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Designing Facilities for the Middle School (6-8)
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A high-quality middle school science program requires science classrooms with safe, well-designed laboratory space, and school designers must consider the distance students will have to travel to these classes. Trying…
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STEM Education in the Middle School Classroom
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In this chapter, find out how STEM lessons were first incorporated into a sixth-grade classroom in the Lebanon Special School District, a small community in Middle Tennessee. These students never gave much thought to…
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K-12 Progressions, Middle School
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This free sample chapter shows the K–12 progression of each of the components in the foundation box (e.g., practices, core ideas, or connection to nature of science). These matrixes will help you understand what…
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OpenSciEd Middle School Curriculum Launch and Unit Launch Workshops 2025
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OpenSciEd Middle School Curriculum Launch and Unit Launch Workshops 2025
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NSTA Press Book |
REVERE Award Winner, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers! Great news for multitasking middle school teachers: Science educators Terry Shiverdecker and Jessica Fries-Gaither can help you blend…
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Human Impacts on Our Climate, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School
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New in 2020! What if you could challenge your sixth graders to come up with a way to help tackle climate change in their own community? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Human…
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Doing Good Science in Middle School, Expanded 2nd Edition: A Practical STEM Guide
NSTA Press Book |
“We are among those who have come to enjoy the blossoming intellects, often comical behaviors, and insatiable curiosity of middle schoolers—and choose to work with them! With more than 130 years of combined experience…
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NSTA Press Book |
“This sourcebook was created because science should be memorable, not memorizable.” — from the Introduction to The Everyday Science Sourcebook, Revised 2nd Edition Think of this unique reference book as…
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Team Teaching: Science in the Middle School Classroom
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Co-teachers in science at the middle school level must address co-teaching issues as well as the unique challenges of instructing middle school learners. Middle school is just that—in the middle, between elementary…
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Get a Grip! A Middle School Engineering Challenge
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Get a Grip! is a problem-based unit that places middle school students in the role of engineers who are challenged to design and construct prosthetic arms for amputees in a war-torn country. The students use common…
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From NGSS to Instruction in a Middle School Classroom
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For middle school science teachers, one of the most fundamental changes involves curriculum, instruction, and assessments. This chapter uses performance expectations from the life sciences as the basis for a description…
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Engaging Middle School Students with the Nature of Particles, Waves, and Light
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This three-day unit engages students in the exploration of light behavior and makes connections to the advanced idea of the wave-particle duality of light. Students begin by exploring the behaviors of marbles (particles…
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