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How does cartoonist Richard Thompson do such a splendid job of channeling the thoughts of preschoolers with their questions about the order of the wor...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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As mentioned in NSTA Reports, the new year has been designated Year of Science 2009 The website has many suggestions for YoS events and ideas for bui...
By Mary Bigelow
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Remembering a snow from 1/3 of a lifetime ago
Finding a covering of the season’s first snow on their car, my 3-year-old neighbor helpfully suggested, “Use that tool, that small brush,” to he...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I have always loved science – earth and space sciences especially. Although I’ve had a variety of jobs, since I began home schooling, I’...
By MsMentorAdmin
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I’ve worked with several schools that are framing their curriculum and units of instruction around big ideas, key understandings, generative top...
By Mary Bigelow
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In this Year of Science, this early childhood science teacher is excited to have a President who says, “When it comes to science, elevating scien...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Dinosaurs—a reason to draw and write
Dinosaurs! This high-interest subject is a focus for questions relating to how animals live in many different environmental niches. What evidence do w...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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With the theme of “record keeping,” we might have expected the cover photo to show children writing in a notebook or typing on a computer....
By Mary Bigelow
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Vote and participate in your NSTA
Voting may not be a scientific way of answering a question but it’s the way members of the National Science Teachers Association choose among the de...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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We have a new principal. She doesn’t seem to understand what it’s like to be a science teacher. For example, she wants to schedule non-science...
By MsMentorAdmin
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It used to be that a unit on the polar regions focused on historical explorations or cute stories about polar bears and penguins. But with the Intern...
By Mary Bigelow
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Does it seem to you that the pigeons and seagulls that roost and circle the grocery parking lot are more active in winter? I wonder if they are really...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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My school wants to encourage more parental involvement. Any suggestions? —Madeleine, Lafayette, Louisiana ...
By MsMentorAdmin
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Hello out there! Ann Cutler begins blogging for JCST
Most of the time, the inside of my head feels twenty five years old. In the same way that human height seems to reach an apex at about that time, I be...
By AnnC
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I was in an elementary school where scientists from a nearby university visited the schools periodically to work with the students on a variety of act...
By Mary Bigelow