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Supplementing a budget decrease
Our principal just informed us that the science department budget will be decreased for next year. It’s already bare bones, so my colleagues and I are interested in finding other funding sources such as grants. What do we need to know to get starte...
By Mary Bigelow
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System exploration in early childhood
When winter sets in, teachers set aside time in the schedule for children to remove and store their winter outwear. Such a variety of clothing systems appear! Coats and jackets with zippers, hoods, snaps and Velcro, mittens and gloves, hats that pull...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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In a letter to the West Virginia Board of Education, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) encourages the members of the Board to eliminate changes that were made to the Next Generation Content Standards and Objectives for Science in West ...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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The Pasco Wireless Dissolved Oxygen Probe VS. Winter Water
The power of a Bluetooth-connected Dissolved Oxygen probe is not only from the DO data, but the places the data can be collected, and the ways the data is presented. Over the holidays I took the Pasco wireless DO probe up in the mountains to genera...
By Martin Horejsi
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Science "home"work for interested students
I have several students this year who are really into science. I’d like to provide or suggest some elementary-level projects or activities that parents can do with them at home to encourage this interest. Do you have any ideas beyond book lists and...
By Mary Bigelow
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NSTA’s K–College Science Education Journals: January 2015 Issues Online
Is your science classroom equipped for success? Or are you teaching with limited resources?...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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This March, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) will feature a special strand “Natural Resources, Natural Partnerships” at our 2015 National Conference on Science Education, in Chicago, March 12–15....
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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National Bird Day Resources from NSTA Press
Today is National Bird Day, and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has some great resources you can use to celebrate! Enjoy these free chapters from NSTA Press—they will ease you into the new year and help you look forward to spring....
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Movie Magic Can Jump Start Your Science, Math, and Technology Lessons
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By Carole Hayward
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Problem solving and engineering in play
Unless teachers and parents resist the urge to help as soon as we first see that a child has a problem, we might miss seeing how the child can solve it, possibly developing new skills in the process....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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By Carole Hayward
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What would YOUR End of the Year Recommendation (Resolution) be to the Business Community?
In 2007, Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future (RAGS) was released from the National Academies Press and heralded the need for improved performance in producing a STEM prepared workforce f...
By Christine Royce
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I like to consider my classroom as a partnership with the students. So this year (my first year), the students were able to choose their own teams for cooperative learning and lab activities. This worked out in some cases, but there are teams that do...
By Mary Bigelow
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"Extras" for NSTA journals
Students are naturally inquisitive and eager to learn. The NSTA K-12 journals for December have many ideas and suggestions for teachers to tap into these inquiring minds....
By Mary Bigelow
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Must read—take S&C home over winter break
The December issue of Science and Children will be an issue I refer to often....
By Peggy Ashbrook