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An Enchanted Evening With Synchronous Fireflies
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The flickering of fireflies has always been one of my favorite things about summer. This regular summer phenomenon always seemed extraordinary to me, so when I started the Next Time You See book series, fireflies were…
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How Can I Create a Safe Science Classroom?
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As a physics and chemistry teacher for over 30 years, Adah Stock learned firsthand the importance of proper safety precautions in the science lab. Stock’s emphasis on safe practices paid off; she only had one small…
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Think of it as a linear particle accelerator, but instead of atoms, golf balls are propelled at speeds up to 200 miles per hour through a corridor that is 70 feet long and banked with infrared sensors. That’s the tool…
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Reflection on Receiving the Robert H. Carleton Award
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To be recognized as a recipient of the Robert H. Carleton Award from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) was truly the capstone of my professional life. To be noticed at all for one’s passion is always…
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Get Your Hands on NSTA Reports
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Just as hands-on experiments are essential to science literacy, you can increase your professional development with hands-on reading of NSTA’s monthly newspaper, NSTA Reports. Each print issue features pages and…
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What About Lecturing? Recent Study States Not As Effective
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“To lecture or not to lecture” – that seems to be the question that has received much attention in recent years. It is similar to topics such as the positive/negative effects of drinking red wine, eating chocolate or…
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How Can I Keep Up with Changes to Standards?
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When NSTA member Tina Harris found out that her state’s science standards were going to change the following year, she knew she needed help. As part of the changes, her state required that teachers cover weather…
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But Why Does the Balloon Stick to the Wall After I Rub It on My Hair?
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What types of materials can be electrically charged? How does current flow in a circuit? Will a magnet pick up any kind of metal? In answering these types of questions, children will reveal their own preconceptions…
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Using rain to manipulate art media, and modeling rain
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A day where the rain had lasted so long that the playground became soupy led to an investigation of the properties of art media—tempera paint and oil pastels. As a science investigation we (most of us) followed my…
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I love science fair but is it still practical? Rosa, TX Science fair provides our students the opportunity to apply scientific processes to problems or questions that interest them. Students performing science is…
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Literacy and science: Writing and communicating
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This is a continuation of a question about Literacy and science: Reading and comprehension. The question dealt with incorporating literacy practices and activities into science instruction and the role of the science…
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eCYBERMISSION 2014: Standout STEM Students Succeed
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The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) congratulates the national winners of the 12th annual eCYBERMISSION competition, which NSTA administered for the U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program. The online…
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Children play year-round but some media for play is more easily used in summer. Some recent play that I’ve observed: Observing the motion of wood chip mulch as it is shaken back and forth on a spring rider.…
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Science of Golf: potential and kinetic energy
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For the first time ever, the women are playing their U.S. Open on the same course as the men. Watch 2010 U.S. Women’s Open champ Paula Creamer in Science of Golf: Potential and Kinetic Energy to see the energy…
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Five Ways to Read Science & Children in 15 Minutes
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Science and Children editor Linda Froschauer recently wrote about how elementary school teachers must “intertwine science disciplines and provide many types of disciplinary core ideas within a single topic of study…
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