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Ideas and inspiration from NSTA’s April 2017 K-12 journals
Two articles of interest to all K-12 teachers:...
By Mary Bigelow
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Planning Three-Dimensional Instruction
Knowing that content material is most engaging when students can relate to it, I always begin my year with a student survey. The questions are designed to help me design lessons to be as student-focused as possible. Knowing my students’ interests a...
By Cindy Workosky
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Digging Deeper: Designing Solutions
This month’s Digging Deeper column for the Next Gen Navigator focuses on the practice of constructing explanations and designing solutions, and specifically the design process that addresses the engineering component of the Next Generation Science ...
By Cindy Workosky
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How I Came to Understand the Three Dimensions
When I first started teaching science, I taught the facts. I taught the nine planets (before Pluto got demoted; sorry, Pluto!), the steps of mitosis, and the workings of plate tectonics, for example. I was proud that I had students who could learn th...
By Cindy Workosky
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I recently took a teaching position, after several years in a different job. I thought I could create a calm, focused atmosphere in my middle school science classes, but some of my students have really annoying and off-task behaviors. How do I deal w...
By Mary Bigelow
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Sylvia Shugrue award winner 2017
2017 Shugrue Award winner Gary Koppelman believes that the development of community relationships and making positive decisions impacting the world begins in the classroom where students learn truths as owners of their community and the environm...
By admin
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The Green Room: How Border Walls Affect Wildlife
Steve Hillebrand, US Fish and Wildlife Service...
By sstuckey
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Week of the Young Child from NAEYC, April 24-28
How will your early childhood program celebrate the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) annual “Week of the Young Child?” Explorations that relate to all five daily themes offer many opportunities...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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STEM-In-Action at its Best: Students Turn Ideas into Reality
Team Crabyotics, 2015 White House Science Fair When it comes to student-focused STEM projects at Taos Middle/High School, ideas seem limitless....
By Korei Martin
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It’s more than just power, it’s teaching potential: Vernier Go Direct Sensors and Micro USB Charging
Power powers. It’s that simple. With all our digital tools, there is at least one common thread across it all and that is we need a flow of electrons to keep the teaching and learning in high gear. But of course batteries die. There are four common...
By Martin Horejsi
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Why should you attend the 6th Annual STEM Forum & Expo?
Why should you attend the 6th Annual STEM Forum & Expo this July? As Chairperson of this event, I think all STEM educators should join us in Kissimmee, Florida from July 12 – 14, 2017, for this premier, international professional development ...
By Korei Martin