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Journal Article
Science 101: Does the Weather Affect Your Body?
This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue focuses on three major weather factors and how they affect the human body—temperature, humidity, and air pressure....
Journal Article
From Fish Tank to Fuel Tank: Engineering Photobioreactors in the Classroom
Grow algae in the classroom to explore bioenergy and related concepts....
Journal Article
Science 102: Triple-Dog Dare Ya
This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue presents a new challenge about why skin will stick to ice....
Journal Article
The Early Years: Preparing for Spring Gardening
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue helps students build an understanding of the effects of the Sun’s radiation on the surface of the Earth through hands-on gardening....
Journal Article
Food and Energy for All: Turning a Demonstration Into an Inquiry Activity
Explore the reactants of photosynthesis to explain that they are raw materials and not food....
NSTA Press Book
REVERE Award Winner, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers!...
By Terry Shiverdecker, Jessica Fries-Gaither
NSTA Kids
Next Time You See a Cloud (Library binding)
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!>Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science b...
NSTA Kids
Fragrant as a Flower: I Wonder Why
Follow your nose! This book invites you to learn what your sense of smell can teach you as you amble around town. Go along as a little boy listens to his dad’s tale about taking in the deliciousness of a pastry shop, the woodsy smells of a lumberya...
NSTA Kids
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science be...