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Our new principal wants us to come up with goals to accomplish in the next year. He hasn’t provided much guidance yet, so I don’t know what to do. How can I do this meaningfully? —J., Delaware...
By Mary Bigelow
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Ecosystem experiences away from home
For children who visit the ocean beach or shore this summer, the experience of visiting a very different ecosystem can inspire interest in animals that inhabit it, and wonder about “how did it get this way?” Children who experience the beach and ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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America COMPETES Act Reauthorization
Earlier this spring the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act Reauthorization Act of 2015 (HR 1806) by a vote of 217-205, with 23 Republicans joining every Democrat present in voting against the bill....
By Jodi Peterson
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On a recent trip to visit friends in Lewes, Delaware, I had a bagel from Surf Bagels for the first time. This delicious and perfectly constructed bagel got me thinking about how they are produced. It turns out there are a number of STEM topics in ba...
By Becky Stewart
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Systems: "Science Areas" and lining-up for transitions
Organizing systems for materials and people are necessary for a productive day in school. If they are held in common by the school or classroom community they operate smoothly. Sometimes changes made by an individual interrupt the flow. In those mome...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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The most recent NSTA K-12 journals have suggestions, lesson ideas, and resources for helping all students engage with the disciplinary content, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices that make up the NGSS. Science & Childre...
By Mary Bigelow
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Formative Assessment with Online Tools
[youtube]http://youtu.be/YPKSOkkSZuY[/youtube] In this video, columnists Ben Smith and Jared Mader share information from their Science 2.0 column, “Formative Assessment with Online Tools,” that appeared in a recent issue of The Science Teacher. ...
By sstuckey
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There’s a cartoon making its way around the internet – the standard outlets – Facebook, Pinterest etc. that highlights what “normal people see on vacation” and how “scientists view their vacation.” It has scientific subtitles for all ...
By Christine Royce
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By Juliana Texley
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I want to encourage elementary students to spend time outside. We don’t have a lot of funds for field trips, and I think it would be better to have an ongoing project. I also want to involve teachers and students of all grade levels and subject...
By Mary Bigelow
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Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science
Author Richard Konicek-Moran spent years studying and researching children’s alternative conceptions in science and author Page Keeley acquired her passion for improving conceptual understanding using formative ass...
By Carole Hayward
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Webinars for K-5 on teaching the NGSS: making sense of phenomena using evidence
The National Science Teachers Association’s Web Seminars are free, 90-minute, live professional development experiences....
By Peggy Ashbrook