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Are Your Lab Investigations Argument Driven?

The 27 lab investigations in the new NSTA Press book Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 follow the argument-driven...

By Carole Hayward

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Science of Golf: Newton’s Third

Male, female, young, old … physical workouts can be as important to low scores as club and ball design—just ask Rickie Fowler, Belen Mozo, 78-year...

By Judy Elgin Jensen

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Science of Golf: collisions and compressions

Self-taught, long-ball hitter Bubba Watson gets a greater payoff from the collision between the driver and the ball than most anyone on tour. Find out...

By Judy Elgin Jensen

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Three Ways To Be An NSTA Volunteer

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By Carole Hayward

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Count on These Science Stories to Engage Your Students

“Our students should be able to at least reason quantitatively: to read and interpret data, graphs, and statistics....

By Carole Hayward

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How Can NSTA Help Me Meet the Needs of ALL Students?

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By Carole Hayward

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What is "Rigor"?

At the end of the year, my principal mentioned—again—that he wanted Honors Biology to be the “hardest” ninth grade course. I h...

By Mary Bigelow

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Science safety

Ken Roy, NSTA Chief Science Safety Compliance Consultant and NSTA Safety Advisory Board Contact, has some comments based on the issue of a substitute ...

By Mary Bigelow

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Five Ways to Spend 15 Minutes with Science Scope

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By Carole Hayward

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Science of Golf: meteorology

Living near Tampa—the so-called “lightning capital”—and having a college-golfer (and budding engineer) daughter who plays daily, I’m always ...

By Judy Elgin Jensen

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Lemonade Stands and Summer Activity Resources

Thanks to a teacher who was moving and in a new job, I received boxes of resources from Zoobooks to CESI publications to posters that will interest ch...

By Peggy Ashbrook

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How Can I Integrate Science and Technology?

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By Carole Hayward

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Science of Golf: Newton 1 & 2

From 0 to 175 mph in a fraction of a second, today’s top golfers can turn a golf ball into one of the fastest projectiles in sports. Science of ...

By Judy Elgin Jensen

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NSTA’s K-College Science Education Journals: July 2014 Issues Online

Science teachers get a break from lesson planning this month, so it’s a nice time to ponder other questions: What informal science experiences a...