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Ed News: How U.S. STEM Practices Compare Internationally
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This week in education news, new research finds that the level of level of teacher experience is positively associated with levels of student achievement, particularly for black and Latino students; City of Chicago…
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Finding STEM Success in the Post-Secondary Classroom
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The 8th Annual STEM Forum & Expo, hosted by NSTA, this July in San Francisco offers a post-secondary track to help educators create STEM-rich learning environments for students. STEM plays a vital role in…
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Circle of Life 1.0: Planting seeds
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I am working on a lesson plan for the life cycle of a plant for kindergarten. Do you have any activity ideas? — K., Oregon If you’re teaching about life cycles of flowering plants you should incorporate all the life…
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Impact of Change by Jessica Holman and Michelle Schuster
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If you were to walk into our classroom years ago, you would see students from all walks of life, and with a range of ability levels. All of the students were blended together to learn science and were eager to be…
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My kindergarten students believe that small objects are always light and big objects are always heavier. How can I address this misconception? —L., Wyoming Excellent question! This is a major misconception many…
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Why Are Bees so Buzzworthy? Next Time You See One You’ll Know
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“Bee-Wildering! Hives of Notre-Dame in Miraculous Survival” (Phys.Org): Headlines like this dominate the news lately. They go from wildly hopeful like the Notre Dame story, to speculative [Saving Bees With Sugar:…
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They can say the word but can they explain what it means? The “illusion of explanatory depth”
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The use of a particular word can support children’s communication about their understanding of natural phenomena and sometimes obscure the amount or depth of their understanding. A full day preschool class of 4-year-old…
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Ed News: Project-Based Learning Boosts Student Engagement, Understanding
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This week in education news, the last decade has seen widespread degree inflation; NCSE has developed a series of five climate change lessons for science teachers; new Florida bill requires schools to place a stronger…
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How do you maintain classroom management and control during active science lessons? I am curious about how to keep students under control when encouraging movement and active involvement in teaching. — A., Texas I…
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Ideas and inspiration from NSTA journals
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Sometimes it seems like there are artificial boundaries in education: elementary vs. secondary, K-12 vs. higher education, middle school vs. high school. Having been an educator at all of these levels, I’ve found…
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Ed News: Teach STEM Using Laughter, Creative Techniques
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This week in education news, in several states, retired teachers and other state workers haven’t gotten a cost-of-living adjustment to their pension checks in years; Bill Nye’s new podcast—Science Rules—to launch May…
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Learning Visualized with the Vernier Go Direct Hand Dynamometer
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Collecting real-time data is important in science and science education, but it also presents a wonderful opportunity to learn about graphing and data visualization in general. It also provides an inspection into what…
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Appropriators Provide Boost for Federal Education Programs
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ESSA Title IVA and Title II See Increases for FY2020 Programs Earlier this week the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee for Education met to mark up their FY2020 annual spending bill for Labor, Health…
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Adding Inquiry to ‘Cookbook’ Labs
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Jose Rivas’s AP Physics 1 students at Lennox Math, Science, and Technology Academy in Lennox, California, work on a rotational inertia investigation. “I have converted several standard labs from AP Physics 1 to more…
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Why I Am Voting YES for Science Teaching by Judy Boyle
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I am an elementary teacher, not a science teacher. I teach everything from shoelace tying to technology. When I began teaching, my science content knowledge was at a minimal and when I taught science I tiptoed around it…
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