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Career of the Month: Civil Engineer

Athena Watson is a civil engineer specializing in water systems. She works for a municipal water agency in the San Francisco Bay Area, as part of a team helping to ensure that the cities of Livermore, Dublin, and Pleasanton have a reliable supply ...

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Right to the Source: Citizen Scientists in the Appalachian Forest

Tending the Commons features numerous recorded interviews with participants in the Appalachia Forest Action Project, conducted in the early 1990s....

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Focus on Physics: Electric Power in a Parallel Circuit With an Automobile Battery

Bulb-battery teaching demonstration explains voltage, current, and power in parallel circuits with the aid of a common automobile battery....

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Editor's Corner: Crowdsourcing Science

Public participation in scientific research has a deep history....

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Message from the NSTA President: NSTA's 75th

A Beginning, Present, and Future Connected by the Need for Science Education...

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The Microscopic World of Plankton

Build your own plankton nets to gather the organisms that are essential to aquatic ecosystems around the world....

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Staying Fit in Space

Design activity trackers for astronauts on the International Space Station....

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Ocean Pressure

Dive into the relationship between pressure and force....

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Practical Research: Texts as Tools

This column describes strategies for applying best research-based practices....

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From the Editor's Desk: Thank the Ocean

A guest editorial on this month's theme....

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From the President's Desk: NSTA's 75th

A celebration of NSTA's 75th anniversary....

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Commentary: Engage Your Students in Ocean Exploration Science

A guest editorial on this month's theme--Oceans!...

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Disequilibrium: Floating Eggs

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions....

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Scope on the Skies: Monitoring the Hydrosphere

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This issue focuses on space missions that study the Earth's hydrosphere....

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Citizen Science: Global Fishing Watch

This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data....

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Interdisciplinary Ideas: Data Literacy 101

This column shares ways to bring other subjects into the science classroom....

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Teacher to Teacher: Using the Anchoring Phenomenon Routine to Introduce a Science Unit

This column provides practical advice from your peers....

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Science for All: Supplementing the Textbook Effectively to Encourage Student Growth

This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement....

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Editor's Note: "Science is not a noun; it's a verb"

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

Elementary Inquiry Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary

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Message From the President: NSTA's 75th

A celebration of NSTA's 75th anniversary....

News Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation

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Apple in the Dark

By Page Keeley

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The Early Years: Discovering Their Sense of the World

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue aims to engage children in a project-based learning experience....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool STEM Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices

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The Poetry of Science: Solving Problems

Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways....

Elementary General Science Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Literacy

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From Facts to Solutions

Fifth graders turn knowledge about the science behind climate change into real-world solutions and advocate for them to their broader community....

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Problem-Based Paleontology

A STEAM exploration for fourth graders...

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Got Energy?

Fourth graders explore energy independence....

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City Planners at Work

Fourth graders research an ideal location for their garden....

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NGSS Lesson Adaptations

By Kevin Cherbow, Katherine McNeill, Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Megan McKinley, and Benjamin Lowell

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President's Message: NSTA's 75th

A celebration of NSTA's 75th anniversary....

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Point of View: There Is a Difference Between Engagement and Understanding

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This issue focuses on the difference between engagement and understanding....

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A Faculty Development Model for Transforming a Department’s Laboratory Curriculum With Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences

The authors of this article describe how their Department of Biological Sciences redesigned 12 existing laboratory courses using the principal design elements of course-based undergraduate research experiences....

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Communities by Design: An Age-Friendly Multidisciplinary Course Integrating the Physical and Social Sciences

This article describes a multidisciplinary course that uses information from the physical and social sciences to examine age-friendly community problems and solutions....

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Virtual Storm Chase: Bringing the Atmospheric Sciences to Life Through an Interactive Case Study

An in-class case study is presented for use in a liberal arts core extreme weather course, designed to foster science literacy, appreciation, and critical thinking skills in nonscience majors....

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Case Study: The Chef Returns: A Recipe for Writing Great Case Studies

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This issue provides a recipe for writing great case studies....

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Research and Teaching: It’s Not Just for Points: Teacher Justifications and Student Perceptions About Active Learning

This article examines teacher justifications and student perceptions about active learning....

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Research and Teaching: Graduate TA Teaching Behaviors Impact Student Achievement in a Research-Based Undergraduate Science Course

A look at the influence of graduate teaching assistants' teaching behaviors on student achievement in a research-based undergraduate science course....

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Research and Teaching: Growing a Learning Assistant Program: Using Perceptions to Inform Improvement

The authors describe a study used to gather learning assistant and faculty member perceptions to understand if programmatic goals of learning assistant programs are being met....

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Research and Teaching: PowerPoint Use in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom: Perceptions and Impacts on Student Learning

This article focuses on the use of, and perceptions about, PowerPoint in undergraduate introductory biology classes to understand how PowerPoint composition can best promote student learning....