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NSTA Press Book
College Science Teachers Guide to Assessment
What is assessment? How do you assess your students’ progress? How do they assess themselves and their peers? How do you assess the effectiveness of your own teaching? College Science Teachers Guide to Assessment provides busy professors with...
NSTA Press Book
Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 3: Another 25 Formative Assessment Probes
Because you demanded it! Since publication of Volume 1 of this series, thousands of teachers are using these innovative classroom tools to improve student learning in science. Following in the footsteps of earlier volumes in the Uncovering Student Id...
By Page Keeley, Francis Eberle, Chad Dorsey
NSTA Press Book
Prize-winning scientist and bestselling author James Trefil contends that in order to participate fully in the democratic process, people must understand fundamental scientific concepts. In Why Science? Trefil details the concepts needed in order to ...
By James Trefil
NSTA Press Book
Exemplary Science in Informal Education Settings: Standards-Based Success Stories
Just as science education doesn’t stop at the schoolhouse door, neither should effective application of the National Science Education Standards. Exemplary Science in Informal Education Settings shows real-world examples of how science education re...
NSTA Press Book
NSTA Guide to Planning School Science Facilities, Second Edition
Science-learning spaces are different from general-purpose classrooms. So if your school is planning to build or renovate, you need the fully updated NSTA Guide to Planning School Science Facilities. It’s the definitive resource for every K-12 scho...
By LaMoine L. Motz , James T. Biehle, Sandra S. West
NSTA Press Book
Radioactive Waste: Resources for Environmental Literacy
Since World War II, hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive materials have been produced in the United States. How we will dispose of nuclear waste is a controversial issue with a large technical component. This book provides a useful resource...
By Environmental Literacy Council, National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
NSTA Press Book
Assessment in Science: Practical Experiences and Education Research
If you want the latest research about assessment techniques that really work, you want Assessment in Science. This collection of informative, up-to-date reports is by authors who are practicing K-12 classroom teachers and university-based educators a...
NSTA Press Book
Virus and the Whale: Exploring Evolution in Creatures Small and Large
With this lively book of activities as their guide, students can follow seven scientists into their labs and out to the field to discover how evolution works. Meanwhile, you’ll benefit from the practical help the book provides with the twin challen...