NSTA Kids invites students to step outside, look up, and rediscover the wonder of the night sky ✨

“Next Time You See a Star” blends poetic storytelling with real science for grades K–5. Perfect for read-alouds & NGSS-aligned Earth & Space lessons. 🌌

Learn more: bit.ly/4r8Nduy

#ScienceEd #NGSS

Explore 150+ visual science lessons:
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Exploring the natural world through photography and AI.

#ScienceEd #NGSS #STEM #EdTech #Photography #NaturePhotography

Have you used the Ice Cubes in a Bag probe from the Uncovering Student Ideas probes? Try out the grades 3-8 phenomenon story probe version, The Lunchbox Ice Pack Mystery, at uncoveringstudentideas.org/storyprobes #NSTA #NSTA2026 #NGSS #SciEd #elementary #tsela #ASE #phenomena

Gr 3-8 teachers- do you use the Uncovering Student Ideas probes? Try out new phenomenon-based story probes that combine sci & reading, free to download at www.uncoveringstudentideas.org/storyprobes More samples added soon. Would love your feedback! #NSTA #NGSS #ASE #Elementary #SciEd #phenomena

👋 Hi #EduSky! MS Bio teacher here trying to build my digital PLN. My classes are a huge mix of MLLs, students with disabilities, and advanced kids this year. 🧬

What are your go-to digital tools for differentiation? Need MLL scaffolds and more "data depth" for my high-flyers. TIA!

#SciEd #UDL #NGSS

Winter lesson idea: Hibernation Hotel #NGSS #kindergarten

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A Kidney Problem? | Science Take-Out | Hands-On Learning Kits Does your patient have kidney disease? Analyze simulated urine samples and find out with STO's "A Kidney Problem?" kit.

"I love the Kidney Problem kit. It is perfect for the new standards!!"

- High School Science Teacher, NY

#NGSS #SciEd #STEM #scienceteacher
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Discover our 2026 Service Catalog 🚀✨
Workshops, coaching & self-paced learning for real classrooms + real leaders ⚡🔍
Tools + inquiry-driven PD that sticks 💡

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#PBL #TeacherPD #EdLeadership #STEMEd #Inquiry #NGSS #CCSS #FutureReady #K12 #ActionableAssessment

Want richer student talk? Start with silence.

Give students 30 sec of quiet think time before discussion. It opens space for deeper ideas, stronger reasoning, and more equitable participation.

Sensemaking grows when we make room for it.

#ActivateSensemakingSeries #NGSS

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How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards
Henderson et al
2507-2530 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2441198

#NGSS #culturalcognition #geography #politicalideology #SDG4 #SDG13

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The best lessons start with curiosity.

“What do you notice?” “What do you wonder?”
When students ask, investigate, and explain, science comes alive.

#STEM #ScienceTeaching #InquiryBasedLearning #NGSS #ActivateLearning

Why Insects Belong in Every Classroom — Galactic Polymath Climate change, biodiversity loss, and microbial resistance are systems problems — they demand thinking that sees networks, feedback loops, and hidden interdependencies. Here’s why insects are perfe...

🧪🐛🦋🐜🐝 Awesome guest post from Dr. Aram Mikaelyan! If we want students to be better at systems thinking—to grow their skills of observation & critical thinking—a good way to start is getting curious about what's happening at our feet! 🍎 #NGSS #entomology
www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/why-ins...

TONIGHT! ✨ Join Matt Oney (MSU) at 7 PM ET Tue, Dec 9th for a proven template to integrate NGSS Engineering Practices—way beyond paper folding! Register now: bit.ly/NGSSPaperAir...

#NGSS #STEM #ScienceEducation #AMTA #ModelingInstruction #Engineering #Physics #MSU #professionaldevelopment

Winter is full of STEM moments. Use seasonal changes to explore matter and temperature. Low-prep STEM idea: Melt snow. Measure. Compare predictions. Let students lead the sensemaking.

#ScienceEducation #STEMTeaching #NGSS #ActivateLearning #StudentCenteredLearning

Great science starts with curiosity.

Activate Learning programs help students ask questions, investigate, and make sense of the world through evidence and exploration.

See how our approach empowers real learning: www.activatelearning.com

#STEM #NGSS #ActivateLearning

It's hard to comprehend, but fueling a bike ride with calories only from beef emits more co2 than a drive of the same distance in a pickup truck. My students are using this as a phenomena to explore energy loss between trophic levels. #ngss #scienceteacher #iteachbio

A Complete Primary STEM/STEAM Solution for International Schools
#InternationalSchools #IBPYP #PrimaryYearsProgramme #InquiryBasedLearning #STEMEducation #STEAMEducation #HandsOnLearning #BritishCurriculum #IPC #NGSS #GlobalEducation #STEMCurriculum #PrimaryEducation #EdTech #ISED #junioreinsteins

A Complete Primary STEM/STEAM Solution for International Schools
#InternationalSchools #IBPYP #PrimaryYearsProgramme #InquiryBasedLearning #STEMEducation #STEAMEducation #HandsOnLearning #BritishCurriculum #IPC #NGSS #InternationalSchoolLeaders #STEMTeachers

Why Student Talk Matters in OpenSciEd | OpenSciEd On-Demand Resources YouTube video by OpenSciEd Account

Student talk isn’t noise—it’s learning in motion. 💬
See how #OpenSciEd helps students move from guessing answers to figuring things out together.

🎥 Watch now → www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6qL...

#OpenSciEd #ScienceEducation #NGSS #ActivateLearning #EduSky

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As with all of our @STEMTeachTools, you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others! #NGSSchat #NGSS #SciEd

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Thanks to Nancy Price for being the lead author on this one! 🙏

STEM Teaching Tool #105 Creating Art to Understand and Promote Climate and Environmental Justice In the background is a piece of artwork called “Life is a window of vulnerability” by Nancy Price showing a hand drawn bird and a patterned sunflower collage in orange and black.

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS #STEAM

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published another NEW TOOL. This one shows how to use ART PEDAGOGIES as a powerful platform for students to learn about and take action on #ClimateJustice and #EnvironmentalJustice!

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/105

Cities across the world are sinking. Here’s how they might rebound Affected coastal cities tend to flood more often — a growing threat in this era of continuing sea level rise.

How would you use the #phenomenon of Jakarta sinking to help high school students develop #NGSS DCIs like HS.ESS3.A?

www.snexplores.org/article/citi...

Today my students are thinking about how we balance our cultural wants and needs with the stark reality of our diet choices. They are making a recommendation based on the data, and then revising their answers after the protein sources are revealed #NGSS #Bio #climate

Registration-based Teacher Institutes for BSCS Biology: Understanding for Life - BSCS Science Learning BSCS offers Registration-based Teacher Institutes with the same content as our District-based Teacher Institutes.

🧬 High school bio teachers: Join BSCS Biology starting next week to explore how genes & the environment shape disease!

November 10
November 17 & 19

🔬 Hands-on learning | 🌍 Support multilingual learners | 🤝 Connect with educators

👉 bscs.org/bio-institutes

🍎🧪 #EduSky #BSCSBiology #NGSS #SciEd

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As with all of our @stemteachingtool.bsky.social , you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others! #NGSSchat #NGSS #SciEd

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/assets/lands...

STEM Teaching Tool #104 Watch Your Language! Because Words Help Create Socio-Ecological Worlds Background image includes a range of words of varying sizes and colors including: Rights of Nature, Regenerate, Climate Crisis, Relationally, Just Transition, Degrowth, Indigenous Language Revitalization, Overburden, Kin, and others.

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS

The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.

➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104

Heading to #NABT2025? Stop by Booth 134 to explore free NGSS-aligned lessons & meet the #SCLAmbassadors using film and storytelling to spark curiosity in their classrooms.

👋 See you at @nabtbio.bsky.social soon, educators! #ScienceEducation #NGSS #SCLAmbassador

The 4th dimension of the #NGSS by @paulandersen —> mindset!#WSTA25

Ten people standing in a circle talking and holding packets of paper on an overcast day. They are standing in a lush green field with tall pine trees in the distance and the Flatiron mountains in the background.

Visit our website to register for upcoming sessions and sign up to be notified as new workshops are added. We can't wait to share our toolbox for inspiring student investigation!
#TeacherPD #K12 #NGSS #ScienceEducation

OpenSciEd K-12 | Activate Learning A unified OpenSciEd K-12 science education approach that provides cohesive and high-quality science instruction across all grade levels.

Science starts early — and with the right support, it thrives.
@OpenSciEd Elementary is now available through Activate Learning 🧪

Hands-on, inquiry-based science for K–5.
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#STEM #K5Science #ScienceEducation #OpenSciEd #ActivateLearning #NGSS