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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Simulation of the Sun's annual path in the sky
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—From the NSTA Learning Center
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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…
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Exploring the Role of Student Seating Preference and Performance in a Large Introductory STEM Course
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Most introductory courses are held in large lecture halls, with students typically sitting in either the front, middle, or back of the classroom. In a mixed-methods study of student attendance, performance, and seat…
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Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about…
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Sustainability, Energy, and the Green Economy
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Interdisciplinary education offers a collaborative approach to multifaceted topics, such as environmental sustainability. In this article, we present the conceptual framework and lessons learned from a team-taught…
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Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) may identify with multiple roles during their introductory biology teaching experiences. This study developed an instrument that measures TA role identity in introductory biology.…
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Instruction that increases acceptance of evolution is essential to effective biology instruction, but instruction about evolution is not consistently correlated with increased levels of acceptance. Does the pedagogical…
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