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NGSS@NSTA Hub: Your One-Stop Source for Next Generation Science Standards Information
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By Carole Hayward
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Ideas for must-have strategies
I’m mentoring two new science teachers this year, and I want to focus on must-have strategies and effective practices for science. I’m sure they will have their own needs, but, based on your experience, what would be important to include ...
By Mary Bigelow
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One of the perks of being an NSTA member is having access to all of the journals online. Regardless of the grade level you teach, the journals have ideas that can be used, adapted, or extended for different levels of student interest and experience. ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Breaking Down Walls at the 2014 National Congress on Science Education
If you were with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) in Washington, D.C. last week, you would have been part of the most exciting and productive Congress of the year!...
By Juliana Texley
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Science of Golf: course set up
I have a love-hate relationship with golf. Growing up on a midwestern farm, “green” was spring and summer. Today, “green” has very different meanings. Do I want to land my approach shot onto a perfect one? Sure I do (not that it happens all t...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) offers a growing collection of resources around the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)....
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Professional Development Options
I was recently appointed K-12 science department chairperson. Our professional development budget is slim, but I’d like to do something other than the generic “sit-and-git” presentations we’ve had in the past. I’ve heard about u...
By Mary Bigelow
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This golfer is waiting for the green to clear....
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Are Your Lab Investigations Argument Driven?
The 27 lab investigations in the new NSTA Press book Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 follow the argument-driven inquiry (ADI) instruction model, which consists...
By Carole Hayward
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Science of Golf: Newton’s Third
Male, female, young, old … physical workouts can be as important to low scores as club and ball design—just ask Rickie Fowler, Belen Mozo, 78-year-old Gary Player, or my college-golfer (and budding engineer) daughter who works out with an ex-NFL ...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Science of Golf: collisions and compressions
Self-taught, long-ball hitter Bubba Watson gets a greater payoff from the collision between the driver and the ball than most anyone on tour. Find out what happens during those 500 microseconds in Science of Golf: Energy in Collisions and Compression...
By Judy Elgin Jensen