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Journal Article
Teacher's Toolkit: The Argumentation and Evaluation Guide: Encouraging NGSS-Based Critical Thinking
In this article the authors focus on how you can use a new tool—argumentation and evaluation guide—to enhance argumentation in the classroom, evaluate a claim made by others, and make and explain claims based on evidence from laboratory experimen...
NSTA Press Book
It’s challenging to teach science well to all students while connecting your lessons to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This unique book portrays real teaching scenarios written by the teachers on the NGSS Diversity and Equity Team. T...
Journal Article
The Early Years: Where Does the "Warm" Go?
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue helps children learn about the transfer of heat from one material to another....
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: The Future of Farming
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes an integrated, multidisciplinary unit that introduces second-grade students to hydroponic gardening....
Journal Article
The Early Years: The Building Blocks of Measurement
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue shares an activity in which students can learn about position, size, and amount....
Journal Article
The Early Years: Cause and Effect: Where's the Evidence?
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue addresses the crosscutting concept of cause and effect as the column editor views it from her work with children ages 2–8....
eBook
Argument-Driven Inquiry in Chemistry: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 (e-book)
Transform your chemistry labs with this guide to argument-driven inquiry. Designed to be much more authentic for instruction than traditional laboratory activities, the investigations in this book give high school students the opportunity to work the...