Science Writing Resources

My membership to NSTA (National Science Teacher Association) was up for renewal last week. I don’t usually go to the NSTA website, but after renewing I started looking around and found out that I can download copies (PDFs) of past articles for free, and I can search by topic and grade level. I did a search on “Writing” for the topic, several articles came up, which I proceeded to download. I haven’t had time to read them yet, but here is a list of some of the articles, in case anyone else would like to see them. Science and Children is the elementary level NSTA publication, Science Scope is the middle school level one and my search results also included chapters to some NSTA books.

• “Comments on Students’ Writing” by Inez Fugate Liftig, Science Scope, April 2000.


• Handbook of College Science Teaching, Chapter 19:“Mating Darwin with Dickinson: How Writing Creative Poetry in Biology Helps Students Think Critically and Build Personal Connections to the Course Content” by Jerry A. Waldvogel, copyright 2006, NSTA.


• Help, I’m Teaching Middle School Science, Chapter 6: Writing for Science, by C. Jill Swango and Sally Boles Steward, copyright 2003, NSTA.


• “Learning Logs: Writing to Learn, Reading to Access” by Daniel Heuser, Science and Children November/December 2005.


• “Making Thinking Visible, a method to encourage science writing in upper elementary grades” by Roxanne Greitz Miller and Robert C. Calfee, Science and Children, November/December 2004.


• “Science 101, Q: What writing represents what scientists actually do?” Science and Children, November/December 2005.


• “Science the “Write” Way” by Valeria L. Akerson and Terrell A. Young, Science and Children, November/December 2005.


• “Writing to Learn” by Brian Hand, Vaughan Prain, and Keith Vance, Science Scope, October 1999.