|
NSTA is the largest organization in the world committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. They publish books and journals for science teachers from kindergarten through college. |
Featured NSTA Backlist Titles
Available November 2019
The book also offers guidance on fostering professional development to support and grow your school’s engineering education practice. Use it to help you change your classroom environment, empower students, and move toward a more
student-centered classroom culture that leads to deeper learning. |
Available November 2019
Who knew that small, plant-eating mammals called pikas helped scientists find new ways to survive extreme weather events? Your students will learn about amazing scientific advancements like this when you use the 20 lessons in Discovery Engineering in Biology. The book is a lively way to blend history, real-world perspectives, 21st-century skills, and engineering into your biology or STEM curriculum.
|
Available October 2019
Instructional sequence definitely does matter when it comes to helping children in grades 3 to 5 learn science. That’s why this book focuses on showing you how to do two things: (1) make simple shifts in the way you arrange and combine activities and (2) put the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) into practice.
|
Available September 2019
The book uses science-related societal issues, or socioscientific issues, to help your K–5 students develop scientific literacy as you encourage them to become informed citizens. A research-based framework is the basis for 14 classroom-tested lesson plans that support the Next Generation Science Standards, link to the Common Core State Standards, National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, and C3 Framework, and are developmentally appropriate for diverse elementary classrooms. The book also includes a chapter especially for use in methods courses and professional development programs.
|
Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science Vol 3.
|
Understanting Climate Chage
|
Supporting emergent Multilingual Learners in Science
|
Staging Family Science Nights
By: Donna Governor and Denise Webb
ISBN: 978-1-68140-623-7 Publication Date: March 1, 2019 The book is designed to be a crowd-pleaser, whether you’re looking for new ideas for an established science night or planning your first one. It’s useful for teachers at all levels as well as homeschoolers and informal education programs. Best of all, the authors, both veteran educators, are dedicated to making sure your science night showcases quality science content and practices. Based on their years of personal experience, they write, “A successful Family Science Night is a perfect coming together of informal science learning, student leadership, community support, and schoolwide excitement.” Get this book and get ready to take a bow!
|
The Beaks of Birds
By: Richard Konicek-Moran and Kathleen Konicek-Moran
ISBN: 978-1-68140-352-6 Publication Date: November 1, 2018 Come along on a tour of the wonderful world of birds and their beaks. This book is the story of a child and two grown-up friends on a jaunt across their yard, in a park, past a pond, and through the pages of a photo album. Like them, you’ll find you can figure out what birds eat by the shape of their bills—and why some have beaks like straws, pouches, or even daggers. Also like them, you’ll have all kinds of questions about amazing birds—from house finches to hummingbirds to great blue herons—that use their own built-in tools for eating. Rounding out the story are five kid-friendly activities and background information parents and teachers can use.
|
Exemplary Evidence
By: Jessica Fries-Gaither
ISBN: 978-1-68140-361-8 Publication Date: November 1, 2018 If you think of science as a puzzle, you’ll see that data is a key to unlocking it. Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data touches on the world’s many riddles—from how we see to what’s at the bottom of the ocean. It shares how scientists have solved such puzzles by collecting measurements, taking notes, and even making sketches. The book also provides mini-bios of the nine featured scientists plus four steps to using data to tease out your own answers about how the world works.
|
|
The STEM Road Map Curriculum Series is anchored in the Next Generation Science Standards, the Common Core State Standards, and the Framework for 21st Century Learning. In-depth and flexible, Investigating Environmental Changes can be used as a whole unit or in part to meet the needs of districts, schools, and teachers who are charting a course toward an integrated STEM approach.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2017
When the Sun Goes Dark
By Andrew Fraknoi and Dennis Schatz This engaging, illustrated children's book gets young astronomers ready for August 2017, when millions of North Americans will witness a rare solar eclipse. The book tells how two curious children and their grandparents re-create eclipses in their living room using a lamp, a tennis ball, two Hula Hoops, and Ping-Pong balls. Later, in the backyard, the family explores safe ways to view a solar eclipse and pon-ders phenomena ranging from sunspots to phases of the Moon. Includes hands-on techniques for children and adults to learn the science behind eclipses of the Sun and Moon. ISBN: 9781681400112 Publication Date: Spring 2017 World Rights Available |
Problem-Based Learning in the Earth and Space Science Classroom, K–12
By Tom McConnell, Joyce Parker, and Janet Eberhardt Like NSTA’s Problem-Based Learning in the Life Science Classroom, K–12, this second volume in this series is rich with examples, instructions, tips, assessment questions, and model responses to assessments. It engages students with scenarios that represent real-world science in all its messy, thought-provoking glory. The scenarios stimulate students to get deeply involved in analyzing problems, asking questions, posing hypotheses, and constructing solutions. Classroom lessons cover Earth’s landforms and water, the rock cycle and plate tectonics, weather, and astronomy. ISBN: 9781941316191 Publication Date: Spring 2017 World Rights Available |
Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, 3–5
Using Children's Books to Inspire STEM Learning By Emily Morgan and Karen Ansberry For older elementary students, this new Picture-Perfect book includes a variety of books to teach STEM concepts and reading-comprehension strategies. As students learn how to plan and carry out investiga-tions, analyze and interpret data, and construct explanations and design solutions, they will work on in-venting toy cars and reducing plastic pollution. This volume’s engaging books and the 15 hands-on lessons are perfect ways for upper-elementary students to learn about the interdependence of the STEM subjects. ISBN: 9781681403311 Publication Date: May 2017 World Rights Available |
Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, K–2
Using Children's Books to Inspire STEM Learning By Emily Morgan and Karen Ansberry Picture-Perfect books integrate science and language arts through high-quality picture books and lessons that are kid-friendly and engaging and include easy-to-use features such as fiction and nonfiction pairs; background reading, materials lists, student pages, and assessments for each lesson; and connections to science, language arts, and mathematics standards. The 15 lessons in this new Picture-Perfect book put STEM into a meaningful, memorable context for the youngest scientists. ISBN: 9781681403281 Publication Date: March 2017 World Rights Available |
Dive In!
Immersion in Science Practices for High School Students
By Karen J. Graham, Lara M. Gengarelly, Barbara A. Hopkins, and Melissa A. Lombard
What is it really like to plunge into the world of science learning and teaching? Find out in this book that grew out of a teacher-scientist project at the University of New Hampshire that promoted active learning and using science practices in the classroom. Dive In! provides detailed examples of how veteran teach-ers and their students can implement A Framework for K–12 Science Education and the NGSS.
ISBN: 9781941316290
Publication Date: April 2017
World Rights Available
Immersion in Science Practices for High School Students
By Karen J. Graham, Lara M. Gengarelly, Barbara A. Hopkins, and Melissa A. Lombard
What is it really like to plunge into the world of science learning and teaching? Find out in this book that grew out of a teacher-scientist project at the University of New Hampshire that promoted active learning and using science practices in the classroom. Dive In! provides detailed examples of how veteran teach-ers and their students can implement A Framework for K–12 Science Education and the NGSS.
ISBN: 9781941316290
Publication Date: April 2017
World Rights Available
2016
Learning to Read the Earth and Sky
Explorations Supporting the NGSS, Grades 6–12 By Russ Colson and Mary Colson Refresh Earth science instruction with this resource that brings authentic science—and enthusiasm—into the classroom. It offers inspiration for reaching beyond prepared curricula, engaging in discovery along with students, and translating the core ideas of NGSS into specific examples students can touch, see, and ex-perience. Includes Earth science labs and activities for teachers and students to experience as co-investigators, stories of real scientific discovery, and teacher-scholar mentoring ideas. ISBN: 9781941316238 Publication Date: December 2016 World Rights Available |
Helping Students Make Sense of the World Using Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices
By Christina V. Schwarz, Cynthia Passmore, and Brian J. Reiser When it’s time for a game change, you need a guide to the new rules. This book gives a play-by-play understanding of the practices strand of A Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Genera-tion Science Standards. Written in clear, nontechnical language, it provides real-world examples to demonstrate what’s different about practice-centered teaching and learning at all grade levels and how to engage students in science and engineering practices help improve science education. ISBN: 9781938946042 Publication Date: December 2016 World Rights Available |
Big Data, Small Devices
Investigating the Natural World Using Real-Time Data By Donna Governor, Michael Bowen, and Eric Brunsell Help students transform their mobile phones and tablets into tools for learning about everything from weather to water quality with this new book designed for Earth and environmental science teachers. Using the many available websites and free apps, students will learn to tap into, organize, and deploy large data sets via their devices to investigate the world around them and detect patterns among phenomena related to the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and seasons. ISBN: 9781681402765 Publication Date: November 2016 World Rights Available |
Notable Notebooks
Scientists and Their Writings By Jessica Fries-Gaither Take a trip through time to discover the value of a special place to jot down ideas, whether you are a famous scientist or a student. Notable Notebooks brings to life the ways in which a diverse group of scien-tists from Galileo to Jane Goodall have used notebooks to sketch their observations, imagine experiments, record data, or just capture their thoughts. Includes steps for students to start their own notebooks. ISBN: 9781681403076 Publication Date: September 2016 World Rights Available |
Argument-Driven Inquiry in Physical Science Laboratory Investigations for Grades 6–8
By Jonathon Grooms et al. Newest in NSTA’s bestselling Argument-Driven Inquiry series, this teaching resource will make middle school labs much more active and engaging. Its 22 investigations teach students to use arguments to construct, support, and evaluate scientific claims of their own and others. The labs cover four core ideas in physical science: matter, motion and forces, energy, and waves. Easy-to-use features include reproducible student pages, teacher notes, checkout questions, and standards alignment matrices. ISBN: 9781938946233 Publication Date: September 2016 World Rights Available |
Bringing STEM to the Elementary Classroom
By Linda Froschauer, Editor This book, curated by the editor of NSTA’s award-winning journal Science and Children, contains 36 class-room-tested lessons grounded in science education research and designed to encourage learning across disciplines, promote real-world problem-solving skills, introduce children to STEM careers, and serve all students equally well. Bringing STEM to the Elementary Classroom provides teachers with new, interesting, and productive strategies to bring STEM alive for students. ISBN: 9781681400303 Publication Date: May 2016 World Rights Available |
Creative Writing in Science
Activities That Inspire
By Katie Coppens
This classroom resource book features 3–12 activities that integrate writing with content in life science, Earth and space sciences, and engineering and physical sciences. Each of the 15 science activities comes with strategies for teaching a creative writing style, whether prose or poetry. The assignments work as in-class activities, homework, or final assessments for a unit. Includes handouts, graphic organizers, writing models, and scoring rubrics.
ISBN: 9781941316351
Publication Date: March 2016
World Rights Available
Activities That Inspire
By Katie Coppens
This classroom resource book features 3–12 activities that integrate writing with content in life science, Earth and space sciences, and engineering and physical sciences. Each of the 15 science activities comes with strategies for teaching a creative writing style, whether prose or poetry. The assignments work as in-class activities, homework, or final assessments for a unit. Includes handouts, graphic organizers, writing models, and scoring rubrics.
ISBN: 9781941316351
Publication Date: March 2016
World Rights Available
Eureka! Science Activities & Stories Grades 3-5
by Donna Farland-Smith & Julie Thomas Coming Soon! 
Perspectives on Science Education: A Leadership Seminar
by Rodger Bybee & Stephen Pruitt Coming Soon! |
The Power of Investigating: Guiding Authentic Assessments
by Lisa M Nyberg & Julie V. McGough Coming Soon! |
2015
NGSS For All Students
|
Reimagining the Science Department
|
The BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Creating Teachable Moments
|
Spanish Edition
|
Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science
|
The Power of Questioning? Guiding Student Investigations
|
Back List titles
It's Debatable! Using Socioscientific Issues to Develop Scientific Literacy K-12 by Dana L. Zeidler and Sami Kahn
Should local governments lower speed limits to reduce traffic fatalities? Should pharmaceutical companies be allowed to advertise prescription drugs directly to consumers? These are the kinds of real-world questions K–12 students can explore using the Socioscientific Issues Framework at the core of It’s Debatable! Both practical and content-rich, this book doesn’t shy away from controversy. Instead, it encourages scientific literacy by giving students practice in research, analysis, and argumentation and by confronting just how messy the questions raised by science (and pseudoscience) can be.
|
Using Physical Science Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 6–8 & Using Physics Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 9–12: Phenomenon-Based Learning by Mathew Bobrowsky, MIkko Korhonen, and Jukka Kohtamaki
Authored by a breadth of science education experts, Science for the Next Generation is a new, multifaceted book, which supports elementary educator’s preparation for both a new generation of science students and the new Framework for K–12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The volume’s chapters combine the theoretical and practical, while also offering detailed explanations around the standards. Teachers will discover the newest related research on how children learn; classroom practices that support learning, as well as the value in connecting literacy to science lessons. It offers educators the essential background, content, and practices needed.
|
Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 by Victor Sampson, Patrick Enderle, Leeanne Gleim, Jonathon Grooms, Melanie Hester, Sherry Southerland, and Kristin Wilson
Have you been searching for a new source of inquiry-based biology labs that help your high school students learn both important content and scientific practices? Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology is your one-stop source for both information and instructional materials. The book starts by introducing you to the stages of argument-driven inquiry. These stages range from question identification, data analysis, and argument development to double-blind peer review and report revision. Then, it provides 27 field-tested labs that cover molecules and organisms, ecosystems, heredity, and biological evolution. Supporting both the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core State Standards, the investigations are designed to be much more authentic than traditional laboratory activities—and they enable your students to practice how to read, write, speak, and use math in the context of science.
|
Science Stories You Can Count On: 51 Case Studies With Quantitative Reasoning in Biology by Clyde Freeman Herreid, Nancy A. Schiller, and Ky F. Herreid
How do we know whether energy drinks really boost energy, cell phones cause cancer, or Super Bugs are going to render antibiotics ineffective? Science Stories You Can Count On weaves real-life questions like these into 51 case studies. The case studies are designed to engage students in 12 areas of general biology, from the scientific method to microbiology to plant forms and functions. But that’s not all: The cases also promote data literacy by making graphical analysis and statistical and logical reasoning important parts of each story.
|
Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 2: 39 New Electricity and Magnetism Formative Assessment Probes by Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
If Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Vol. 1 left you wanting more, you’re in luck! Volume 2 offers 39 new formative assessment probes focusing on electric charge, electric current, and magnets and electromagnetism. Just like the previous books in the Uncovering series (see pp. 40–41), this volume provides engaging questions that can reveal what students already know—or think they know—about a core science concept. Armed with that insight, you can use the teacher materials to present the content in grade-appropriate ways to help students develop deeper conceptual understanding.
|
What Are They Thinking? Promoting Elementary Learning Through Formative Assessment by Page Keeley
Not a mind reader? Then use this book to draw out what young students know—or think they know—about science. What Are They Thinking? is a compendium of 30 “Formative Assessment Probes” columns from NSTA’s elementary journal Science and Children. Each column provides a sample probe—a set of interesting questions that root out commonly held (and often mistaken) ideas. Your students’ answers will help you take a step back and figure out how to guide them from where they are conceptually to where they need to be.
|
