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Archive: Science Update: Europa Clipper: Exploring an Ocean World, May 11, 2023
In this web seminar, a team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will share information about the exciting Europa Clipper mission that will explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. Launching in 2024, Europa Clipper will study Europa’s icy surface and su...
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Join us on Thursday, April 13, 2023, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET for another edition of NSTA's Transforming Science Learning....
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Archive: NSTA Teacher Awards – Looking for the Best of the Best, October 17, 2023
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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Archive: Nominations – Your Opportunity to Serve, Inform and Lead, September 21, 2023
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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There will be an annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023 and a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 in the US – an Eclipse Double-Header – with everyone in North America seeing at least a partial eclipse....
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Archive: Science Update: An Eclipse 'Double-Header' is Coming this School Year! August 31, 2023
There will be an annular eclipse this fall and a total eclipse next spring visible in the U.S. Join veteran astronomers and educators Dennis Schatz and Andrew Fraknoi to learn more about what's happening, where the eclipses will be visible, how to vi...
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The FDA recently updated the requirements for nutrition labeling that appear on most packaged food products. This presentation will review the major changes in the Nutrition Facts label, explain why they were necessary, and describe how the label can...
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Archive: Science Update: From Apollo to Artemis: NASA’s Return to the Moon, February 16, 2023
More than 50 years after the Eagle landed at Tranquility Base, NASA has begun its campaign to return astronauts to the surface of our Moon. Named after the mythical twin sister of Apollo, the Artemis program aims to establish a permanent base of oper...
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Join us on Thursday, February 9, 2023, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET for another edition of NSTA's Transforming Science Learning....
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Join us on Thursday, January 26, 2023, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET for another edition of NSTA's Transforming Science Learning....
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Our oceans are filled with items that do not belong there. Huge amounts of plastics, metals, rubber, textiles, lost fishing gear, abandoned vessels, and many more items enter the marine environment every day. This makes marine debris one of the most ...
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Archive: Science Update: Food Agriculture – The Plant Scientist’s Toolbox, March 9, 2023
Humans have used a variety of ways to modify food crops to suit our needs and tastes for more than 10,000 years. Over this time, the plant scientists’ toolbox has grown: first with “traditional” tools (like cross-breeding, selective breeding, a...
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How do we prepare 21st-century kids for challenges and jobs that we currently cannot even describe? The Best STEM Books can help by celebrating convergent and divergent thinking, analysis and creativity, persistence, and the sheer joy of figuring thi...
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This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing secondary level safer science/STEM laboratory activities with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and Dr. Kevin Doyle of Morr...
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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: State of the Climate 2022, January 19, 2023
The past several years have seen too many weather and climate extremes to count, from record-obliterating heat waves to tremendous rainfall events to terrifyingly strong tropical cyclones. What can scientists say about how weather and climate extreme...
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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...