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Improving Your Students' Graphing and Graph Interpretation Practices...
By Mary Bigelow
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Ellis Island...Science and Immigration Policy...
By Mary Bigelow
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Creating tomorrow's STEM workforce
Katherine Johnson helped pave the way for women and African Americans in technical fields...
By Debra Shapiro
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Full disclosure–NSTA got me hooked on the CSI programs. Ordinarily I would have ignored them, but when I heard that these shows excite students about science, I had to see at least one episode. Eventually I was watching all of them regularly. (...
By Debra Shapiro
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The NSTA Store has a corner where we can meet the authors of current and popular books. Steve Rich was here today to sign copies of his latest book Outdoor Science: A Practical Guide....
By Mary Bigelow
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I headed over to the exhibit hall just before it opened. I was surprised to see so many eager educators waiting for the doors to open, even on the third day! Since they had still had a few minutes before the doors opened, I was able to talk to a few...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Rest? Not much, even on the weekend
Some NSTA attendees take a few minutes to rest their feet....
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Hughes High School, a STEM-focused school in Cincinnati, has an intersession which students devote to their projects. As luck would have it this year, the intersession is the same week as the NSTA conference in Philadelphia. Kathy Wright, a program f...
By Mary Bigelow
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ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education) sponsored a series of seven sessions (spread out over two days) presented by two of the most dynamic educators I’ve ever met: Ben Smith and Jared Mader of the Red Lion School District...
By Mary Bigelow
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Diana Hunn and Susan Clay Due to technical difficulties, I arrived late to Diana Hunn’s and Susan Clay’s session on Using Humor to Enhance Scientific Literacy. Fortunately, they are good humored about late arrivals....
By Debra Shapiro
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Science talk in Philadelphia at the NSTA national conference
Science talk between students (not teacher-to-student)—is that possible?...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I talked to a few more teachers this afternoon. There are folks from all across the country here this week, but I somehow managed to talk to two people from the West Coast in a row. They weren’t together, so just random chance. Maybe once the t...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Students teaching teachers and rethinking education at the college level
Linda Colon...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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I was in an interesting session yesterday and have overheard bits and pieces of a lot of different conference attendees talking about presentations they’ve liked. I’m wondering: What presenters would you like to hear more from? ...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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I talked to a few teachers this morning between sessions. Here’s what they’re saying about attending the conference: Daniel Welker...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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People were doing double-takes in the exhibit hall as Ben Franklin himself was strolling around. I wonder what he thought of all the displays and events—just a few blocks from Independence Hall....
By Mary Bigelow
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This is my favorite conference so far, and that’s saying a lot since I’ve worked at NSTA for 12 years! Even the weather is cooperating—it couldn’t be a more beautiful time to be in Philly. Yesterday I walked around downtown, a...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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NSTA conferences offer so much more than what you see on the program. Between sessions, I stopped to watch and listen to this young man, who was performing outside of the Philadelphia Convention Center this afternoon....
By Debra Shapiro
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I didn’t bring my son, but after walking around the Exhibit Hall, I regretted it. Who knew that Curious George would be here? When I saw him, I started thinking, and when I saw the penguins and petted the wallaby, I started making phone calls. ...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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This is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a Madagascar hissing beetle. I enjoy going to NSTA conferences because I get to see all sorts of denizens of the animal world that I would never get a chance to view ordinarily....
By Debra Shapiro
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I was talking to a first time attendee on the trolley from the hotel to the convention center this morning. Cecelia Dygdon told me the web site was overwhelming, she found a lot of sessions she wanted to attend, but didn’t immediately realize they ...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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The great thing about traveling to an NSTA conference is that almost immediately you find yourself among friends. When I arrived at the train station, I wasn’t sure if I would know anyone waiting in line. That can be a little unnerving. However...
By Debra Shapiro
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Things are quiet for now at the registration area in Philadelphia (noon on Wednesday—attendee registration opens at 5:00). ...
By NSTA Web Director
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Can't wait for the exhibits!
Walking through the Exhibit Hall, watching it get set up, is exciting. Pretty soon the rafts of building materials, strings of lights, and yards of material will be booths displaying all sorts of incredible science-teaching resources....
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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It’s time to head for the train station and get on my way to the 2010 National Conference on Science Education in Philadelphia. I’ve created a schedule for myself using the online Personal Scheduler (with a couple promising sessions/wor...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Catty-corner from the Mariott Hotel in Philadelphia is a national musical treasure: the Wanamaker organ (yes, the store is a Macy’s now). This is the largest operational pipe organ in the world. At the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ website, yo...
By Mary Bigelow
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What’s a good Irish Science Teacher to do in Philly on St. Patrick’s Day? Judging by the amount of green I’m seeing around town today, there’s plenty! Start your day off with a smile by taking a virtual field trip to Dublin’...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Three Creative, Committed, and Caring NSTA Teacher Awardees
Sometimes during the publishing process, we find we must trim some of our Reports stories to fit the alloted space in print. This was the case for “NSTA Awardees: Creative, Committed, and Caring” from our March 2010 issue. The good...
By Debra Shapiro
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Science learning in six domains
In the March issue of NSTA Reports, Dr. Robert Yager shares his perspective on the six domains for teaching and assessing science learning in the Educated Opinions column. “A View of the Importance of Six Domains for Teaching and Assessing Sc...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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STEM: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
I wonder how teachers include the “E” in this acronym when designing or selecting class activities. And yet, the play that children do can be the foundation for future interest in engineering....
By Mary Bigelow
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Gardening begins, inch by inch
A sprouting bean plant constructed on a felt board....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Tweets, treats, and the tricks of Web 2.0
Flickr photo from www.flickr.com/photos/rattler97...
By Debra Shapiro
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Recent activity on NSTA's various online outposts
Tweet-up in Philadelphia! Join your fellow Listserv users, Facebookers, Tweeters, and LinkedIn’ers, and online Community users on Wednesday evening at the Brew Pub adjacent to Reading Terminal, 1150 Filbert St., for a (at your own expense) face...
By Howard Wahlberg
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My next-door neighbor is a lovely young woman, currently at the top of her junior class and gathering information on colleges. She’s interested in studying chemistry/chemical engineering (hooray!). I was reflecting on the opportunities she has ...
By Mary Bigelow