JoinAll Middle School resources
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This collection contains the reading assignments for the Fall 2019 semester. It is only open to those who are enrolled in the middle level science met...
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Teaching Environmental Awareness in Baltimore
A national movement, sparked by Richard Louv’s (2005) treatise Last Child in the Woods, has catalyzed collaborations among government agencies, scho...
By Sarah Haines, Chelsea McClure, and Symone Johnson
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Insect and Arthropod book chapters
Book chapters available via NSTA related to insects and their relatives....
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Modeling How Students Can Share Ideas and Make Sense of Phenomena by Aaron Mueller
One of the most important steps I take to elicit student ideas in the classroom is to establish a classroom culture that makes students feel comfortab...
By Cindy Workosky
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Blog Post
Under Indefinite Construction: Creating an NGSS-Friendly Classroom Community
When the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were first released, I struggled with how to create opportunities that allowed the student...
By Megan Rowlands Elmore
Journal Article
Innovation and progress in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce is critical to the growth of the United States in the glo...
By Sarah Rhodes-Ondi, and Maryam Ghadiri
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As several reports have shown, it is critical for teachers to understand instructional strategies that are consistent with the NGSS vision, as well as...
By Diane Johnson
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Insects! And Arthropod Lesson Plans
Collection of lesson plans I've found focused on insects and arthropod relatives....
NSTA Press Book
Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science, Grades 7–12
Many middle and high school teachers are educated to teach science content—they don’t anticipate that one day they may be teaching it to students ...
By Molly Weinburgh, Cecilia Silva, Kathy Horak Smith
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