JoinAll Teaching Strategies resources
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Designing Engineering Projects That Teach Science Concepts by Cory Culbertson
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the engineering projects in my courses. On the surface, they don’t seem like something I need to worry about...
By Cory Culbertson
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Linking Science and Engineering Through Good Questions
Engineering design projects are a wonderful opportunity for students to develop science disciplinary core ideas (DCIs). (As many of you know, with the...
By Greg Bartus
Blog Post
Helping Students Take Control of Their Learning
I am responsible for teaching my students how to think, learn, solve problems, and make informed decisions. I firmly believe that science is...
By Cindy Abel
Blog Post
A Physics Teaching Approach That Supports Real-World Science by Matt Holsten
Traditional physics education can leave many students confused, bored, or without the conceptual understanding of the equations they are required to m...
By Cindy Workosky
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Modeling How Students Can Share Ideas and Make Sense of Phenomena by Aaron Mueller
One of the most important steps I take to elicit student ideas in the classroom is to establish a classroom culture that makes students feel comfortab...
By Cindy Workosky
Blog Post
Building Classroom Community in an NGSS-Aligned Elementary Science Classroom
In an elementary science classroom, it’s not incredibly challenging to motivate students to want to do science and engineering....
By Gretchen Brinza
Blog Post
Three Strategies for Building Classroom Community
As I reflect on the end of this school year, I think about how successful I was in building a classroom community. A key aspect of transitio...
By Nicole Vick
Blog Post
Under Indefinite Construction: Creating an NGSS-Friendly Classroom Community
When the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were first released, I struggled with how to create opportunities that allowed the student...
By Megan Rowlands Elmore
Journal Article
Using Virtual Reality in the Classroom for Students on the Autism Spectrum
Virtual reality has seen rapid development in the first part of the 21st century, although it has been around for many years. Remember the old ViewM...
By Wyayn Rasmussen, and Kate Drechsler
Blog Post
I first encountered the KLEWS teaching strategy in an article in Science and Children (NSTA 2015), “KLEWS to Explanation-Building in Science.” I s...
Blog Post
As several reports have shown, it is critical for teachers to understand instructional strategies that are consistent with the NGSS vision, as well as...
By Diane Johnson
NSTA Press Book
Radioactivity, Grade 11: STEM Road Map for High School
What if you could challenge your 11th graders to figure out the best response to a partial meltdown at a nuclear reactor in fictional Gammatown, USA? ...
NSTA Press Book
Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science, Grades 7–12
Many middle and high school teachers are educated to teach science content—they don’t anticipate that one day they may be teaching it to students ...
By Molly Weinburgh, Cecilia Silva, Kathy Horak Smith