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Destination Science

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Destination Science

There’s a cartoon making its way around the internet – the standard outlets – Facebook, Pinterest etc. that highlights what “normal people see on vacation” and how “scientists view their vacation.”  It has scientific subtitles for all ...

By Christine Royce

Gardening in schools

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Gardening in schools

I want to encourage elementary students to spend time outside. We don’t have a lot of funds for field trips, and I think it would be better to have an ongoing project. I also want to involve teachers and students of all grade levels and subject...

By Mary Bigelow

NGSS for All Students

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NGSS for All Students

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By Guest Blogger

Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science

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Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science

Author Richard Konicek-Moran spent years studying and researching children’s alternative conceptions in science and author Page Keeley acquired her passion for improving conceptual understanding using formative ass...

By Carole Hayward

Webinars for K-5 on teaching the NGSS: making sense of phenomena using evidence

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Webinars for K-5 on teaching the NGSS: making sense of phenomena using evidence

The National Science Teachers Association’s Web Seminars are free, 90-minute, live professional development experiences....

By Peggy Ashbrook

What time of day is best for science?

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What time of day is best for science?

When scheduling science at the elementary level, which is better for students: having science class in the morning or the afternoon? We have always had reading and math in the morning with science and social studies in the afternoon. But now my colle...

By Mary Bigelow

NSTA's K-12 April/May Science Education Journals Online

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NSTA's K-12 April/May Science Education Journals Online

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By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director

Building with Blocks: Exploring stability and change in systems

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Building with Blocks: Exploring stability and change in systems

In my neighborhood, flowing rainwater from rooftops and yards is making a small gully in the hillside before it runs into the street and goes into the storm sewer. The hillside used to be just a grassy slope. As the original bare patch deepened, root...

By Peggy Ashbrook

Reviewing during a unit

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Reviewing during a unit

Do you have any suggestions on how to help students review and apply what they learn during a unit? I’ve tried creating games and contests, but the students don’t seem to get much out of them.   —C., Minnesota Many teachers have special revie...

By Mary Bigelow

einstein™Tablet

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einstein™Tablet

Designed to provide an interactive laboratory experience to science students across a wide range of ability levels, the einstein Tablet+ is a mobile device produced by Fourier Education designed to provide an interactive laboratory experience to scie...

By Edwin P. Christmann

Create Teachable Moments for Your Students

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Create Teachable Moments for Your Students

Like classroom teachers at all levels and disciplines, you have probably experienced teachable moments....

By Carole Hayward

Ideas from visiting another classroom

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Ideas from visiting another classroom

Visiting other schools always makes me think about classroom organization, I get new ideas about how to document children’s learning, and gets me thinking about changes I want to implement in my teaching. Changes in weather often lead to changes in...

By Peggy Ashbrook

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