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Students’ Ideas Matter! Linking Formative Assessment Probes to Instructional Sequence teaching is all about creating conceptual coherence for learners to better prepare them for future careers....
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Education research, policy, and practice with minoritized student groups were traditionally framed in terms of what the students were lacking and how to fix this problem (a deficit-oriented view). In recent years, there have been growing efforts to l...
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Education research, policy, and practice with minoritized student groups were traditionally framed in terms of what the students were lacking and how to fix this problem (a deficit-oriented view). In recent years, there have been growing efforts to l...
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High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) designed for next generation science can make a difference in the quality of equitable science teaching and learning throughout the educational system and for all learners (i.e., for all leaders, teachers, ...
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FA22: Topic Study for Elementary Teachers: Designing Meaningful 3-D Assessments
This topic study for elementary school teachers on assessing three-dimensional learning will move our learning community from research to practice over the course of four weeks. We will use high-quality instructional and assessment materials to ident...
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In this web seminar, the presenters share how an Engineering for Sustainable Communities (EfSC) approach in the middle grades can foster critical consciousness and support strong connections between classrooms and communities. The presenters show how...
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Have you wanted to implement a Project-Based Learning unit in your classroom? Would you like to introduce PBL curriculum in your school? Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL), an Open Education Resource, provides interdisciplin...
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Have you wanted to implement a Project-Based Learning unit in your classroom? Would you like to introduce PBL curriculum in your school? Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL), an Open Education Resource, provides interdisciplin...
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Archive: Exploration Generation: Sensemaking in Rocketry, November 9, 2022
This web seminar will introduce teachers to the Exploration Generation Middle School Playlist and Unit Plan. These instructional materials provide equitable STEM experiences to students and increase educator confidence in teaching rocketry. Explore c...
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This web seminar by members of NSTA’s Professional Learning Committee is designed to help teachers deepen their understanding of the effective and practical strategies to facilitate academic discourse that promotes inclusive science and STEM classr...
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Archive: Science Update: Space Telescope Discoveries of Today and Tomorrow, December 1, 2022
Astronomers have been launching space telescopes above the obscuring effects of the Earth’s atmosphere for decades. Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has re-written textbooks and inspired the public with stunning images of the universe. In Jul...
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A great number of the amazing innovations in modern society have resulted from someone making a careful observation, a mistake, or finding out new or different information from experimentation. These unique and serendipitous discoveries tell a story,...
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Four presenters involved in equitable science instructional materials, policy, and professional development share their thoughts on current status and recommendations for the future of research, policy, and practice as we seek to reform science ...
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Archive: FA22: Are Your Lab SOPs in Place for a Safer School Year? October 3, 2022
As the 2022-2023 school year starts, it’s time to re-establish our STEM spaces (for the purposes of this web seminar, STEM spaces include a science lab, technology, and engineering lab [i.e., construction lab], makerspace, etc.) and make sure every...
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This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing secondary level safer science/STEM classroom/laboratory activities with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and, Director of ...
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This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing elementary level safer science/STEM classroom/laboratory activities with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and, Director of...
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Archive: Science Update: Earthquakes: What’s Shakin? September 15, 2022
Did you feel it? An earthquake is a shaking movement of the Earth’s Crust as stress overcomes friction. This web seminar will provide basic background to help attendees make sense of this natural phenomenon. Earthquakes, what they are, w...
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Archive Book Beat Live! Time to Get Ready for the Solar Eclipse Double-Header, August 17, 2022
NSTA’s two award-winning books, Solar Science: Exploring Sunspots, Seasons, Eclipses, and More, and When the Sun Goes Dark provide the perfect resources to help you and your students get ready for the next two solar eclipses coming to the U.S. ...
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Black holes are astrophysical objects with such strong gravity that nothing can escape them, not even light. In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration produced the first images of two supermassive black holes using a netw...
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Archive: NIH Archive: Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code: Playlist, July 27, 2022
Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code provides free lesson plans and storyline units to help guide high school students as they explore various genetics and genomics concepts. Units will culminate in community-focused projects. In this session, partic...
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Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code provides free lesson plans and storyline units to help guide high school students as they explore various genetics and genomics concepts. Units will culminate in community-focused projects....
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Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code provides free lesson plans and storyline units to help guide high school students as they explore various genetics and genomics concepts. Units will culminate in community-focused projects....
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Archive: Fall 2022: Developing a Competitive Application for Shell Teaching Awards, November 7, 2022
Shell Science Teaching Award: This award recognizes one outstanding classroom science teacher (K–12) who has had a positive impact on his or her students, school, and community through exemplary classroom science teaching. K–12 classroo...
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Archive: Science Update: Is Cancer Inevitable? July 14, 2022
What should teachers, their students, and the general public know about the current state of cancer diagnoses, research, and treatments, and what opportunities exist for studies that could lead to contributing careers? Join Johns Hopkins University B...
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The NGSS and other standards based on the Framework of K-12 Education are quite complicated and often tricky to interpret. What teachers need is an easy-to-use reference guide to the standards, and since its’ release in 2014, the NSTA Quick-Ref...
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The Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge Competition recognizes exceptional and innovative science educators for their exemplary approaches to science lab instruction utilizing limited school and laboratory resources. The competition also raises awar...
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Through the STEMwave program, students learn how to build AI-based chatbot solutions for the school website. The program dives deep into machine learning and natural language processing; creating a memorable and meaningful project-based environment i...
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The NSTA Sensemaking Tool (adapted from the research-based NGSS Lesson Screener) is designed to help educators be critical consumers of curricular materials as well as create and/or revise science lessons to reflect the instructional shifts (sensemak...
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Archive: Transforming Science Learning: Keeping Phenomena at the Center of Science, May 4, 2022
Take a peek behind the curtain of creating the NSTA Daily Do lesson plans driven by phenomena to engage all learners. Walk away with a rubric to guide your own lesson design. As a participant of this web seminar you will:...
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Transforming Science Learning: Scientific Literacy: Our Lives Depend On It! June 8, 2022
Join us on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET for another edition of NSTA's Transforming Science Learning member web seminars. Can students spot misinformation in news articles? Are they up-to-date with current science breakthroug...
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Archive: NSTA Teacher Awards – Recognizing Excellence Rewarded, October 27, 2022
Did you come up with an innovative way to teach a lesson? Have you devoted your life to promoting science and the teaching of science? Did you successfully transform science teaching in your classroom? If you answered yes to any of these questions, t...
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Science learning, there is also an emerging body of research demonstrating the role and potential for museums to support the learning of both preservice and in-service teachers. Join us for a lively discussion with panelists from three...
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Archive: Transforming Science Education Through Service to NSTA, September 22, 2022
Question…What do you think the “face of success” looks like? We think it looks like YOU volunteering your time, providing your viewpoints, and applying your experiences. NSTA’s goal is to create a governing body that represents t...
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Strategic partnerships that bring together schools and other organizations–such as museums–have the potential to transform learning in ways that neither partner can accomplish alone. Explore the process, products, and outcomes of such collaborati...
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Join us on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET for another edition of NSTA's Transforming Science Learning member web seminars....
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Transforming Science Learning: Keeping Phenomena at the Center of Science, May 4, 2022
Join us on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET for another edition of NSTA's Transforming Science Learning member web seminars. Take a peek behind the curtain of creating the NSTA Daily Do lesson plans driven by phenomena to engage ...
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Archive: Integrate NSTA in Your Course When Teaching Pre-service Teachers, April 28, 2022
Hundreds of instructors of pre-service teachers of science use NSTA's journal articles, book chapters, web seminars, lesson plans, discussion forums, professional learning units, and interactive e-books+ professional each semester to help their stude...
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Winter 2023: Picture-Perfect STEM Train-the-Trainer
Would you like to learn to present the Picture-Perfect STEM Workshop to teachers in your school or district? If that's the case, please register to attend this two-hour Picture-Perfect STEM Train-the-Trainer virtual session. *The Virtual Picture-P...
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Winter 2023: Picture-Perfect STEM Virtual Workshop with the Authors
Join the authors for a Virtual Picture-Perfect STEM Workshop! Participate in three, 2-hour sessions of live, interactive professional learning with Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan. This workshop will give you the skills, confidence, AND lessons to...
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This topic study for elementary school teachers on assessing three-dimensional learning will move our learning community from research to practice over the course of four weeks. We’ll use high-quality instructional and assessment materials to ident...