NSTA Professional Development Trip: Part VI

Blog Post | July 2012

Arenal to Monteverde NSTA Costa Rica Trip Day 7 July 29, 2012 (posted on behalf of Greg Neff) Arenal erupted on July 29, 1969.  This eruption occurred on the north side of the volcano and killed…

NSTA Professional Development Trip: Part III

Blog Post | July 2012

  Night 2 (posted on behalf of Greg Neff) July 25, 8-12:00 pm Returned to the research center for the second night shift of monitoring the turtles. It was a beautiful starry night, not a cloud in…

NSTA conference—your first one?

Blog Post | January 2012

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

NSTA—it's not just teachers!

Blog Post | March 2011

The name may be National Science Teachers Association, but our members—and conference presenters—are involved at all levels of education. Improving STEM Teaching and Education: A Superintendent’s…

Latest from NSTA's online outposts

Blog Post | May 2010

What’s New for May 31 on NSTA’s various online outposts Happy Memorial Day! Many of you are wanting to download the resources from the conference in Philadelphia. Here’s how. Highlights of…

Latest from NSTA's online outposts

Blog Post | May 2010

What’s New for May 17 on NSTA’s various online outposts Many of you are wanting to download the resources from the conference in Philadelphia. Here’s how. Highlights of stimulating conversations…

Latest from NSTA's online outposts

Blog Post | May 2010

What’s New for May on NSTA’s various online outposts Many of you are wanting to download the resources from the conference in Philadelphia. Here’s how. On our listservs, flood relief…

Science talk in Philadelphia at the NSTA national conference

Blog Post | March 2010

Science talk between students (not teacher-to-student)—is that possible? We learned how to get started at Kathy Renfrew’s session, NSTA  Science Talk: A Tool for Making Meaning, on Thursday.…

Latest from NSTA's online outposts

Blog Post | March 2010

Recent Activity on NSTA’s various online outposts On our listservs, there are great conversations about moldy cats (yes, that’s right, moldy cats) on our Biology list,  engineering and Newton’s laws on…

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Blog Post | February 2010

What’s New, 2/22/2010 On our listservs, there are great conversations about meiosis and fruit flies on our Biology list, reaction rates on our Chemistry list, teaching seasons and stars on our Earth Science…

Latest from NSTA's online outposts

Blog Post | February 2010

What’s New, 2/1/2010 Here’s a quick look (with lots of links!) at what’s going on at NSTA’s online outposts: In the NSTA online professional learning communities, we have new groups…

Latest from NSTA's online outposts

Blog Post | January 2010

Lots going on across the spectrum of NSTA’s online outposts. Here’s a quick list of what buzz is happening where: On our “core site” (www.nsta.org): everyone’s gearing up for our…

What's new with NSTA's members?

Blog Post | January 2010

NSTA members are in conversation in all kinds of places—on these blogs, in NSTA’s Listservs, on our new online communities, and throughout our external social media outposts, such as Facebook and LinkedIn.…

Nature of science: a new NSTA position statement

Blog Post | January 2020

Winter weather often makes us wonder how wild animals survive without a heated environment. Combining this wondering with children’s love of teddy bears, and the 100’s of bear songs and finger plays to be found…