All Three-Dimensional Learning resources
NSTA Press Book
Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions
Click here to view video of Wild Wonderings Let your curiosity run wild! This lively book will inspire you to ask questions like scientists do. Why? Because questions can lead you to amazing discoveries. Like what? Like when theoretical physicist ...
By Jessica Fries-Gaither
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 12, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Journal Article
This study aims to contribute to the growing body of research on the role of crosscutting concepts (CCCs) in three-dimensional (3D) teaching and learning by examining the complexity of elementary preservice teachers’ (PSTs) knowledge for teaching r...
By Soon Lee, Anna Arias
Blog Post
Empowering Science Education With AI: Enhancing Three-Dimensional Learning
By Christine Anne Royce, Ed.D., and Valerie Bennett, Ph.D., Ed.D.
Journal Article
All students should have opportunities to investigate issues related to their personal interests and community priorities. Teachers value these goals but often lack materials that follow students' meaningful questions about phenomena while meeting st...
By William Penuel, Kate Henson, Zoë Bracey, Nicole Vick, Ann Rivet
Journal Article
Dog Days At School: Using Authenticity to Guide cross-curricular Learning in Kindergarten
The presented unit explores the often-overlooked potential of integrating science, social studies, math, and ELA through the lens of a kindergarten unit centered around the creation of a dog park. Emphasizing collaborative decision-making and communi...
By Amanda Sanderman, Chelsie Byram
Journal Article
Learning to be an Ambitious Science Teacher
Since the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), students are expected to learn science according to the three-dimensions (DCI, SEP, CCC). In order for teachers to support the three-dimensional learning of their students, they need ...
By Alex Gerber, Heather Milo
Journal Article
Mapping in Two and Three Dimensions
Second graders used their own school-ground explorations, using journals and iPads for pictures and narrated videos, to create traditional, two-dimensional models of their school-grounds and all its natural and human-made features. These data collect...
By Jeffery Townsend, Connie Hodge, Sonja Yow, Whitney Cox
Journal Article
Integrating engineering into the science curriculum in a meaningful way requires planning that utilizes a 3-dimensional approach. Using a “gather, reason, communicate” framework (Moulding, Huff, Van der Veen, 2020) provided me with an effective ...
By Katheryn Kennedy
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 27, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Class Pack
Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks! • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA Science Kit Services! Now offering ...
Class Pack
Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks! • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA Science Kit Services! Now offering ...
Class Pack
The Handiest Things ClassPack: Grade K
Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks! • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA Science Kit Services! Now offering ...
Journal Article
Community Connections to Support Early Science Learning
Community resources offer extensions of early science learning that can deepen connections to the local ecosystem. This column offers ideas to extend early childhood classroom science through community mapping....
By Alissa Lange
Journal Article
We are now a decade past the release of the NGSS —an event that has shaped the way we teach science. The NGSS, with its three-dimensional approach encompassing disciplinary core ideas (DCIs), science and engineering practices (SEPs), and cross-cutt...
By Patricia McGinnis