All Middle School resources

This column explores maker spaces, engineering, and more. This article presents a lesson that allows students to engage with robotics as they work through three modules exploring sequences. ...

Middle School General Science STEM Technology Makerspace

Journal Article

Teacher's Toolkit: Using the Five Practices to Facilitate a Meaningful Discussion on Plate Tectonics in a Middle School Classroom

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This issue explains how you can encourage abstract reasoning and scientific thinking through a Five Practices Discussion....

Middle School Earth & Space Science General Science NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

Journal Article

Surface Tension and Surfactants

By Todd Hoover

Middle School Interdisciplinary Physical Science

Journal Article

Crossing the Amazon by LEGO

An interdisciplinary STEM adventure...

By Daniel Edelen, Sarah B. Bush, Megan Nickels

Elementary Middle School Engineering STEM Technology

Blog Post

Using Discourse With High School Science Students

High school students love to talk. Covering topics from music to memes, the hallway conversations are always lively. But when students enter the classroom, they suddenly have nothing to say. I believe it’s because students don’t know how to talk ...

By Cindy Workosky

Elementary Middle School Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Lesson Plans NGSS Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

Blog Post

One District’s Path to Improving Student Discourse

If you’ve spent any time exploring the shifts in NGSS instructional practices you will understand the call for “less sage on the stage and more guide on the side.” While such a metaphor can be applied to a variety of science classroom settings,...

By Sean Musselman

Elementary Middle School High School NGSS Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Multimedia Connected STEM Learning With Middle School Students

Find out how Denver middle school students practiced digital storytelling as they delved deeply into STEM topics that interested them.  ...

By Janelle M. Johnson, Jayme Margolin-Sneider, and Monica Moreno-Martinez

Middle School Informal Education Interdisciplinary STEM Technology

NSTA Kids

The Beaks of Birds

Come along on a tour of the wonderful world of birds and their beaks. This book is the story of a child and two grown-up friends on a jaunt across their yard, in a park, past a pond, and through the pages of a photo album. Like them, you’ll find yo...

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