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What Does It Really Take to Get High School Students to Make Their Ideas Visible?

Asking high school students to reveal what they really think about what causes a natural or designed phenomenon is risky business. Risky in that it re...

By Angie Berk, Jen MacColl and Kristen Moorhead

High School Biology Equity Inquiry Physics Teaching Strategies

Going Public: Revealing Student Thinking in Science by Missy Holzer

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Going Public: Revealing Student Thinking in Science by Missy Holzer

Our classrooms are dynamic places where young learners gather to figure out the natural world. How can we be sure they are all making sense of the phe...

By Kate Falk

Middle School Assessment Equity Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

Making Students’ Thinking Visible Through Discussion by Dana McCusker and Marisa Miller

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Making Students’ Thinking Visible Through Discussion by Dana McCusker and Marisa Miller

As the assistant director of science for Mastery Charter Schools I have had the pleasure of working with Dana McCusker and seeing her excellent teachi...

By Kate Falk

Elementary Earth & Space Science Equity Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

It's Still Debatable! Using Socioscientific Issues to Develop Scientific Literacy, K–5

NSTA Press Book

It's Still Debatable! Using Socioscientific Issues to Develop Scientific Literacy, K–5

It’s Still Debatable! encourages scientific literacy by showing you how to teach the content and thinking skills K–5 students need to explore real...

By Sami Kahn

Elementary Informal Education Preschool Inquiry Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Advocacy Citizen Science Interdisciplinary Literacy News

Linking Science and Engineering Through Good Questions

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Linking Science and Engineering Through Good Questions

Engineering design projects are a wonderful opportunity for students to develop science disciplinary core ideas (DCIs). (As many of you know, with the...

By Greg Bartus

Elementary Disciplinary Core Ideas Inquiry STEM Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

Journal Article

Team-Based Inquiry

Regardless of the setting in which learning takes place, identifying the goals and intended outcomes of an educational experience, then measuring ho...

By Sarah Cohn

Informal Education Administration Inquiry

NSTA Press Book

Radioactivity, Grade 11: STEM Road Map for High School

What if you could challenge your 11th graders to figure out the best response to a partial meltdown at a nuclear reactor in fictional Gammatown, USA? ...

High School Environmental Science STEM Curriculum Instructional Materials Inquiry NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Literacy New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education

NSTA Press Book

A Head Start on Science, Second Edition: Encouraging a Sense of Wonder

Imagine what fun it could be for 3- to 7-year-olds to engage in a game of Prism Play or Magnetic Scavenger Hunt or Where Did the Shadows Go? Then imag...

By William C. Ritz, William Straits

Early Childhood Elementary Informal Education Pre-service Teachers Preschool Earth & Space Science Life Science Physical Science Curriculum Instructional Materials Inquiry Lesson Plans Phenomena Teaching Strategies Multicultural

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