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Formative Assessment Probes: No More Plants
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to uncover students' ideas about interdependency and change....
NSTA Press Book
The Power of Questioning: Guiding Student Investigations
This pedagogical picture book is a powerful tool in a small package....
By Julie V. McGough, Lisa M. Nyberg
Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Soil and Dirt: The Same or Different?
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores children's commonly held ideas about soil....
Journal Article
Teacher's Toolkit: The Argumentation and Evaluation Guide: Encouraging NGSS-Based Critical Thinking
In this article the authors focus on how you can use a new tool—argumentation and evaluation guide—to enhance argumentation in the classroom, evaluate a claim made by others, and make and explain claims based on evidence from laboratory experimen...
NSTA Press Book
Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science
What do you get when you bring together two of NSTA’s bestselling authors to ponder ways to deepen students’ conceptual understanding of science? A fascinating combination of deep thinking about science teaching, field-tested strategies you can u...
By Richard Konicek-Moran, Page Keeley
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: KLEWS to Explanation-Building in Science
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue provides an update to the KLEW chart, which adds a tool for explanation building....
NSTA Press Book
A Copublication of Corwin Press and NSTA Press This book shows readers how to use assessment to inform instruction and learning in the science classroom. In the bestselling first volume, Page Keeley shared 75 techniques that help K-12 science teache...
By Page Keeley