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National Conference on Science Education Minneapolis 2025 Professional Learning Institute 1
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National Conference on Science Education Minneapolis 2025 Professional Learning Institute 1 Full-Day WorkshopIgniting Curiosity and Wonder: OpenSciEd Elementary (K-5)Preconference • Wednesday, November 12 • 8:15 AM - 3:15 PMAll participants will receive...Breakfast…
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Call for Papers: Science and Children
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Call for Papers: Science and Children Upcoming ThemesMarch/April 2026: Creating Meaningful Cross-Curricular Experiences (Deadline: June 1, 2025)“I have no time to teach science” remains a resounding concern among early childhood and elementary teachers. A common response? “Try…
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This article focuses on the restructuring of the science requirement for elementary education, early childhood education, and special education majors at Clemson University—a major producer of elementary teachers.
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The California State University campus at San Marcos introduced a new teaching model, CPAE (Content-Process-Application-Evaluation), to improve science teacher education. This article helps to understand how the CPAE…
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It's Elementary: Investigating Student Work
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Teachers wear many hats in the classroom. We are doctors, therapists, IT technicians, politicians, and entertainers, but the one hat we wear that is essential for student learning is the detective’s hat. As detectives,…
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Introducing Crosscutting Concepts in the Elementary Grades
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Four years ago, I moved from teaching middle school science to teaching grades 2–5 STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) labs. One of the biggest challenges I faced was limited lab time in our…
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7 Sessions for Connecting Elementary Science + Literacy
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The upcoming NSTA Minneapolis conference, taking place October 27-29, will have a number of sessions dedicated to celebrating elementary science and literacy connections. Children are born investigators. Science is an…
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From Elementary Ed to Inspiring Speakers
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I started the morning with a visit to the Elementary Extravaganza. So much activity was going on. I overheard one attendee exclaim, “I didn’t know we had so many elementary teachers!” I’m not sure if he…
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Elementary educators' early morning
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Elementary educators turned out in force for this special event just for them! The Elementary Extravaganza opened this morning at 8 am. When I stopped by a little later, the room was packed (I heard an estimate of…