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Archive: Nominations – Your Opportunity to Serve, Inform and Lead, September 21, 2023

Question…What do you think the “face of success” looks like? We think it looks like YOU volunteering your time, providing your viewpoints, and applying your experiences. NSTA’s goal is to create a governing body that represents t...

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Archive: NSTA/ASTE: A Solar Eclipse 'Double-Header:' The Perfect Way to Engage Your Preservice Teachers in Capitalizing on These Teachable Moments, April 27, 2023

There will be an annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023 and a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 in the US – an Eclipse Double-Header – with everyone in North America seeing at least a partial eclipse....

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Archive: Science Update: An Eclipse 'Double-Header' is Coming this School Year! August 31, 2023

There will be an annular eclipse this fall and a total eclipse next spring visible in the U.S. Join veteran astronomers and educators Dennis Schatz and Andrew Fraknoi to learn more about what's happening, where the eclipses will be visible, how to vi...

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Beyond “See Figure 1”

Visual elements such as graphs, tables, and diagrams are essential components of scientific writing. Although scientific writing textbooks and guides often contain information on how to design such visuals, little has been written on how to effecti...

By Cary Moskovitz

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Archive: Science Update: Using the Nutrition Facts Label to Meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, October 19, 2023

The FDA recently updated the requirements for nutrition labeling that appear on most packaged food products. This presentation will review the major changes in the Nutrition Facts label, explain why they were necessary, and describe how the label can...

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Archive: Science Update: From Apollo to Artemis: NASA’s Return to the Moon, February 16, 2023

More than 50 years after the Eagle landed at Tranquility Base, NASA has begun its campaign to return astronauts to the surface of our Moon. Named after the mythical twin sister of Apollo, the Artemis program aims to establish a permanent base of oper...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Aerospace Earth & Space Science STEM

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Archive: Science Update: From Talking Trash to Taking Action: The Science of Marine Debris, April 20, 2023

Our oceans are filled with items that do not belong there. Huge amounts of plastics, metals, rubber, textiles, lost fishing gear, abandoned vessels, and many more items enter the marine environment every day. This makes marine debris one of the most ...

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Archive: Science Update: Food Agriculture – The Plant Scientist’s Toolbox, March 9, 2023

Humans have used a variety of ways to modify food crops to suit our needs and tastes for more than 10,000 years. Over this time, the plant scientists’ toolbox has grown: first with “traditional” tools (like cross-breeding, selective breeding, a...

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