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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Science of Art
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue allows students to explore the components of STEAM through a favorite art supply, the crayon, and a beloved American tradition, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Pa...
Journal Article
Safety First: Safety Picks Up “STEAM”
This column shares safety information for your classroom. At the elementary level, teachers have inherently integrated STEAM, compared to their secondary-level counterparts. However, with this approach comes an even greater need for attention to safe...
NSTA Press Book
Solar Science: Exploring Sunspots, Seasons, Eclipses, and More
Solar Science offers more than three dozen hands-on, inquiry-based activities on many fascinating aspects of solar astronomy. The activities cover the Sun’s motions, space weather caused by the Sun, the measurement of time and seasons in our daily ...
By Dennis Schatz, Andrew Fraknoi
NSTA Press Book
A Copublication of Corwin Press and NSTA Press...
By Page Keeley
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: You Light Up My Life
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue engages students in basic concepts related to light....
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: Digital Notebooks for Digital Natives
Supporting early childhood science and engineering practices with e-notebooks and whiteboard applications....
Journal Article
Science 2.0: Do I Need a Robot?
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses telepresence robots and their use in the classroom....
Journal Article
Science 2.0: Did They Really Read It?
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses tech tools that reinforce student attention and help teachers assess student work done independently from a teacher's direct observation....