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Ideas and inspiration from NSTA’s November K-12 journals
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Educators at all levels will find ideas on helping students with Meeting the Challenges of Communicating Science in his month’s Science and Children. Many of the strategies can be adapted for other levels. Science…
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Positive environments: Early childhood education conferences
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Two early childhood conferences I attended this month, a national conference and a local regional conference, were awash with sessions on science, STEM, and STEAM education. Although science education is my main focus,…
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Health Wise: Too Many Teens Have High Cholesterol
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About one in five U.S. kids and teens ages 6 to 19 has abnormal cholesterol levels, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS 2015). And among the 16-to-19 age group, the number rises to more than…
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The Mixed Blessings of Substitute Teachers
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Like all educators, science teachers rely on substitutes to lead their classrooms when they have to take a day (or more) of leave. In a recent anonymous NSTA Reports poll, 46.8% of participants reported needing a…
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What’s Ahead for Science and STEM Education in the Trump Administration?
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With the election now in the rear view mirror, what’s ahead for education and science education in the new Administration? Short answer, it’s too early to tell. During the campaign, education was largely ignored, so the…
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I’m a first-year biology teacher. How do I decide how many labs I could or should do each week. My colleagues have different ideas about this. —L., South Carolina Sometimes the word lab is used to describe any…
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The Green Room: Losing Sight of Our Stars
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Making Your Teaching More Environmentally Friendly Los Angeles at night The more people there are, the more lights we use. The more lights we use to illuminate our buildings and streets, the brighter the Earth becomes…
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Dear President-Elect Trump: Make STEM a National Imperative
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The presidential election last week surprised everyone, delighted some, and confounded quite a few. Wherever you landed on this spectrum post-election day, as teachers, there is one thing that we can all agree on: that…
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Focus on Physics: The Moon Is Falling!
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Sometimes it seems like everything is in free fall—the stock market, the value of your home, even your outlook for progress in the world. And now you learn this disturbing fact: The Moon is falling! And falling…
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New NSTA Infographic Explores How Today's Students Learn Science
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As a member of the NSTA communications team, I often field questions from a wide variety of audiences—teachers, parents, school and district leaders, business leaders and reporters—about the exciting new developments in…
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Equity in Science Education Begins in Prek
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Welcome to my colleague Lauren Allen who co-authored this blog post. Lauren Allen is currently an administrator focused on STEM Integration in the District of Columbia. While originally from South Carolina, she…
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#NSTA16 Portland: Come and Get Your Swag!
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At NSTA’s Portland conference today at the membership booth, we’re giving away tickets to our LA conference next spring, tweet shirts (while supplies last), and gift cards. And that’s what you can win before you even…
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Science 2.0: When Students Become Digital Citizens
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Modern science learning requires the use of digital tools and a shift in teaching philosophy and pedagogy. The backbone to this shift rests in a skill that we’ve not yet addressed: digital citizenship. Last month, we…
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9 Housekeeping Tips for Science Educators
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A clean lab is a safer lab. These nine housekeeping tips can help science teachers reduce the risk of lab accidents. 1. Location, location, location. Keep all lab equipment and materials in assigned places, such as…
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I need strategies to encourage students to ask their own questions. They answer mine and discuss topics, but when I ask them if they have any questions, I get a lot of blank looks. —A., Washington Asking questions and…
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