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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
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Explore Outstanding Educational Resources: 2015 REVERE Awards Finalists
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By Claire Reinburg
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What time of day is best for science?
When scheduling science at the elementary level, which is better for students: having science class in the morning or the afternoon? We have always had reading and math in the morning with science and social studies in the afternoon. But now my colle...
By Mary Bigelow
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NSTA's K-12 April/May Science Education Journals Online
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By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Building with Blocks: Exploring stability and change in systems
In my neighborhood, flowing rainwater from rooftops and yards is making a small gully in the hillside before it runs into the street and goes into the storm sewer. The hillside used to be just a grassy slope. As the original bare patch deepened, root...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Do you have any suggestions on how to help students review and apply what they learn during a unit? I’ve tried creating games and contests, but the students don’t seem to get much out of them. —C., Minnesota Many teachers have special revie...
By Mary Bigelow
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Designed to provide an interactive laboratory experience to science students across a wide range of ability levels, the einstein Tablet+ is a mobile device produced by Fourier Education designed to provide an interactive laboratory experience to scie...
By Edwin P. Christmann
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Create Teachable Moments for Your Students
Like classroom teachers at all levels and disciplines, you have probably experienced teachable moments....
By Carole Hayward
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Ideas from visiting another classroom
Visiting other schools always makes me think about classroom organization, I get new ideas about how to document children’s learning, and gets me thinking about changes I want to implement in my teaching. Changes in weather often lead to changes in...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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NSTA’s SciLinks has a searchable database of vetted websites with information, graphics, and lesson plans. These cover topics K-12 in the life, physical and earth sciences as well as health and engineering. The sites are correlated to specific...
By Mary Bigelow
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Sylvia Shugrue award winner 2015
Hong Kong International School teacher Wendy Smith’s MaKey MaKey Circuits lesson is part of a Programming and Electronics unit, one of two new science units she has created for the fourth grade this year, says Gene Cheh, associate principal....
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Help Your Students Achieve Earth Science Success
NSTA Press authors Catherine Oates-Bockenstedt and Michael Oates, a daughter-father team, have collaborated on a second edition of ...
By Carole Hayward