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The Power of Questioning: Guiding Student Investigations

This pedagogical picture book is a powerful tool in a small package....

By Julie V. McGough, Lisa M. Nyberg

Elementary Assessment Curriculum Instructional Materials Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Teacher Preparation

Teacher's Toolkit: The Argumentation and Evaluation Guide: Encouraging NGSS-Based Critical Thinking

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...

Middle School General Science Assessment Inquiry NGSS Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

NSTA Press Book

NGSS for All Students

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...

Elementary High School Middle School Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Equity Inclusion Interdisciplinary Professional Learning old Research Teacher Preparation

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Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science

What do you get when you bring together two of NSTA’s bestselling authors to ponder ways to deepen students’ conceptual understanding of science? A fascinating combination of deep thinking about science teaching, field-tested strategies you can u...

By Richard Konicek-Moran, Page Keeley

Elementary High School Middle School General Science Assessment Curriculum Instructional Materials Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation

The Early Years: Where Does the "Warm" Go?

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....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Physical Science Crosscutting Concepts Inquiry Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

Methods and Strategies: KLEWS to Explanation-Building in Science

Journal Article

Methods and Strategies: KLEWS to Explanation-Building in Science

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue provides an update to the KLEW chart, which adds a tool for explanation building....

Elementary General Science Assessment Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

Science Formative Assessment, Volume 2: 50 More Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning

NSTA Press Book

Science Formative Assessment, Volume 2: 50 More Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning

A Copublication of Corwin Press and NSTA Press This book shows readers how to use assessment to inform instruction and learning in the science classroom. In the bestselling first volume, Page Keeley shared 75 techniques that help K-12 science teache...

By Page Keeley

Elementary High School Middle School General Science Assessment Curriculum Instructional Materials Inquiry Lesson Plans Phenomena Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Research Teacher Preparation

Methods and Strategies: The Future of Farming

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....

Elementary Life Science Mathematics Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary

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