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Would you like to inspire students to be better writers while you incorporate new strategies into your teaching to assess their scientific understanding? Katie Coppens’ new NSTA Press book, Creative Writing in Science, provides engaging literary ex...
By Carole Hayward
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Questions and discussions about safety are often seen in the NSTA e-mail listserves and discussion forums. Each month, columns on safety in the science classroom/lab are featured in NSTA’s Science Scope (Scope on Safety) and The Science Teacher (Sa...
By Mary Bigelow
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The last days of the school year
I’m looking for suggestions for what to do during the last week of school, after final exams are over. I teach high school chemistry. —T., Maryland...
By Mary Bigelow
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Using museums, the community and playfulness to bring STEM concepts to life
Please welcome guest blogger, Brooke Shoemaker, who brings her museum education expertise to The Early Years blog. Brooke was a pre-k classroom educator at the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center (SEEC) in Washington, D.C. for four years, before jo...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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#OrganelleWars: A Model for Using Social Media in the Science Classroom
Given the current political fervor over the candidacies of the people attempting to become our next president, now seemed like a good time to revisit one of the most successful projects I have had the good fortune of incorporating into my freshman b...
By Guest Blogger
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Looking for free resources and finding many worthy webinars and articles
It is always a thrill to meet the authors who have written the articles in Science and Children that I’ve found so helpful, and useful enough to share....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I’m looking for suggestions on how to have class discussions that are meaningful and help students with our learning goals, especially discussing current events or the results of our investigations. Sometimes it goes off-topic or students don’t l...
By Mary Bigelow
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The best education resources of 2016 just announced
This week, the Association of American Publishers PreK–12 Learning Group announced the year’s top learning resources, its 50th year of providing this service to the education community....
By Claire Reinburg
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Teacher Appreciation Week, ESSA, and More
There has been a good deal of activity at the Department of Education with the ESSA and on Capitol Hill recently....
By Jodi Peterson
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Ideas and information from NSTA's April/May K-12 journals
This month, all three K-12 journals include the article Addressing Student Diversity and Equity. Another must-read article for all science teachers!...
By Mary Bigelow