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Interactive E-book Kids

Fish Out of Water

Kat is a student paleontologist who uses a video chat app to communicate with readers during her expedition to visit a paleontological site in the des...

Early Childhood Elementary Informal Education Pre-service Teachers Earth & Space Science STEM Technology 5E Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary

Interactive E-book Kids

Are They the Same?

This e-book is based on the natural phenomenon that any group of plants or animals will demonstrate individual variation that allows scientists to dis...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Biology Life Science STEM Technology 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy

Interactive E-book Kids

Help Me Grow

Help Me Grow is an interactive book where readers enter a forest to see how four different animals raise their young. Interactivities and questions gu...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy

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One District’s Path to Improving Student Discourse

If you’ve spent any time exploring the shifts in NGSS instructional practices you will understand the call for “less sage on the stage and more gu...

By Cindy Workosky

Middle School Elementary High School NGSS Teaching Strategies

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Science Class: A Place Where Children Should Be Seen and Heard

I recently observed a lesson about how shadows change throughout the day, and I was fascinated by the amount of time the teacher and the class took to...

By Cindy Workosky

Elementary Crosscutting Concepts Earth & Space Science Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

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ES Interactive Word Wall

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Earth and Space (Solar System)

Gr 2's unit on the solar system and technologies related to space exploration...

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Matter

Resources for Grade 4's unit on Matter -- properties, changes, practical applications...

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Earth's Changes

Resources for Grade 3's Earth's changes unit...

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Sound and Light

Resources for Grade 2 unit on sound and light...

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NSTA Kids

Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data

Celebrate imagination! This NSTA Kids book has been selected for the Children’s Book Council #ImaginationCelebration Showcase! Full book list: Imag...

Elementary General Science Instructional Materials Careers Multicultural