All Equity resources
Blog Post
Contemporary Instructional Approaches to Promote STEM Learning for English Learners
The release of the report English Learners in STEM Subjects: Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and Lives (shortened to “the report” hereafter) (NASEM 2018) is timely, as three emerging forces shape the changing landscape of K–12 science educati...
By Okhee Lee
NSTA Press Book
Rainwater Analysis, Grade 5: STEM Road Map for Elementary School
What if you could challenge your fifth graders to design rainwater recycling systems to provide water for a fictional community garden? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!...
Journal Article
STEM Careers for the 21st Century
Welcome to the ninth issue of Connected Science Learning! Having spent most of my career building connections and supporting collaboration in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education, I am quite excited about my new role as CSL f...
By Beth Murphy
NSTA Press Book
Swing Set Makeover, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School
What if you could challenge your third graders to design a swing set that’s safe but still lots of fun? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!Swing Set Makeover outlines a journey that will steer your students toward auth...
Journal Article
Methods & Strategies: Responsive Teaching and High-Stakes Testing
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This article focuses on responsive teaching, an instructional approach where the teacher seeks to understand the substance of students’ ideas, to find “seeds of science�...
NSTA Press Book
STEM Education Now More Than Ever
In response to “these unconventional and uncertain years,” veteran educator Rodger W. Bybee has written a book that’s as thought-provoking as it is constructive. Now more than ever, he writes, America needs reminders of both the themes that mad...
By Rodger W. Bybee
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: Reading With a Purpose
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. Young students learn science and literacy through the Strategic Research Cycle....
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: Equity and the Maker Movement
Integrating children’s communities and social networks into making...
Journal Article
Editor's Note: Removing Barriers
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....