph Krajcik, Ann E. Rivet
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Methods and Strategies: Put Your Walls to Work
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses planning and using interactive word walls to support science and reading instruction....
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Disequilibrium: Teaching Discrepant Events With the 5E Instructional Model
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month's issue takes a vinegar–baking soda activity through the various stages of the 5E Instructional Model....