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Blog Post
Identifying and Implementing Instructional Materials in Middle School
Identifying and implementing science instructional materials that equitably engage students in active learning of science concepts, practices, sensema...
By Michael Heinz, Erin Michael Escher, Ellen Ebert
Journal Article
Sphero Robots and the Periodic Table
Students review the periodic table by coding robots. ...
By CHRISTINE HERALD
Journal Article
Collaborative science projects you can join ...
By Jill Nugent
Blog Post
When informal science institutions (ISIs) offer professional learning opportunities to teachers to support science in schools, they create the potenti...
By Dr. Vanessa Lujan
Blog Post
Out-of-School Time (OST) organizations play a vital role in our education system by providing youth with ways of discovering and exploring the world o...
By Dr. Irene Porro
NSTA Press Book
Making Sense of Science and Religion: Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond
The authors of Making Sense of Science and Religion believe that addressing interactions between science and religion is part of all science educators...
By Joseph W. Shane, Lee Meadows, Ronald S. Hermann, Ian C. Binns
Virtual Conference
Blended STEM learning experiences that connect in-school and out-of-school learning are a key recommendation in the recently released America’s Stra...
Blog Post
Arguing From Evidence to Discover the ‘Why’
In my science classroom, students look at evidence all the time. Sometimes it is in photos or videos; sometimes in charts and graphs; and sometimes we...
By Rebecca Schumacher
Journal Article
Saturday Seminars for Urban Scholars Program
The K–16 academic journey to a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is often described as having serious barriers, s...
By Michele W. McColgan, Robert J. Colesante, Albert G. Andrade, and Kenneth Robin
Journal Article
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
Blog Post
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