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Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Is a Brick a Rock?
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This issue explores a probe about lines of agreement with opposing views....
Journal Article
Engineering Encounters: How Can We Store Water During a Drought?
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This issue shares information about a sustainability engineering design pr...
Blog Post
What Does 3-Dimensional Space Look Like
When transitioning my classroom instruction to three dimensional learning, I decided to start with one or two areas in each unit or lesson set where I...
By Korei Martin
Blog Post
Cereal to Stream Tables: Putting Stability and Change in Students’ Hands
Stability and Change is one of the seven Crosscutting Concepts (CCs) that can be difficult to convey in a lesson. Other CCs like Patterns, Cause and E...
By Cindy Workosky
NSTA Press Book
Designing Meaningful STEM Lessons
Sure, there are lots of cool STEM activities you can use in class. But do they really help your students learn science? This book shows you how to tak...
By Milton Huling, Jackie Speake Dwyer
NSTA Press Book
Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 1, Second Edition: 25 Formative Assessment Probes
This is the new updated edition of the first book in the bestselling Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series. Like the first edition of volume 1, t...
By Page Keeley
Journal Article
Nurturing Local-to-Global Thinking
Third graders explore the world with technology and citizen science, plus an engaging reading and exercise component!...
Journal Article
Fifth graders practice data collection as they examine soil....
Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Students’ Ideas About Watersheds
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. Water-quality monitoring engages students in learning about watersheds and watershed ste...
NSTA Press Book
A Head Start on Life Science: Encouraging a Sense of Wonder
Nurture curiosity and even joy in the youngest scientists. The 24 inquiry-based lessons in this lively collection show you how. The activities are org...
By William Straits