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Guest Editorial: How to Integrate STEM Into Early Childhood Education

An opinion piece highlighting excerpts from the new report STEM Starts Early: Grounding Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in Early Childhood, co-published by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and New America....

Early Childhood General Science STEM Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Engineering Encounters: The Paper Airplane Challenge

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month's issue students learn about variables and trials while designing an investigation....

Elementary Physical Science STEM 5E Multilingual Learners

Journal Article

Science 102: Area of a Circle Conundrum

This column shares exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue presents a new challenge and answers the Match Magic challenge from last month....

Elementary Middle School STEM Inquiry Phenomena

Journal Article

Engineering Encounters: Teaching Educators About Engineering

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue describes preservice elementary teachers learning engineering principles from engineers....

Postsecondary Engineering STEM Interdisciplinary Preservice Science Education

NSTA Press Book

Transportation in the Future, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School

What if you could challenge your third graders to design the train of the future? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Transportation in the Future outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic pro...

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NSTA Press Book

Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning

This is the book that will flip the way you think about STEM from “not me” to “I’m in!” Author Jeff Weld is the director of the acclaimed Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council. He sees STEM as “a white-hot, transformative revolution in ...

By Jeff Weld

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Blog Post

You Teach What? I’m So Sorry! Building a Better Body and Building Better Argumentation

I am always amazed at the looks on people’s faces when I tell them I teach middle school. They seem to pity me for having a position I chose and love! They inform me that middle school “tween-agers” are argumentative, stubborn, and at times, ad...

By Cindy Workosky

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Journal Article

Editor's Note: The “Fundamental Tools” of Science

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

Elementary General Science Mathematics STEM Science and Engineering Practices