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When informal science institutions (ISIs) offer professional learning opportunities to teachers to support science in schools, they create the potenti...
By Dr. Vanessa Lujan
Journal Article
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. ...
NSTA Press Book
Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science, Grades 7–12
Many middle and high school teachers are educated to teach science content—they don’t anticipate that one day they may be teaching it to students ...
By Molly Weinburgh, Cecilia Silva, Kathy Horak Smith
Blog Post
Elementary Science—Best Practices for All Students
Envision a room filled with noise, excited whispers, and students shouting across tables. Piles of tinfoil, plastic cups, scissors, string, and tape a...
By Cindy Workosky
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) (NA...
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 volu...
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 Curric...
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First-Graders Modeling Day and Night: Making Sense of a Phenomenon
As a first-grade teacher in Detroit with predominantly Latinx students and English language learners, I worked for several weeks at the end of last sc...
By Cindy Workosky
Blog Post
Modeling in Science Instruction
With the shift toward three-dimensional teaching and learning that the Next Generation Science Standards requires, the Crosscutting Concept of Modelin...
By Cindy Workosky
Blog Post
How Teachers Are Retooling Lessons Using the EQuIP Rubric
Sometimes finding the right book or article can be the key to opening our minds to new ideas. A few years back, NSTA published a special journal serie...
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A Learning Trajectory for Sensemaking in Science
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offer teachers the opportunity to consider teaching science in a new way. We help students engage with, w...
By Cindy Workosky
Journal Article
Engineering Encounters: The Paper Airplane Challenge
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month's issue students learn about variables and trials while desi...