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  • Online Connections: Science and Children

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    Online Connections: Science and Children July/August 2021 Teaching Through Trade Books—Pushing, Pulling, and Predicting Force Patterns K-2 3-5 Engineering Encounters—Turn Up the Music! Turn Up The Music Supplemental Resources      Using Toys to Create a Global…

  • The Classroom Astronomer Spectrum Viewers: Elements, Mixtures, and Molecules; Indoor and Outdoor Lighting

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    The Classroom Astronomer Spectrum Viewers provide a handy, convenient classroom tool for identifying and learning about various spectra. The Viewers are rectangles of stiff, glossy cardboard (about 8.5”× 5.5”) with a…

  • Video-based quiz / engagement worksheets for LIGHT, SOUND, WAVES AND OTHER OSCILLATIONS

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    This is a collection of educational, standards-based videos with associated free student engagement worksheets / quizzes. The documents contain a paper version of the quiz plus links where you can download the free…

  • Calendar

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    Calendar July 2024Monday, Jul. 29Applications Open • Reservations of Exhibitor Workshops, NSTA National Conference in New OrleansHousing Registration Open • NSTA National Conference in New OrleansApplications Open • eCYBERMISSION Mini-GrantsApplications Open • Summer Teaching Opportunities With the Gains in the…

  • The Vernier Go Direct Sound Sensor: See Sounds in a New Light (Bluetooth)

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    As much as I loved field trips with my students, I found the bus rides to be excessively stressful. It wasn’t because of the teacher responsibilities or the student behavior, but because of the noise. The volume and…

  • NSTA Daily Do: How can light make dark shadows and bright reflections?

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  • Enhanced Ebook “magic act” engages students in fun science lessons about sound and light

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    When Rebecca Olien set out to write Sound All Around, The Amazing Light Show, an NSTA Enhanced EBook+, she knew a thing (or 20) about elementary schoolchildren, the book’s target audience. Olien was a classroom teacher…

  • NSTA Press® Sample Chapters

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    NSTA Press® Sample Chapters Looking for Science Activities? NSTA Press publishes science activities for teachers of kindergarten through college on a wide range of topics. We've posted sample chapters and activities from our books for free download so you can look inside. Be sure to search our online bookstore for…

  • Motor Impaired / Orthopedic Disability

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    Motor Impaired / Orthopedic Disability James Prescott Joule (1818–1889) was an English physicist who studied thermodynamics, leading to the famous “Joule’s Law.” He was born with a spinal disorder that required him to be home schooled. Motor impaired/orthopedic disabilities include a…

  • Newton’s Prisms

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  • Refraction

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  • Q: What are waves, and what are some things they can do?

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  • The Red Issue

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  • Learning Disabilities

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    Learning Disabilities A learning disability (LD) is a neurological disorder that causes difficulty in organizing information received, remembering it, and expressing it, and therefore affects a person's basic functions such as reading, writing, comprehension, and reasoning. In simple terms, a…

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