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Crosscutting Concepts: Strengthening Science and Engineering Learning

Maybe you have a good grasp of disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices—critical parts of the Next Generation Science Standards...

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Disciplinary Core Ideas: Reshaping Teaching and Learning

Like all enthusiastic teachers, you want your students to see the connections between important science concepts so they can grasp how the world works...

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Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Expanded 2nd Edition: Using Children's Books to Guide Inquiry, 3-6

How do you improve upon perfection? For years, new and experienced elementary school teachers alike have extolled the virtues of Picture-Perfect Scien...

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Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science

What do you get when you bring together two of NSTA’s bestselling authors to ponder ways to deepen students’ conceptual understanding of science? ...

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The NSTA Atlas of the Three Dimensions

New in 2020! Download and read a sample chapter from this book to learn more.A key aspect of learning in K–12 education is the idea that what studen...

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Activating Students' Ideas: Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence

Science teachers face an incredible challenging task of combining research on how students learn best, the three-dimensions of the Science Education F...

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Translating the NGSS for Classroom Instruction

With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), you need a resource to help you answer pressing questions about how the standards fi...

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Reimagining the Science Department

What if you could change the department-level factors that don’t support teaching and learning? Explore answers to this fascinating question and man...

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Big Data, Small Devices: Investigating the Natural World Using Real-Time Data

Now your students can transform their mobile phones and tablets into tools for learning about everything from weather to water quality. Big Data, Smal...

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Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12

This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do we...

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The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the Three Dimensions

Since its release in 2014, the NSTA Quick-Reference Guide has become an essential tool for educators across the country to explore the complex structu...

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 1: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes

Winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award from Association of Educational Publishers!Author Page Keeley continues to provide K–12 teachers with ...