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The 6th Annual STEM Forum & Expo is the Place to Be for Upper Elementary Educators
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Any and all upper elementary educators looking to build their repertoire of STEM knowledge would benefit from attending the 6th Annual STEM Forum & Expo. The Expo will be held in Kissimmee/Orlando, Florida…
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I have some chemistry students who ask “Why do we have to learn this?” How can I address this other saying “you’ll need it in college.” —D., Delaware Why are we studying this? What good is this? It’s easy to answer…
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Live! And recorded, music and nature
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How is the experience of listening to, attending to, live music different from listening to a recording? I can be very moved by recorded music, moved to sing along or dance. A particular piece of recorded music can…
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Congress (Finally) Approves FY2017 Budget
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Although we are now more than half way through FY2017, as expected both the House and Senate passed, and President Trump signed into law, the bill for FY2017 appropriations before the May 5 deadline that would have…
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Ed News: Helping Parents Understand The Next Generation Science Standards
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This week in education news, Achieve releases a series of parent guides that explain how science instruction is changing and why; California administers pilot test for new science standards; science funding spared…
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STEM Sims: Data Visualization Introduction STEM Sims provides over 100 simulations of laboratory experiments and engineering design products for integration into STEM classroom instruction. One particular…
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Teaching About Science in the News
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Tenth graders in Kathryn Kennedy’s science class at Prairie Seeds Academy in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, discuss current events related to a Bioethics unit. Photo credit: Kathryn Kennedy “To be a good science teacher, it’…
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Focus on Physics: The Delightful Catenary Curve
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Figure 1. A. Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. B. St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. When teaching how tension and compression relate to geometrical structures such as bridges, arches, and domes, I show a picture of the Notre…
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Early Childhood and Lower Elementary Teachers Need to Attend the 6th Annual STEM Forum & Expo
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Come join us at the 6th Annual STEM Forum & Expo. It is the event where early childhood and lower elementary teachers need to be. It is a unique event where you will find a great deal of focused ideas on how to…
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FY2017 Funding, Vouchers and More
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First up—guidance you do not want to miss: Last week, the U.S. Department of Education issued a seven page memo detailing possible uses of federal funding through ESSA to support STEM education. The must-see…
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Recently, there was a question about what to do when students were off-task. I conduct many professional development programs, and I could use some ideas to keep adult participants on-task! —T., Virginia As a presenter…
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Ed News: What The Latest Assaults on Science Education Look Like
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This week in education news, Bill Nye thinks Pruitt and DeVos are the least qualified people for their agencies; science advocates double down on their outreach attempts; some teachers may be misleading students about…
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Commentary: Going Beyond the Textbook
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It has been said that science began “whenever and wherever [people] tried to solve the innumerable problems of life” (Sarton 1952). The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States 2013) call for the pursuit of…
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Ideas and inspiration from NSTA’s April 2017 K-12 journals
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Two articles of interest to all K-12 teachers: Commentary: The Importance of Cultivating Empathy in STEM from Science Scope, discusses how students can understand how STEM-related issues can affect people and society…
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Planning Three-Dimensional Instruction
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Knowing that content material is most engaging when students can relate to it, I always begin my year with a student survey. The questions are designed to help me design lessons to be as student-focused as possible.…
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