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Archive: Navigating NSTA 2025 Fall Conference: A Guide for First-Time Attendees, October 23, 2025

This seminar is a great opportunity for first-time attendees to connect with fellow newcomers, NSTA leaders, and staff. Learn how to maximize your experience with tips on pre-conference preparation, effective networking, 'can't miss' sessions and eve...

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Archive: Reviewing Proposals for NSTA Conference in Anaheim, September 23, 2025

Are you interested in helping NSTA reviewing proposals for the National Conference in Anaheim? Join us on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET, to learn the process that NSTA follows to review conference proposals.  During th...

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Archive: Meaningful STEM: Student-Centered Strategies for Engagement, October 28, 2025

Meaningful STEM learning is built around student curiosity and questions about the real world. This session focuses on practical strategies that ensure students are the drivers of their learning. Join us to explore ways to maximize student engagement...

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Archive: Meaningful STEM: Expanding Access Through Engagement, September 30, 2025

How can educators create authentic STEM experiences for all students? This session explores strategies to expand student access to and participation in STEM by building strong community partnerships and connecting learning to real-world careers....

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Archive: Science Update: Hubble Observations of Interstellar Objects, August 21, 2025

A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the third interstellar object, known as 3I/ATLAS and resembling a comet, traveling at 130,000 miles per hour within our solar system using the crisp vision of Hubble. This breathtaking spri...

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Archive: Next Generation Science Standards: Critical Components for Implementation at Scale, October 27, 2025

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) provide the field of science education with the vision that all students in K-12 engage in science and engineering as scientists and engineers do in their professional work. Therefore, fairness, opportunit...

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Archive: Science Update: Bringing Quantum Science to the K-12 Classroom, November 6, 2025

Over the past 100 years quantum mechanics has become central to scientists’ understanding of the physical world: from governing the rules of chemical bonds, to underlying the workings of electronics and computers, to deepening the answers to qu...

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Archive: Unlocking Success: A Step-by-Step Guide to NSTA Proposal Submissions, August 19, 2025

Ready to share your best ideas with the science education community? Whether you are considering a session, poster, or workshop, we will break down the submission journey and help you craft a proposal that stands out. In this interactive sessio...

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Enhancing Instruction with the NSTA Sensemaking Tool

Join us for a dynamic four-part webinar series, scheduled on March 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2026, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET, where educators will explore how to use the NSTA Sensemaking Tool to give actionable feedback on lessons, and support instructiona...

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Instructional Routines to Support Sensemaking, March 11, 2026

Helping students make sense of complex scientific ideas requires more than just content delivery—it requires purposeful, consistent opportunities for thinking, talking, and connecting ideas. Instructional routines are structured, repeatable str...

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Archive: Elementary Classrooms: Demystifying the Practice of Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking, February 10, 2026

Many educators didn’t experience Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking during their own K–12 education, which makes implementing it in today’s classrooms both challenging and exciting....

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