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Natural history, nature science, and science teaching
Our science department meetings were interesting. My colleague and I taught life and environmental science, and our counterparts in the high school sc...
By Mary Bigelow
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I’ve been attending NSTA conferences off and on since the early 1980s. But this year, since I’ve retooled (rather than retired!), I don’...
By Mary Bigelow
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I’ll give Tyson credit – he spelled my last name correctly (no mean feat) and South Jersey includes the shore, so close enough. I joined the NSTA...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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The articles in this issue focus on one of the fundamental processes of science: observation. How big? What happened? What changed? How does it feel? ...
By Mary Bigelow
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In much of the country, February is not the month in which we think of environmental activities, at least the outdoor kind. But this month’s Sci...
By Mary Bigelow
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As I was reading my February issues of the NSTA publications, it occurred to me how there is a common thread among them. The lead article in The Scien...
By Mary Bigelow
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As I catch up on readings and resources from other blogs, listservs, and journals, I found several things I’d like to share. I’m calling t...
By Mary Bigelow
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I totally agree with the editor of TST this month, concerning the status of the earth sciences in many of our high schools. Many years ago when I was ...
By Mary Bigelow
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“Are you teaching today or are the students just doing a lab or taking a test?” I used to dread this question from a former principal when...
By Mary Bigelow
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Properties of objects and materials
Inquiry is not as dependent on equipment and technology as it is on the willingness of the teacher to model the process and to move from being a sage ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Talk about an interesting day in the age of electronic information! This afternoon in a listserv I belong to, I read about a report by the National Ac...
By Mary Bigelow
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Mathematics and science seem like natural partners when designing interdisciplinary lessons or units. This issue of Science Scope has some suggestions...
By Mary Bigelow
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This month’s Science Teacher is a collection of ideas from low-tech card sorts (a wonderful way to get students thinking) to high-tech investiga...
By Mary Bigelow
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It will soon be the time when many schools go into Science Fair mode, with reactions from students (and perhaps some teachers) that range from cheers ...
By Mary Bigelow
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One of my favorite benefits of being an NSTA member is being able to view all of the journals electronically, even though I must confess that I do lik...
By Mary Bigelow