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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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Science 101: Why Do Computers Keep Getting Smaller and Smaller?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses the history of why computers have reduced ...

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The Engineering Design Process: A Middle School Approach

To support the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Middle School Engineering Design, we have three goals for our students: to define problems acc...

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Science 101: Can Electromagnetic Waves Affect Emotions?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses electromagnetic waves....

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How to Choose Good Phenomena

When I began aligning my instruction to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), I got lost in the details. But when I realized that phenomena co...

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Using the Crosscutting Concepts to Scaffold Student Thinking

At the recent NSTA National Conference in Los Angeles, three-dimensional learning was, of course, a major topic of discussion. When those discussions ...

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Digging Deeper: Modeling

At the core of a Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) classroom is the sequence of exposing students to an interesting natural phenomenon, having ...

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Digging Deeper: Designing Solutions

This month’s Digging Deeper column for the Next Gen Navigator focuses on the practice of constructing explanations and designing solutions, and spec...

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Editor's Note: Teaching Energy Is Compelling

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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