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  • President Obama invites you to the USA Science and Engineering Festival

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    The big event takes place on the National Mall and around the country this weekend. Here’s your personal invitation: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxTw1sUKvk[/youtube] See you there! Be sure…

  • Oil spill resources

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    Jean May-Brett of the Louisiana Department of Education has passed on several websites that teachers may find useful in discussing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean…

  • STEM ed … with whiz

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    Governor Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania addressed the “Science Matters” Town Hall Meeting in Philadelphia on Friday, March 19. In addition to describing the success of Pennsylvania’s STEM education…

  • The calm before

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    Things are quiet for now at the registration area in Philadelphia (noon on Wednesday—attendee registration opens at 5:00). But things are buzzing in the Exhibit Hall. An NSTA staffer called it “sausage being…

  • Sylvia Shugrue award winner 2019

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    Lori Nelson Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School, Huntsville AL Lori Nelson is committed to STEM education through her classroom instruction, applying for grants, pursuing professional development, creating…

  • Sylvia Shugrue award winner 2018

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    Jayda Pugliese Andrew Jackson Elementary School, Philadelphia PA As a teacher in Philadelphia, the most significant obstacle that Jayda Pugliese has encountered is the lack of resources due to budget constraints…

  • Simulation of the Sun's annual path in the sky

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    —From the NSTA Learning Center

  • Watch presentations on Ustream

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    You can watch a few Presentations on Ustream.tv.  Watch and chat with us! Current Presentation Schedule: Eugenie Scott: After Dover: The New Creationism Friday, March 28 3:30–4:30 PM EST Bill Nye…

  • Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

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  • Q: How Can a Design Challenge Be Used To Teach Science?

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  • Utilizing Technology to DiALoG Classroom Speaking and Listening

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  • Ecosystem Cycles

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the transfer of matter and energy in ecosystems. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that only matter is cycled through an…

  • Issues of Question Equivalence in Online Exam Pools

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    During the pandemic, the use of question pools for online testing was recommended to mitigate cheating, exposing multitudes of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students across the globe to this…

  • Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19

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    Undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are tasked with instructing undergraduate courses with little to no professional development (PD). To better develop PD opportunities, it is important to understand…

  • Ectotherm ER: Frogs Under the Weather

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