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view from my office at NSTA Headquarters I’ll be heading home soon after a wonderful time in Philadelphia. The food here is awesome; I loved my “fancy-schmancy” hotel (Loews Philadelphia); and I bought nearly…
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Ted Koehn with his arsenal of inexpensive/free materials Last year in New Orleans, I attended the session Sixty Labs You Can Do with Little or No Budget (see related posts below). Last year, so many people were…
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After the last session today was over at 6:00 PM, I went out for dinner. I didn’t try to eavesdrop on the nearby table, but when I heard science notebook, nature study, and rubric, I knew I was sitting near some…
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Arthur Eisenkraft Arthur Eisenkraft (former NSTA president) asked an interesting question: Would Faraday have succeeded in today’s urban American schools? In many of today’s schools, Faraday might not have been…
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Bridging the Outdoors with Science Education, ELA, Art, and Historical Perspectives Sheri Amsel is a biologist and artist who created the Exploring Nature website. Her session focused on using nature trails and…
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Bill Nye Asking questions NSTA Avenue Picking up ideas
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Improving Your Students' Graphing and Graph Interpretation Practices Tony Bartley (from Thunder Bay, Ontario) and Mike Bowen (from Halifax, Nova Scotia) discussed how to improve students’ data literacy. They…
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Ellis Island...Science and Immigration Policy Ellis Island Ambassadors Barbara DeSantis, Cindy Jenkins, and Beth Topinka are interested in investigating how government policy and science are intertwined and…
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Creating tomorrow's STEM workforce
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Katherine Johnson helped pave the way for women and African Americans in technical fields Have you ever heard of Katherine Johnson, an African American woman who helped calculate the orbits that put Neil Armstrong on…
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Full disclosure–NSTA got me hooked on the CSI programs. Ordinarily I would have ignored them, but when I heard that these shows excite students about science, I had to see at least one episode. Eventually I was watching…
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The NSTA Store has a corner where we can meet the authors of current and popular books. Steve Rich was here today to sign copies of his latest book Outdoor Science: A Practical Guide. There are lots of…
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I headed over to the exhibit hall just before it opened. I was surprised to see so many eager educators waiting for the doors to open, even on the third day! Since they had still had a few minutes before the doors…
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Rest? Not much, even on the weekend
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Some NSTA attendees take a few minutes to rest their feet. Mary B asked yesterday if Ben Smith and Jared Mader ever rest. I’m starting to think that would be a good question for several attendees. I’ve been here for…
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Hughes High School, a STEM-focused school in Cincinnati, has an intersession which students devote to their projects. As luck would have it this year, the intersession is the same week as the NSTA conference in…
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ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education) sponsored a series of seven sessions (spread out over two days) presented by two of the most dynamic educators I’ve ever met: Ben Smith and Jared Mader of the…
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