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Journal Article
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment probe “Can You Pick It up With...
Journal Article
Engineering Encounters: Teaching Educators About Engineering
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue describes preservice elementary teachers learning engin...
NSTA Press Book
Building the Science Department: Stories of Success
How can your science department become a site for developing science teachers’ professional learning? Building the Science Department answers that q...
By Wayne Melville, Doug Jones, Todd Campbell
NSTA Press Book
Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning
This is the book that will flip the way you think about STEM from “not me” to “I’m in!” Author Jeff Weld is the director of the acclaimed Io...
By Jeff Weld
NSTA Press Book
Transportation in the Future, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School
What if you could challenge your third graders to design the train of the future? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! ...
Blog Post
Using Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) Strategy to Improve Student Learning
This past school year, I used claim, evidence, reasoning (CER) statements to show three-dimensional learning in my classroom. Several tools are availa...
By Cindy Workosky
Journal Article
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-leve...
NSTA Press Book
Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspire STEM Learning
"Teachers in our district have been fans of Picture-Perfect Science for years, and it’s made a huge impact on how they fit science into their school...
By Emily Morgan, Karen Ansberry
Blog Post
Using the Crosscutting Concepts to Scaffold Student Thinking
At the recent NSTA National Conference in Los Angeles, three-dimensional learning was, of course, a major topic of discussion. When those discussions ...
By Cindy Workosky