All Middle School resources
NSTA Press Book
Exemplary Science for Building Interest in STEM Careers
National standards encourage science teachers to help “increase student economic productivity through the use of the knowledge, understandings, and ...
NSTA Press Book
Integrating Engineering and Science in Your Classroom
“I still remember my very first day as a teacher. A few days earlier, my principal had given me advice: ‘Whatever you do, do not start with an ove...
NSTA Press Book
The NSTA Ready-Reference Guide to Safer Science, Volume 2
“Most science teachers and supervisors have anemic preservice preparation on securing and maintaining safer work environments in academic laboratori...
By Kenneth Russell Roy
NSTA Press Book
This Is Your Brain: Teaching About Neuroscience and Addiction Research
“The need for students’ understanding of the value of the neurosciences—and the damaging effects of illicit drug use, the mechanisms of addictio...
By Terra Nova Learning Systems
NSTA Press Book
Rise and Shine: A Practical Guide for the Beginning Science Teacher
Rise and Shine provides a friendly support system that new science teachers can turn to in their first days, months, and even years in the classroom. ...
By Linda Froschauer, Mary L. Bigelow
NSTA Press Book
“This sourcebook was created because science should be memorable, not memorizable.” — from the Introduction to The Everyday Science Sourcebook, ...
By Lawrence F. Lowery
NSTA Press Book
Teaching Science Through Trade Books
“‘What was your favorite book as a child?’ In more than 10 years of facilitating workshops, we have never heard anyone reply, ‘My fourth-grad...
By Christine Anne Royce, Emily Morgan, Karen Ansberry
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ understanding of the Earth- Sun-Moon system well enough to explain the causes of Moon...