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Lesson Plan
NSTA Press Book
Uncovering Student Ideas About Engineering and Technology: 32 New Formative Assessment Probes
New in 2020! Download and read a sample chapter from this book to learn more.Have you been wondering how well your students understand engineering and technology concepts? Have you been wishing for formative assessment tools in both English and Spani...
By Page Keeley, Cary Sneider, Mihir Ravel
Journal Article
By Kirsten D. Edwards, Amelia Wenk Gotwals, and Tanya S. Wright
Journal Article
High school students grew up online and in video games. FLEET is a free ship-design simulator that reaches students in their native environment—video games. It is also a physics simulator that applies content first learned through hands-on sci...
By MICHAEL BRISCOE
Journal Article
Interactive science simulations (sims) have become popular tools for science educators, and research confirms that sims can improve student learning (Rutten, van Joolingen, and van der Veen 2012). Over the past 15 years, the PhET Interac- tive S...
By ARGENTA PRICE, CARL WIEMAN, AND KATHERINE PERKINS
Journal Article
Engineering Explorations are curriculum modules that engage children across contexts in learning about science and engineering. We used them to leverage multiple education sectors (K–12 schools, museums, higher education, and afterschool programs...
By Danielle B. Harlow, Ron Skinner, Tarah Connolly, and Alexandria Muller
Blog Post
How PLCs Helped Move Us Toward Equitable High School Assessment Practices
My colleagues and I began using units intentionally designed for the NGSS for biology in early 2017. We started with a high-quality unit evaluated by my colleagues on the Science Peer Review Panel, and eventually used a full program from the unit’s...
By Holly Hereau
eBook
Creating Engineering Design Challenges: Success Stories From Teachers (e-book)
If you’ve ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engineering Design Challenges is the book for you. At its core are 13 units grounded in challenge-based le...
NSTA Press Book
Scientific literacy for all students requires a deep understanding of the three dimensions of science education: disciplinary content, scientific and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts. If you actively engage students in using and apply...
By Page Keeley, Joyce Tugel
NSTA Press Book
Creating Engineering Design Challenges: Success Stories From Teachers
If you’ve ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engineering Design Challenges is the book for you. At its core are 13 units grounded in challenge-based le...