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NSTA Membership: It Opens the Door to Opportunity
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Membership in NSTA comes with a wealth of benefits. Although the most obvious benefit may be the regular appearance of Science Scope in your mailbox and NSTA Reports in your Inbox, membership encompasses far more…
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Minneapolis, the Place to Be for Science Education This Fall
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Join NSTA in Minneapolis this October 27–29, 2016, for our first area conference on science education. Our outstanding program will have something for science teachers of all subject areas and experiences. With…
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The last days of the school year
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I’m looking for suggestions for what to do during the last week of school, after final exams are over. I teach high school chemistry. —T., Maryland It’s hard to justify students (and parents) why students should…
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Using museums, the community and playfulness to bring STEM concepts to life
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Please welcome guest blogger, Brooke Shoemaker, who brings her museum education expertise to The Early Years blog. Brooke was a pre-k classroom educator at the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center (SEEC) in…
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Right to the Source: When Schools Fed the War Effort
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Exploring Science and History With the Library of Congress After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, citizens could support the war effort by buying war bonds, conserving food on “Meatless Mondays” and…
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The Power of Questioning: Guiding Student Investigations
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As authors of the popular NSTA Press book The Power of Questioning: Guiding Student Investigations, we get a lot of questions from readers. One of the top questions we get is, “How do we hold the learners…
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#OrganelleWars: A Model for Using Social Media in the Science Classroom
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Given the current political fervor over the candidacies of the people attempting to become our next president, now seemed like a good time to revisit one of the most successful projects I have had the good fortune of…
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Learning Early About STEM Careers Through CTE
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Students at Camp Ernst Middle School in Burlington, Kentucky, participate in technology leadership camps. Next year, they can take a CTE course in Digital Literacy for high school credit. Photo credit: Kristen Franks…
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Looking for free resources and finding many worthy webinars and articles
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It is always a thrill to meet the authors who have written the articles in Science and Children that I’ve found so helpful, and useful enough to share. At the Elementary Extravaganza event at the 2016 NSTA national…
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I’m looking for suggestions on how to have class discussions that are meaningful and help students with our learning goals, especially discussing current events or the results of our investigations. Sometimes it goes…
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The best education resources of 2016 just announced
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This week, the Association of American Publishers PreK–12 Learning Group announced the year’s top learning resources, its 50th year of providing this service to the education community. The 2016 REVERE Awards Finalists…
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Teacher Appreciation Week, ESSA, and More
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There has been a good deal of activity at the Department of Education with the ESSA and on Capitol Hill recently. But first, a shameless plug—mark your calendars now to join NSELA (National Science Education…
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Ideas and information from NSTA's April/May K-12 journals
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This month, all three K-12 journals include the article Addressing Student Diversity and Equity. Another must-read article for all science teachers! Science and Children- Methods and Strategies Think about how the “…
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We are excited about attending an NSTA conference next year (it would be our first conference). The school has professional development funds to cover some of the expenses, but we have to write a proposal describing…
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Reflecting on the NSTA National Conference Middle School Share-a-thon
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OK, I admit it. I’m crazy. Standing in the registration area at 6:45 IN THE MORNING (!) at the NSTA National Conference on Science Education in Nashville, I was handing out postcards (OK, it was more like…
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