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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
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...
Journal Article
Supporting second-grade students’ thinking using the PEOE strategy...
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: Scaffolding for Failure
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This issue helps students navigate Engineering Design Failure. ...
Book Chapter
Understanding Climate Change, Grades 7–12 (Book Sample)
Get help teaching one of the hottest topics in science with Understanding Climate Change, Grades 7–12. This nine-session module is written to be pra...
Journal Article
The Early Years: Teaching the <i>M</i> in STEM
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue focuses on teaching STEM lessons that have an e...
Journal Article
The Early Years: Discovering Their Sense of the World
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue aims to engage children in a project-based lear...
Blog Post
Science Class: A Place Where Children Should Be Seen and Heard
I recently observed a lesson about how shadows change throughout the day, and I was fascinated by the amount of time the teacher and the class took to...
By Cindy Workosky
Journal Article
The Early Years: Analyzing Media Representations of Animals
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue aims to engage children in analyzing and interp...