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Book Beat Live seminars focus on NSTA Press books that are valuable resources for teachers learning to grow in their practice and looking for high quality instructional materials.
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Book Beat Live! Next Time You See Book Series, February 4, 2025
Join us on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET, to learn about the NSTA Book Series Next Time You See.Led by NSTA Early Childhood-Elementary Committee members, the web seminar addresses the relationship between the NSTA book series,...
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Join us on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET and meet Joe Krajcik and Christopher Harris authors of the new NSTA Press Book, Creating and Using Instructionally Supportive Assessments in NGSS Classrooms....
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Book Beat Live! Exploring Science with 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, April 17, 2024
Join us on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, from 7:00 to 8:15 PM ET for an in-depth look at strategies for enriching science instruction with quality nonfiction literature....
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Book Beat Live! The Outstanding Science Trade Books and Best STEM Book Lists, March 28, 2024
Join us on Thursday, March 28, 2024, from 7:00 to 8:15 PM ET, for an edition of Book Beat Live! about the Outstanding Science Trade Book List and the Best STEM Book List which highlights books published in 2023.Using children’s books in the science...
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Book Beat Live! Elementary Teacher Takeover, February 5, 2024
NSTA Press books are valuable resources for teachers learning to grow in their practice and looking for high quality instructional materials. Members of the NSTA Early Childhood-Elementary Science Teaching Committee—current and former teachers—ha...
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Book Beat Live! Model-Based Inquiry in Biology, October 10, 2023
Join us on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET, to learn about the NSTA Press book Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12. NSTA Press books are powerful tools to help science educato...
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Book Beat Live! Activating Students' Ideas, September 19, 2023
Join us on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET, to learn about the NSTA Press book Activating Students' Ideas: Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence....
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Book Beat Live! High School Teacher Takeover, June 26, 2023
Join us on Monday, June 26, 2023, from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET, for another edition of NSTA's Book Beat Live! NSTA Press books are valuable resources for teachers learning to grow in their practice and looking for high quality instructional material...
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How do we prepare 21st-century kids for challenges and jobs that we currently cannot even describe? The Best STEM Books can help by celebrating convergent and divergent thinking, analysis and creativity, persistence, and the sheer joy of figuring thi...
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Students’ Ideas Matter! Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence teaching is all about creating conceptual coherence for learners to better prepare them for future careers....
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A great number of the amazing innovations in modern society have resulted from someone making a careful observation, a mistake, or finding out new or different information from experimentation. These unique and serendipitous discoveries tell a story,...
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According to the K-12 Framework for Science Education, “any education in science and engineering needs to develop students’ ability to read and produce domain-specific text. As such, every science or engineering lesson is in part a language lesso...
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Formative assessment is a systematic process of collecting evidence about students’ thinking and progress toward a learning goal to inform instruction while simultaneously promoting conceptual learning. It happens throughout the learning process. I...
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Three-dimensional learning calls for students to not only learn disciplinary content, but also to engage in the practices and habits of mind of scientists and engineers. Science notebooks are a powerful and flexible tool to support three-dimensional ...