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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...
Journal Article
The Early Years: Creating a Possibility-Rich Classroom Environment
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue describes an activity that creates a “possibi...
Blog Post
Scaffolding the Practice of Asking Questions and Defining Problems
With the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), teachers are wondering how to teach their students to do the science and engineerin...
By Cindy Workosky
NSTA Press Book
Car Crashes, Grade 12: STEM Road Map for High School
What if you could challenge your 12th graders to understand car crashes in the context of physical forces, manufacturing challenges, government safety...
Journal Article
The Early Years: Begin With Open Exploration
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue discusses ways to encourage children to engage ...
Blog Post
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
Recently, my colleagues and I had an exchange with some teachers in one of our professional development programs. One teacher said, “I think I do a ...
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
Journal Article
The Early Years: Making Sense of Their World
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this issue students document the apparent movement of t...
Journal Article
Formative Assessment Probes: Is a Brick a Rock?
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This issue explores a probe about lines of agreement with opposing views....