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The Green Room: How Climate Change Affects Our Diet
Last year was the warmest year on record. Consequences of a warmer world include melting glaciers, rising sea levels, droughts, flooding, heat waves, and extreme weather. But how does climate change affect our food?...
By sstuckey
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Trump Releases “Skinny Budget” for FY2018
Administration’s Proposal Funds School Choice, Eliminates ESSA Title II and Afterschool Programs President Trump released his “skinny budget” on Thursday, March 16 and as expected, the budget increases defense and security but cuts fundi...
By Jodi Peterson
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The Association of American Publishers PreK–12 Learning Group has just announced 2017’s winners of the prestigious REVERE Awards, education publishing’s highest honors. The 2017 REVERE Awards honor print and electronic resources for PreK–12 t...
By Claire Reinburg
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Ed News: Girls Draw Even With Boys In High School STEM Classes
This week in education news, girls now make up about half the enrollment in high school STEM classes; new proposed California bill would exempt teachers from paying state income taxes; U.S. Education Secretary releases new ESSA guidelines; results o...
By Kate Falk
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Ideas and inspiration from NSTA’s March 2017 K-12 journals
Regardless of what grade level you teach, you the resources in this month’s journals can help make this summer’s eclipse a memorable occasion for your students. Not all students will be back to school on August 21, so this spring is a goo...
By Mary Bigelow
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Focus on Physics: Teaching Physics as the Rules of Nature
We all know that to enjoy a game, you must know the rules of the game. Likewise, to appreciate—and even comprehend—your environment, you must understand the rules of nature. Physics is the study of these rules, which show how everything in natur...
By sstuckey
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Science 2.0: Help Students Become Global Collaborators
One day Jared was teaching about the boiling points of common liquids. The year was 1999, and students had to take his word for it when he said those points would vary slightly in the mountains of Nepal versus coastal Miami. Imagine if those student...
By sstuckey
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Videographing with The PocketLab: Experimental Imagination Unplugged
Imagine a little white box of about 30 cubic centimeters or a third of the size of a deck of cards. And only 23 grams. Now imagine that that little box can effortlessly and wirelessly measure and share data about motion, acceleration, angular velocit...
By Martin Horejsi
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Setting personal and professional priorities
I teach fifth and sixth grade science, and I’m finding it hard to balance teaching, grad school, and family responsibilities. Are there any secrets for this? —E., Washington...
By Mary Bigelow
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Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing March 15 to Focus on STEM Education
Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing March 15 to Focus on STEM Education...
By Jodi Peterson
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Ed News: New Research Supports Women In STEM
This week in education news, new research by the National Women’s Business Council supports women in STEM; David Berliner explains what is really happening in America’s public schools; Louisiana will phase new science standards into classroom by...
By Kate Falk
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Building with blocks, building skills and memories
I still have the wooden unit blocks that were central to many of my childhood play scenarios. The wooden blocks did not stick or snap together so we had to consider balance and how to make a sturdy base to support our structures....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Learning to Read the Earth and Sky
Learning to Read the Earth and Sky: Explorations Supporting the NGSS by Russ Colson and Mary Colson is a new book from NSTA Press that helps teachers of grades 6-12 create lessons and activities aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGS...
By Carole Hayward
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Like science labs, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) labs require safety and security measures, with an emphasis on safety training, personal protective equipment (PPE), standard operating procedures, engineering controls, and supervi...
By Kenneth Roy