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Journal Article
Cultivating Teachers’ Indigenous Knowledge through Explorations of Milkweed and Phenology
Providing more equitable pedagogies to all students, including those who are traditionally underrepresented, is a high priority of science education. In this paper, we outline how we coupled Indigenous Ways of Knowing with investigations about plant ...
By Hillary Barron, Emily Mohl, Michele Koomen
Journal Article
Determining the Relative Mass Between the Nucleus and Electrons Modeling Lab
Freshman general science students already know the atom is composed of a nucleus containing protons and neutrons with electron circling the nucleus. This hands-on modeling lab allows students to visualize and discover the electrons mass is far less a...
By Gary Schlitz
Journal Article
Students with Visual Impairments can be Successful in Science
One of the goals of the Next Generation Science Standards is to make science accessible to all students, which includes students with disabilities such as blindness and visual impairments (BVI). However, educators of students with BVI have limited ex...
By Rhea Miles
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....
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 17, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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
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By Page Keeley
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 10, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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...
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 3, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 27, 2024
By Debra Shapiro