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Why Is Water Sphere-Shaped in Space?

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Why Is Our Fruit Turning Brown?

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Why Are the Bones Still Here?

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How Does a Pandemic Cause Less CO2?

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How Do Our Noses Smell Things?

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Can water change the path of light?

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Where Do 'New' Diseases Come From?

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Why Does Population Size Change?

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Why Do We All Have to Stay Home?

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What's In an Egg?

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NSTA Press Book

Uncovering Student Ideas About Engineering and Technology: 32 New Formative Assessment Probes

New in 2020! Download and read a sample chapter from this book to learn more.Have you been wondering how well your students understand engineering and...

By Page Keeley, Cary Sneider, Mihir Ravel

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Achieving Equity Through Assessments

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Achieving Equity Through Assessments

Our school requires all students to take chemistry. We teach all levels, ranging from Collaborative/Inclusive Chemistry to Honors and AP Chemistry. Al...

By Laura Littrell and Kevin Williams

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NGSS: Planning for Science Success for All Students

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NGSS: Planning for Science Success for All Students

Creating an Environment for All Students to Show Their Understanding Much discussion has focused on how the NGSS (and other state standards based o...

By Hallie Booth

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PLNs + High-Quality Units = NGSS Success

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PLNs + High-Quality Units = NGSS Success

In June 2013, Kentucky’s Board of Education officially adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which not only set a new course for sci...

By David Grossman

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