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Count on These Science Stories to Engage Your Students
“Our students should be able to at least reason quantitatively: to read and interpret data, graphs, and statistics....
By Carole Hayward
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At the end of the year, my principal mentioned—again—that he wanted Honors Biology to be the “hardest” ninth grade course. I have tried explaining and showing that my Honors students are having different, more thought-provokin...
By Mary Bigelow
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Ken Roy, NSTA Chief Science Safety Compliance Consultant and NSTA Safety Advisory Board Contact, has some comments based on the issue of a substitute leaving a science lab unattended, a situation described in a previous blog entry:...
By Mary Bigelow
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Living near Tampa—the so-called “lightning capital”—and having a college-golfer (and budding engineer) daughter who plays daily, I’m always a bit jittery about localized storms that pop up regularly here during the summer. With a 60% chance...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Lemonade Stands and Summer Activity Resources
Thanks to a teacher who was moving and in a new job, I received boxes of resources from Zoobooks to CESI publications to posters that will interest children and convey concepts today as well as they did 30 years ago—sorting by an attribute and meas...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Science of Golf: Newton 1 & 2
From 0 to 175 mph in a fraction of a second, today’s top golfers can turn a golf ball into one of the fastest projectiles in sports. Science of Golf: Newton’s First and Second Laws of Motion showcases the insights of Suzann Pettersen, a p...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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NSTA’s K-College Science Education Journals: July 2014 Issues Online
Science teachers get a break from lesson planning this month, so it’s a nice time to ponder other questions: What informal science experiences are valuable for elementary students? Can middle school students discuss whether or not we are alone ...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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The set of Laser Blox classroom lasers that I received for review contained:...
By Ken Roberts
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Think of it as a linear particle accelerator, but instead of atoms, golf balls are propelled at speeds up to 200 miles per hour through a corridor that is 70 feet long and banked with infrared sensors. That’s the tool the United States Golf Associa...
By Judy Elgin Jensen