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Journal Article
Scope on Safety: Safety in Videos
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue addresses safety issues that accompany the increased access to and use of experiments found in videos....
NSTA Press Book
Translating the NGSS for Classroom Instruction
With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), you need a resource to help you answer pressing questions about how the standards fit with your curriculum, instruction, and assessments. Rodger W. Bybee has written Translating the NG...
By Rodger Bybee
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: Flying Machines
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue uses two fiction trade books to inspire students to design and test various flying machines....
NSTA Press Book
Winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award from PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers!What ideas do young children bring to their science learning, and how does their thinking change as they engage in “science talk”? Find...
By Page Keeley
NSTA Press Book
The New Science Teacher's Handbook: What You Didn't Learn From Student Teaching
“One of the first activities I ask new science teachers to do in my methods course is to think of a memorable science activity from their past. Whether it’s creating an exploding vinegar and baking soda volcano, dissecting a frog, or building a m...
By Sarah Reeves Young, Mike Roberts
Journal Article
Teaching Through Trade Books: Habitable Homes
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue focuses on the diversity of different animal habitats and the adaptations of the organisms within them....
Journal Article
Developing and Using Models to Align With NGSS
Bring the Earth-Moon-Sun system into alignment with the Next Generation Science Standards....
Journal Article
Incorporating Models Into Science Teaching to Meet the Next Generation Science Standards
Discover what the NGSS has to say about the proper use of models in the middle school classroom....