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Archive: FA22: Lab Safety Considerations for Pre-Service Secondary Science/STEM Teachers, September 26, 2022

This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing secondary level safer science/STEM classroom/laboratory activities with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and, Director of ...

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What makes muscle proteins so different from other proteins in our body? (Playlist Version)

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How do cells know which amino acids go together to make certain proteins? (Playlist Version)

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What exactly are proteins and how are the proteins we make different from those we eat? (Playlist Version)

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How do people build muscles if they are not eating muscle proteins? (Playlist Version)

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Web Seminar

Archive: Science Update: Earthquakes: What’s Shakin? September 15, 2022

Did you feel it? An earthquake is a shaking movement of the Earth’s Crust as stress overcomes friction. This web seminar will provide basic background to help attendees make sense of this natural phenomenon.  Earthquakes, what they are, w...

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Journal Article

Teacher Spotlight: Dr. Eric Michael Bratsolias Brown

High School Careers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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Marine Biologist Tori Cullins

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High School Careers Earth & Space Science

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How Can DNA Help Exonerate Those Wrongly Convicted?

By Hanako Osuga, Jason Foster, Jeanne Ting Chowning

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Teaching Societal Issues in the Science Classroom

By Ann Haley Mackenzie

High School Equity Inclusion Social Justice STEM

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Archive Book Beat Live! Time to Get Ready for the Solar Eclipse Double-Header, August 17, 2022

NSTA’s two award-winning books, Solar Science: Exploring Sunspots, Seasons, Eclipses, and More, and When the Sun Goes Dark provide the perfect resources to help you and your students get ready for the next two solar eclipses coming to the U.S. ...

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NSTA Press Book

The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the Three Dimensions

Since its release in 2014, the NSTA Quick-Reference Guide has become an essential tool for educators across the country to explore the complex structure of three-dimensional standards, including the performance expectations (PEs) that integrate parti...

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Archive: Science Update: Seeing the Unseeable: Imaging Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope, August 25, 2022

Black holes are astrophysical objects with such strong gravity that nothing can escape them, not even light.  In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration produced the first images of two supermassive black holes using a netw...

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Why Can’t We Have Food in the Classroom?

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