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Your thoughts on alternative certification
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“Different Routes to Science Teaching Lead to Common Ground,” the cover story of the November 2010 issue of NSTA Reports, looks at alternative certification and how “alt-certs” and their traditionally certified…
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NSTA Executive Director Francis Eberle Thank you all for your great comments on my first blog post! This is a first for me and I wasn’t sure what the responses would be. There are some great examples of what is…
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Science at The National Association for the Education of Young Children's national conference
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The National Association for the Education of Young Children‘s annual conference has plenty of sessions about teaching science to young children, so many that I am going to have to make some tough decisions about which…
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I’ve used some of your suggestions on class participation, but this year I have several fifth-graders who try to monopolize class discussions and often ask questions that are off-topic or beyond the scope of the lesson…
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USA Festival of Science and Engineering 2010—just a fraction of what was there
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I had a good time at the USA Science and Engineering Festival Expo in Washington, D.C. on October 23 and 24. I was really impressed with the large number of people attending—great diversity of age, sex, ethnicity,…
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Popular classroom resources at the KC conference
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The on-site Science Store at the Kansas City Area Conference has been bustling. Books and gear items garnering a lot of attention include John Haysom and Michael Bowen’s new NSTA Press book Predict, Observe, Explain:…
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The fall is my favorite season — the colorful leaves, the cooler weather, the different position of the sun that gives everything a slightly different look. For most of us, it’s also the beginning of a new school year…
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Teaching and learning about wind energy
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On an appropriately blustery morning in Kansas City, the short course “Wind Energy for the Science Classroom,” led by Joe Rand of The KidWind Project in St. Paul, MN, supplied participants with background information…
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Blogging resumes for NSTA Chapters and Associated Groups community
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Hello everyone! I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself —I’m Teshia Birts, one of the newest members of the NSTA staff. You may have seen the message Howard Wahlberg sent about me a…
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Physics filtered through a three-year-old
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“Whether we like it or not,” Christoph Niemann writes at the New York Times website, “human life is subject to the universal laws of physics.” He goes on to illustrate: My day, for example, starts with a demonstration…
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Click here for the Table of Contents Many science curriculum guides are identifying “big ideas” (or essential questions, underlying themes, understandings) that provide context or a framework for helping students to…
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President Obama invites you to the USA Science and Engineering Festival
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The big event takes place on the National Mall and around the country this weekend. Here’s your personal invitation: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxTw1sUKvk[/youtube] See you there! Be sure…
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Science fairs and alternatives
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I have my eighth-grade honors physical science classes do traditional science fair projects (trifold board display with research essay and lab report). This year there has been some discussion within our department…
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Francis's blog on all things science education
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NSTA Executive Director Francis Eberle Welcome to my blog about issues and concerns to science educators and science education. At least once each month I will introduce a new topic that I hope will generate some…
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Join in forming a Science Interest Forum for early childhood educators
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Dear early childhood educators and researchers, We’re writing to invite you to join us in applying to NAEYC to form an Early Childhood Science Interest Forum. The purpose of the forum is to: Provide a forum for the…
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