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Class Pack
Amazing Caterpillars ClassPack: Grades K-5
Based on the award-winning, best-selling Picture-Perfect STEM series, this ClassPack pairs effortlessly with the Picture-Perfect STEM Lesson to combine reading comprehension, literacy, and science in your classroom! Using Even More Picture-Perfect Sc...
Class Pack
Sounds All Around ClassPack: Grades K-5
Based on the award-winning, best-selling Picture-Perfect STEM series, this ClassPack pairs effortlessly with the Picture-Perfect STEM Grades K-5 Lesson "Sounds All Around" to combine reading comprehension, literacy, and science in your classroom! Usi...
Class Pack
Harnessing the Wind ClassPack: Grades K-5
Based on the award-winning, best-selling Picture-Perfect STEM series, this ClassPack pairs effortlessly with the Picture-Perfect STEM Grades K-5 Lesson "Harnessing the Wind" to combine reading comprehension, literacy, and science in your classroom! ...
Class Pack
The Wind Blew ClassPack: Grades K-5
Based on the award-winning, best-selling Picture-Perfect STEM series, this ClassPack pairs effortlessly with the Picture-Perfect STEM Grades K-5 Lesson "The Wind Blew" to combine reading comprehension, literacy, and science in your classroom! Using ...
Class Pack
Float Your Boat ClassPack: Grades K-5
Using Even More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K–5 in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—a...
Journal Article
Teacher's Toolkit: The Argumentation and Evaluation Guide: Encouraging NGSS-Based Critical Thinking
In this article the authors focus on how you can use a new tool—argumentation and evaluation guide—to enhance argumentation in the classroom, evaluate a claim made by others, and make and explain claims based on evidence from laboratory experimen...
NSTA Press Book
It’s challenging to teach science well to all students while connecting your lessons to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This unique book portrays real teaching scenarios written by the teachers on the NGSS Diversity and Equity Team. T...
Journal Article
The Early Years: Where Does the "Warm" Go?
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue helps children learn about the transfer of heat from one material to another....
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: The Future of Farming
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes an integrated, multidisciplinary unit that introduces second-grade students to hydroponic gardening....
Journal Article
The Early Years: The Building Blocks of Measurement
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue shares an activity in which students can learn about position, size, and amount....