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An Acknowledgment Form Is Safer Than a Contract
The school year is well under way. But before students enter science labs, they must turn in a safety acknowledgment form. After completing introductory safety training, as noted in NSTA’s Duty of Care (NSTA 2014), review and have students and t...
By Kenneth Roy
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Focus on Physics: Skateboard Physics
As with all sports, skateboarding involves a lot of intriguing physics. I’ve marveled at the maneuvers of skilled skateboarder Alex Hewitt (my grandson). When traveling along a horizontal surface, Alex crouches and then springs upward with his skat...
By sstuckey
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Investigating water with Early Childhood educators
“At what age can a child begin science learning?” asked one participant at an early childhood education workshop on investigating the properties of water in a fun, scientific way using observation, documentation and reflecting on that work. The g...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Ideas and inspiration from NSTA’s October K-12 journals
The Four Strands of Science Learning and the Next Generation Science Standards from Science Scope is an informative article for teachers of any grade level....
By Mary Bigelow
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The Go!Temp probe, made and sold by “Vernier Software and Technology,” collects real-time temperate data, making it applicable in a number of different fields, e.g., biology, chemistry, physics, earth science , etc....
By Edwin P. Christmann
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The NSTA (UN)conference: Coming This Fall
Leave the lecture hall behind and join us for NSTA’s first un-conference experience, taking place in Minneapolis this October 27-29, and Portland, November 10-12! What should you expect at this un-conference? ...
By Guest Blogger
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Two New NSTA Kids Books Highlight Importance of Observation
Two new children’s books published by NSTA Kids, a division of NSTA Press, are filled with rich illustrations and highlight the importance of discovery, observation, and investigation....
By Carole Hayward
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Partnering With Utilities for Hands-On STEM
Granada High School’s Interact Club students work with David Lunn of Friends of the Arroyo to measure water turbidity during the Tri-Valley Creeks to Bay Clean-up even...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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I get frustrated when I give directions for an activity and students immediately have questions about what to do. How can I help them become more confident and self-sufficient? —C., Michigan...
By Mary Bigelow
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Editor's Corner: Science and the Arts
“The greatest scientists are always artists as well.” —Albert Einstein Albert Einstein at 25....
By sstuckey