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Connecting Science and Technology
Exploring the Nature of Science using historical short stories....
Journal Article
Students investigate this fascinating composite organism growing in the school yard....
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Editor's Corner: Smartphones: Challenge or Opportunity?
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Science 2.0: Choosing a 3-D Printer
This column shares web tools that support learning. Last month the authors discussed using a 3-D printer to help teach design thinking. This month the...
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Focus on Physics: Radiant Energy and Global Warming
This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's article discusses electromagnetic radiation....
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Idea Bank: Using Apps That Support Scientific Practices
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. For this article, the authors analyzed 93 educational applicat...
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Idea Bank: The Art of Chemistry
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This article describes a research-based investigation in which...
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Career of the Month: Social Media Manager
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Kelly Owen's career path to becoming a...
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Right to the Source: How the Telegraph Changed the World
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the 1853 map of telegraph stations in the United States, Cana...
NSTA Press Book
Adventures With Arthropods: Eco-Friendly Lessons for Middle School
If you’ve ever wished you could teach with tarantulas—or roly polys, or Madagascar hissing cockroaches—this is the resource for you. It tells ho...
By Ron Wagler
eBook
Adventures With Arthropods: Eco-Friendly Lessons for Middle School (e-book)
If you’ve ever wished you could teach with tarantulas—or roly polys, or Madagascar hissing cockroaches—this is the resource for you. It tells ho...
Book Chapter
In this lesson, students learn the basics about construction materials, the construction processes used in building tall towers, and the forces and ge...
Book Chapter
In this lesson, students learn about the engineering concept of learning from failure by examining the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers....
Book Chapter
New Technologies for High-Rise Buildings
In this lesson, student teams are challenged to examine the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Each team will develop a proposal for a n...
Interactive E-book Kids
Many different plants and animals live in any gven habitat, both on land and in the water. To explare this phenomenon, we follow a jumping spider name...