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I hope 20 years from now I can still get excited about being a part of kids’ lives. I am looking for suggestions on how to enjoy teaching for a long time. — J., Missouri...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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Ideas and inspiration from NSTA’s February 2019 K-12 journals
In addition to an overview/review of the 5E model and the STEM disciplines, the Guest Editorial: Using the BSCS 5E Instructional Model to Introduce STEM Disciplines (in Science & Children)has a framework and suggestions for integrating the Model ...
By Mary Bigelow
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10 Reasons High School Teachers Should Join NSTA in St. Louis in April
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By Carole Hayward
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Sensory play for science learning
Children and people of all ages continually explore and learn through their senses. Prior experiences that build understanding of how we use our senses to learn about the world are the foundation for understanding the Next Generation Science Standard...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Ed News: Higher Ed is Pushing STEM Diversity, But is Change Happening Fast Enough?
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By Kate Falk
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Interactive eBook Introduces Young Readers to Beavers, Nature’s Furry Engineer
As a member of her local nature preserve, Katie Dunbar learned so much about the symbiotic relationship between animals and their environment. Take beavers, for example. The absence or presence of this one species has the ability to completely alter ...
By Carole Hayward
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By Gabe Kraljevic
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Plan Your #NSTA19 St. Louis Elementary Science Experience
The biggest science education conference of the year is happening in St. Louis this spring! Elementary teachers who want to be the student for a few days should join us. Here are 11 reasons why....
By Carole Hayward
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The Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer: Listening to Plants (Part 2)
Continuing the story of the Vernier Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer, we will now apply its power it for a more traditional use; to inspect the transmission and absorption of fluid or a material suspended in a fluid. And that fluid can be...
By Martin Horejsi
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Introduction: Pitsco’s Straw Rocket Launcher and its Getting Started Package gives students an introductory rocket activity where they can grasp a variety of subjects including force and motion, thrust, center of gravity, prediction, measureme...
By Edwin P. Christmann
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Reflecting on the Flipped Classroom
Doug Stith uses a form of the flipped classroom he calls Learner-Paced Science with his sixth graders at Londonderry Middle School in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Older students serve as his assistants....
By Debra Shapiro
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I am currently reading a book about childhood trauma in the classroom. How do we as teachers help students who have had a traumatic experience? — A., Iowa ...
By Gabe Kraljevic