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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…

  • Building NGSS Capacity at #NSTA15

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    The 2015 NSTA National Conference on Science Education (held in Chicago, March 12-15) was a great opportunity for educators to build their capacity for understanding and implementing the Next Generation Science…

  • "Extras" for NSTA journals

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    Students are naturally inquisitive and eager to learn. The NSTA K-12 journals for December have many ideas and suggestions for teachers to tap into these inquiring minds. Science & Children: Scale, Proportion, and…

  • 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…

  • Opportunities for learning and networking at NSTA conferences

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    I just returned from the NSTA area conference in Denver. As always and whenever they are, these conferences are wonderful learning opportunities for science teachers. Now that I’ve filled out the session evaluations and…

  • Getting the most from the NSTA conference

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    Are you attending the NSTA conference in San Antonio this spring? At this point, you should be registering, making arrangements for lodging and transportation, and thinking about your lesson plans for the substitute (if…

  • Looking at NSTA's digital journals

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    If you subscribe to any of NSTA’s Journals, you probably received a note about NSTA’s Digital Journals.  As NSTA members, we’ve had access to journal articles as PDF files, but now the journals are also in a…

  • NSTA Professional Development Trip: Part V

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    Bus tour/Tortuguera to La Fortunate NSTA Costa Rica Trip Day 5 July 27, 2012 (posted on behalf of Greg Neff) We first have to load into a water taxi and take the 1 1/2 hour trip up-river to meet up with…

  • High tech highlights: NSTA 2011

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    Here’s a taste of NSTA San Fran. More on this later, but many of the tech tools are open-ended allowing for student/teacher defined uses. Overall, the future looks like a fun place to teach! [youtube]http://www.…

  • Putting the "teacher" in NSTA

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    Congratulations to all of the teacher-presenters at NSTA—to those who were willing to share their ideas and experiences. It’s a quantum leap from the classroom to the national stage, but in the sessions I attended, my…

  • NSTA Press free book chapters

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    Did you know that nearly every NSTA Press book has a free sample chapter you can download from the Science Store?  To make it easier for science teachers to locate these resources, we’ve created a new page listing…

  • Introducing the NSTA Press Books blog

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    So much happens behind the scenes and behind the books at NSTA Press when we develop new resources for science teachers.  I have the enviable job of talking with authors who have ideas for terrific new books, and I have…

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