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The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is a joint mission between NOAA and NASA that observes Earth and provides critical data for weather forecasting in addition to many other climate change, agriculture, aviation, and disaster monitoring applicati...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Preschool Climate Change Earth & Space Science Environmental Science STEM

Blog Post

Lithium-Based Power Supplies: Safety Issues and Protocols Revisited

By Ken Roy

Technical and Vocational Education Middle School High School Postsecondary Safety

NSTA Press Book

Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions

Click here to view video of Wild Wonderings Let your curiosity run wild! This lively book will inspire you to ask questions like scientists do. Why? Because questions can lead you to amazing discoveries. Like what? Like when theoretical physicist ...

By Jessica Fries-Gaither

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Web Seminar

Archive: Making the Most of Attending an NSTA Conference - Philadelphia 2025, February 27, 2025

In this web seminar participants will learn:...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science

Web Seminar

Archive Science Update: The Wonderful World of Plasma Physics: From the Birth of Stars to Building Cell Phones, February 20, 2025

What is inside our sun and other stars? What fills up the interstellar space? What is lightning? Trying to answer similar questions that come to the curious mind expanded our understanding of what happens to matter at high enough ...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Astronomy Earth & Space Science Physical Science Physics STEM

Journal Article

Journey of the Monarchs: Studying North America’s Nomadic Butterfly

Citizen Science November/December 2024...

By Jill Nugent

Middle School Biology Citizen Science Inquiry Instructional Materials Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Flipped Science Classrooms and the Cornell Note-Taking Method

The flipped classroom is a relatively new innovation in teaching middle school science; however, students often struggle with taking notes that provide metacognitive cues and reinforce understanding. This paper describes the structure of a flipped mi...

By Edward Miller, Angela Kelly

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