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  • Robert E. Yager Exemplary Teaching Award—2018 winners

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    The Robert E. Yager Exemplary Teaching Award recognizes six full-time K–12 teachers of science who successfully use innovation and excellence in their classroom. District II None awarded District IV James Brown …

  • See photos and get resources from NSTA 2018 Atlanta

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    I feel recharged and activated after attending a conference and taking a few weeks to reflect and prepare to put the new understandings into practice. Whether or not you attended the 2018 NSTA national conference you…

  • Ed News: Federal STEM Education Programs Lack Coordination, Watchdog Finds

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    This week in education news, GAO finds federal STEM education programs lack coordination; Juneau School District considers teaching climate change; teaching kids not to be afraid of math might help them achieve;…

  • “It Gets Easier”: A Teacher’s Notes from the NGSS Trenches

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    It gets easier. Even after two summers of writing NGSS-aligned curriculum units with the Michigan Science Teaching and Assessment Reform (MiSTAR) project, I found my first pilot experience teaching a MiSTAR NGSS-aligned…

  • Is "instant snow" a good model for actual snow?

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    Children often use ordinary objects to represent other objects—a block might become a phone, or a rock might become a cookie, during their play. This imaginative play means they understand that the “phone” and the “…

  • What Are Conferences For?

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    I’m exhausted. I just got back from a whirlwind NSTA ed-venture. I had to check to see what the students covered with the SUB while I was gone, I had to submit lesson plans for the week. I have to catch up on grading as…

  • Congress Agrees to Final FY18 Spending Package

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    This week both the House and Senate have <finally> passed legislation on federal funding for fiscal year 2018, and President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law, ending the threat of  another…

  • Safer Breakerspaces

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      Breakerspaces are areas where students demolish, repurpose, fix, or disassemble appliances, electronics, toys, and other devices to learn how they work, what components were used to create them, and how they…

  • Ed News: Want More Girls In Science Fields? Check The Images On Your Classroom Walls

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    This week in education news, new study finds the older students get, the more their image of a “scientist” comes into line with that stereotypical view; new federal appropriation bill pours money into school safety…

  • The Vernier Go Direct Radiation Monitor: Well Worth the 90-Year Wait

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    Stephen Hawking died recently marking 2018 as another date in science history from which events will be measured. Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the same year Galileo died. And it is that 1642 date that is often used as…

  • Ed News: How P-16 Education Can Increase Women In STEM Fields

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    This week in education news, the majority of the nation’s seniors will graduate having never taken physics; report finds teacher shortage and lack of supplies delay rollout of the new science standards in California;…

  • Making Connections @ NSTA 18

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    It is day 2 of the NSTA National Conference! One of my favorite ways to start the day is the Elementary Extravaganza—it’s a great event with lots of hands-on activities and demonstrations specifically for elementary…

  • #NSTA18 Atlanta: Day 1

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    What a day! If your shoulders are not throbbing, bags not over-flowing, and brain not racing… you may have not been at the same conference as I was. I teach middle school Earth & Space Science and Environmental…

  • Ron Clark's Opening Session: "We need to inspire the next generation!"

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    Ms. Valeria (@GA_ScienceRodva) captured the essence of Ron Clark’s dynamic presentation to thousands of science teachers first thing Thursday morning with her sketchnotes. More About the 2018 National Conference on…

  • #NSTA18 Atlanta: Tweet All About It!

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    The 2018 NSTA National Conference started with selfies, and quickly evolved into group shots!   Science selfies at the Alabama booth in the registration area! #NSTA18 pic.twitter.com/TxebvjxlAI — Cindy…

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