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How's the weather at your science museum?
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photo courtesy of the Franklin Institute Teachers and students are heading to science museums around the country to learn about weather events such as hurricanes, tsunamis, and tornadoes. In the photo, for…
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Getting ready for college chemistry
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photo by Bret Brookshire Why are these Texas high school students from the ChemBridge Program smiling? Perhaps it’s because they’re taking a course that lets them earn college chemistry credit and high…
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A New Reason to Visit the Library
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photo by Michelle Sixta They say “everything old is new again”: The time-honored practice of seed saving is taking a new twist, with seed-lending libraries springing up around the country. California…
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Catch sessions on Framework and Science Standards in Hartford
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Greetings … Interested in learning more about NRC’s Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards now in development, catch one of the many sessions slated for the Hartford…
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I recently became the science department chairperson. My meetings are a disaster! People arrive late and complain when I try to discuss issues. I don’t think we accomplish anything. What can I do to make meetings…
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Click here for the Table of Contents The topic of motion and forces would be in my Top 10 list of topics in which students benefit from hands-on investigations, simulations, and videos. Students of any age (K–12 and…
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photo by Brian Dunkley It may look like a science fair, but the Invention Convention at Crosby Middle School is much more. The event at this Louisville, Kentucky, school is the climax of a three…
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Our department chair is encouraging us to add comments to student writing assignments. This sounds time-consuming; I have more than 100 students in my Earth science classes. Would students even read my comments on lab…
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Young children using microscopes to see more
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Hypolimnas misippus butterfly head photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim Magnifiers and microscopes can reveal small details that children otherwise might not notice. I would love to have a digital microscope in the…
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NSTA Executive Director Francis Eberle Now that the school year is into full swing and students are settling into the routines of the school day, I was thinking about the concept of time. During a recent meeting…
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Click here for the Table of Contents I must say that I really enjoyed this issue. Helping students see the connections and relationships between science and other subjects and interests is a wonderful part of being…
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Science teaching awards for 2011-2012 [Updated]
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Calling all full time pre-kindergarten through second grade teachers! (Tell your upper elementary colleagues too.) Win an award for your innovative science inquiry program through the National Science Teacher…
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Important lessons learned from a teacher
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After reading the moving NPR story of a neurosurgeon who thanked his high school science teacher, investigative reporter Steve Silberman began to imagine all the other stories out there of a teacher’s influence on…
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My middle school students this year are very scatterbrained. It seems to take forever for them to get focused at the beginning of class and to find the materials they need when I ask for them during class. When it’s…
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Treating the economy with STEM students
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Treating the economy with STEM students By Shiv Gaglani I began doing medical research as a freshman. Not in college; in high school. I had the good fortune of being able to find a professional scientist who…
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