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The digital textbooks have landed!
The launch of a formal, deliberate, across the board attempt to produce digital textbooks has arrived. Not just digital version of paper texts. Not just .pdf pages mimicking textbooks. Not just webpages trying to walk like a textbook. No, this is a s...
By Martin Horejsi
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Chapters and Associated Groups: Know your corporate status!
I want to remind chapter and associated group leaders about the importance of a corporate status. This may be a no-brainer to some, but many organization leaders confuse this with the tax-exempt status (i.e., 501(c)3, 501(c)6, etc.) There is real...
By Teshia Birts, CAE
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This month’s Leaders Letter provides several resources that list the top science stories of 2011—ranging from monthly highlights to high tech inventions. What was your favorite topic? What story caught your attention and made you go hmmmm...
By Christine Royce
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NSTA conference—your first one?
Are you attending the NSTA conference in Indianapolis this spring? At this point, you should be registering, making arrangements for ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Anticipating conference joy, 2012
I am so looking forward to the NSTA national conference in Indianapolis in March 2012! It’s not that I’m tired of my everyday life and teaching work—it’s that I’m eager to be back from the conference with fresh ideas and new connections to ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Our school is facing a budget crunch. Each department was asked for suggestions for cost-saving measures. Do you have any suggestions the science department can add to the list? — Brenda, New York...
By Mary Bigelow
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Google's Online Science Fair winners
One year ago, this blog highlighted the unique opportunity of the Google’s Global Online Science Fair. Well, the fair was a success and the winners have been announced. According to a Google website, Over 10,000 students from 91 countries submitt...
By Martin Horejsi
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When understanding science concepts becomes especially important
There is nothing like a family illness for making the point that it is important for the average person to have a basic understanding of science concepts. Several recent hospitalizations among family and friends have made me aware of how much there i...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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During class, students seem to understand the concepts. However, they don’t do well on the tests. I offer extra help before and after school and at lunch, but few students take advantage of it. I’m a first-year biology teacher, so I’d a...
By Mary Bigelow
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To our Chapter and Associated Group Leaders: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
So, another year, another set of goals (or resolutions) made. That goes for us at NSTA as well. Over the past few months, we’ve discussed lots of new ideas and projects to support our members and other constituents....
By Teshia Birts, CAE
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Moon and the Earth and the Sun, and more
Happy New Year! This year I look forward to more conversation in the early childhood community about science education....
By Peggy Ashbrook