Myths About English Language Learning

Journal Article | March 2015

How to overcome misconceptions and help ELLs learn both science and English.

Editor's Note: Identifying a Progression of Learning

Journal Article | June 2015

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.

Are "New Building" Learning Gains Sustainable?

Journal Article | June 2015

New science facilities have become a reality on many college campuses in the last few decades. Large time investments in creating shared programmatic vision and designing flexible spaces, partnered with large fiscal…

Ring the Bell: An Asynchronous Learning Experience

Journal Article | March 2014

Use household materials to engineer your own Rube Goldberg device that links a series of physical actions to ring a bell.

Informal Science Learning in the Formal Classroom

Journal Article | June 2014

Creating a quality partnership with informal science institutions.

The Benefits of Formative Assessments for Teaching and Learning

Journal Article | August 2010

Formative assessments are usually informal and can range from oral question-and-answer sessions in class to performance events or quizzes. Stiggens and DuFour (2009) state that teachers and schools should use formative…

Editor’s Corner: New Tools for Learning

Journal Article | September 2010

Technology has the potential to transform science education through online social network collaboration, satellite navigation and imaging, field and laboratory digital probeware, wikis and blogs, sophisticated online…

Science 2.0: The NSTA Learning Center

Journal Article | March 2012

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue focuses on the electronic portal: The NSTA Learning Center.

Using Simple Machines to Leverage Learning

Journal Article | February 2008

What would your students say if you told them they could lift you off the ground using a block and a board? Using a simple machine, they’ll find out they can, and they’ll learn about work, energy, and motion in the…

Science Sampler: Hypothesis-based learning

Journal Article | October 2005

Are visions of students hypothesizing, designing experiments to test their explanations, analyzing data, writing formal publications of results, and debating over scientific procedures in an attempt to justify their…

Science Learning Environments and Action Research

Journal Article | August 2006

A learning environment survey can be easily used in your science classroom to evaluate new instructional approaches, to spark enthusiasm, and to produce evidence showing that you are indeed becoming a reflective…

Vision + Community = Outdoor Learning Stations

Journal Article | February 2013

Local partners can provide the expertise, labor, and even funding to transform your school's outdoor areas into outdoor learning stations.

Trade Books for Learning: An Author's View

Journal Article | October 2006

What other ecosystem is as mysterious and compelling as the rain forest and home to innumerable living things that children may never have seen or heard of before? Answer: mangroves! These fascinating and important…

A New Year for Connected Science Learning

Journal Article | January 2018

Connected Science Learning Editor Dennis Schatz provides readers with news about behind-the-scenes updates for the journal.   Funding to support Connected Science Learning We are delighted to announce that The…

Taking an Ecosystem Approach to STEM Learning

Journal Article | February 2016

Explore the Synergies project, a case study for how to comprehensively integrate three exemplary teaching practices into a STEM-learning ecosystem.   The nature of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and…