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Journal Article
Integrating Careers Into Your NGSS Lessons
Middle school is a critical time when students form ideas and preferences regarding careers they might pursue. Employers sometimes have difficulties f...
By Kyle Gray, Jill Maroo, Alan Czarnetzki, Sadik Kucuksari
Journal Article
Scope on the Skies regular column. An SEL-based look at comets, their impact on society, and how they are named....
By Bob Riddle
Journal Article
Expanding Language Use: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners’ Sensemaking in Science
Students bring with them rich cultural and linguistic ways of knowing and communicating when engaged in figuring out explanations of phenomena. Howeve...
By Samuel Lee, Benjamin DiFrancesco, Caitlin Fine, Katherine McNeill
Journal Article
Fieldwork Fridays: Connecting Scientific Learning to Nature
Building routines around place-based learning allows students to apply their scientific learning to nature and form a connection with their local envi...
By Katie Coppens
Journal Article
Snapshot Safari: Elephant Edition
Citizen Science article for the September/ October 2024 issue of Science Scope...
By Jill Nugent
Journal Article
Using Conferences to Give Students a Sense of Belonging
Conducting student conferences similar to those used by English Language Arts teachers to improve reading skills can give middle school science studen...
By Tasha Kirby
Journal Article
In the face of the escalating climate crisis, effective climate education is imperative, not only for imparting knowledge, but also for inspiring acti...
By Emily Godin, Jo'el Johanson
Journal Article
Dyeing to Last: Using Natural Dyes to Create an Ideal Fabric
In this project-based lesson, students explore how chemistry concepts relate to creative expression by investigating a variety of dyeing conditions. T...
By Tyler St. Clair, Makayla Kraetsch, Mia Arrieta
Web Seminar
Archive: Strategies on Applying for a Science Teaching Position, November 21, 2024
Preservice educators and those wanting to transition into education from a different career have tools and experiences that are directly applicable to...
NSTA Press Book
Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 2: 30 New Formative Assessment Probes
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By Page Keeley
Web Seminar
Science Update: Exoplanets: Finding Life in the Galaxy, January 30, 2025
Join us on Thursday, January 30, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about the search for planets located outside our Solar System....
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: The Rocks and Minerals of Climate Change, November 14, 2024
Climate change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our generation, and generations to come. But what's rock got to do with it?&n...