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Stimulate Science Learning with Student Debates

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Stimulate Science Learning with Student Debates

The new NSTA Press book ...

By Carole Hayward

Elementary Teaching Strategies

How Can You Assess the Science Your Children Are Doing and Learning?

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How Can You Assess the Science Your Children Are Doing and Learning?

A guest post by Cindy Hoisington (choisington@edc.org), an early childhood science educator and researcher at Education Development Center Inc. in Waltham MA; Regan Vidiksis, a researcher at Education Development Center with a focus on STEM teaching ...

By Peggy Ashbrook

Early Childhood Elementary Teaching Strategies

Branches and STEM

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Branches and STEM

I want to know if there are ways to incorporate [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)] into more or all subjects? How would a teacher begin to integrate English or social studies with STEM? —M, Arkansas...

By Gabe Kraljevic

STEM Teaching Strategies

Building STEAM With Model Railroads

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Building STEAM With Model Railroads

Are you a science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) teacher seeking a new way to interest students in these subjects? While model railroading is not a new hobby, STEAM teachers can accomplish learning goals while introducing it to a ne...

By Debra Shapiro

STEM Teaching Strategies

NSTA Press Book

Integrating STEM Teaching and Learning Into the K–2 Classroom

New in 2020!“Integrating STEM Teaching and Learning Into the K–2 Classroom is a critically important contribution toward advancing STEM teaching and learning. It blazes a trail for early elementary classroom practitioners to reflect the latest th...

By Jo Anne Vasquez, Michael Comer, Jen Gutierrez

Early Childhood Pre-service Teachers Preschool STEM Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Teacher Preparation

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Science Packs

By Julianne A. Wenner and Soñia Galaviz

Elementary STEM Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

The Power of Observation

By Sally J. Bensusen

Elementary Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

A Learning Tool for Chemistry and Health Professions Students: Mnemonics for Writing Net Ionic Equations

Chemical mnemonic devices have been designed to aid students in understanding chemical concepts in previous years. This has been done for concepts such as oxyanions, ozonolysis, tautomerization mechanisms in organic chemistry, and writing reactions o...

By Angela L. Mahaffey

Postsecondary Chemistry Teaching Strategies

Coronavirus Meets ... Physics? Making a Biological Topic Fit into a Physics World

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Coronavirus Meets ... Physics? Making a Biological Topic Fit into a Physics World

Author: Stephanie Duke, Physics Teacher and Science Department Chair at Graves County High School in Mayfield, KY...

By Korei Martin

Biology Physics STEM Teaching Strategies

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What Does It Really Take to Get High School Students to Make Their Ideas Visible?

Asking high school students to reveal what they really think about what causes a natural or designed phenomenon is risky business. Risky in that it requires students to take the intellectual and social risk of sharing their thinking, which may or may...

By Angie Berk, Jen MacColl and Kristen Moorhead

High School Biology Equity Inquiry Physics Teaching Strategies

Going Public: Revealing Student Thinking in Science by Missy Holzer

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Going Public: Revealing Student Thinking in Science by Missy Holzer

Our classrooms are dynamic places where young learners gather to figure out the natural world. How can we be sure they are all making sense of the phenomena during this process? How do we know what they are thinking?...

By Kate Falk

Middle School Assessment Equity Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

Making Students’ Thinking Visible Through Discussion by Dana McCusker and Marisa Miller

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Making Students’ Thinking Visible Through Discussion by Dana McCusker and Marisa Miller

As the assistant director of science for Mastery Charter Schools I have had the pleasure of working with Dana McCusker and seeing her excellent teaching in action. As a science teacher leader, she has been at the forefront of utilizing discussion res...

By Kate Falk

Elementary Earth & Space Science Equity Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

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Using Models to Teach Science

By Byung-Yeol Park, Laura Rodriguez, and Todd Campbell

High School Environmental Science NGSS Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Arguing About a Chemical Change

Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction ...

By Patrick Brown

High School Chemistry Literacy NGSS Teaching Strategies

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