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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
Professional Learning Unit
Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit
This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the Science and Engineering Practice An...
Web Seminar Series
In this Web Seminar Series, we will host a Professional Learning Network (PLN) dedicated to educators looking to create instructional learning plans that actively engage themes of social justice and liberatory education in STEM....
Web Seminar
Archive: Strategies on Applying for a Science Teaching Position, November 21, 2024
Preservice educators and those wanting to transition into education from a different career have tools and experiences that are directly applicable to the classroom. This session will discuss strategies to turn those experiences into a powerful...
NSTA Press Book
Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 2: 30 New Formative Assessment Probes
Click here to view video of Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 2...
By Page Keeley
Web Seminar
Archive Science Update: Exoplanets: Finding Life in the Galaxy, January 30, 2025
Join exoplanet astronomer Rob Zellem, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, as he discusses how we find and characterize exoplanets, planets outside of our own Solar System, with the goal of detecting signatures of life. He will also discuss c...
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: The Rocks and Minerals of Climate Change, November 14, 2024
Climate change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our generation, and generations to come. But what's rock got to do with it? Learn how simple and familiar rocks and minerals play a critical role in responding to, recordi...
Web Seminar
Archive: FA24: Health DataWell: HS Life Science Instructional Materials, October 17, 2024
Health Datawell provides free lesson plans and storyline units to help high school students understand the varied roles of citizens and health scientists in protecting and promoting the health and wellness of their communities. These instructional ma...
Member Web Seminar
The NSTA Sensemaking Tool (adapted from the research-based NGSS Lesson Screener) is designed to help educators be critical consumers of curricular materials as well as create and/or revise science lessons to reflect the instructional shifts required ...
Web Seminar Series
SP25: Designing Equitable, 3D, Curriculum-Anchored Assessments: Topic Study for K-12 Educators
Do you want to design an engaging, three-dimensional assessment that you can use in your classroom that is connected to your instructional materials and coherent from the perspective of your students?...
Web Seminar Series
WI25: Supporting Student Sensemaking with the Crosscutting Concepts: Topic Study for K-12 Educators
Students who use CCCs regularly build confidence in their science practices and develop a stronger sense of science identity. Each session presents participants with the opportunity to consider the different ways in which the CCCs can be used in the ...
Web Seminar Series
FA24: Making Sense of Three-Dimensional Teaching and Learning: Topic Study for K-12 Educators
This web seminar series, scheduled on October 22, 29, November 12, and 19, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Eastern time, provides educators and administrators the opportunity to develop or deepen* an understanding of the three-dimensions of teaching an...
Web Seminar
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have an increased presence in our school classrooms and laboratory instructional spaces, including cell phones, tablets, laptops, and equipment. However, Science/STEM teachers nationwide are forced to adopt and make use...