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NSTA Press Book
Amusement Park of the Future, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School
What if you could challenge your sixth graders to design an amusement park for children of tomorrow to safely enjoy? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Amusement Park of the Future outlines a journey that will stee...
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....
NSTA Press Book
Toward High School Biology: Understanding Growth in Living Things, Teacher Edition
Would you like to challenge your middle school students to explain a range of phenomena—from how nylon thread can form from two clear, colorless liquids to how a snake that eats only eggs can make body structures such as skin and scales that don’...
By AAAS/Project 2061
NSTA Press Book
Toward High School Biology: Understanding Growth in Living Things, Student Edition
Through 19 carefully sequenced lessons and activities, this unit gets middle schoolers ready for next-level learning. Students explore what happens at the molecular level so they can understand how living things grow and repair their body structures....
By AAAS/Project 2061
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 a Magnet?” which is designed to find out what types of materials students think interact with mag...
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 engineering principles from engineers....
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 question through stories from teachers who walk the sometimes rocky path of reforming science teachin...
By Wayne Melville, Doug Jones, Todd Campbell
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! Transportation in the Future outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic pro...