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Science of Golf: course set up
I have a love-hate relationship with golf. Growing up on a midwestern farm, “green” was spring and summer. Today, “green” has very different meanings. Do I want to land my approach shot onto a perfect one? Sure I do (not that it happens all t...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) offers a growing collection of resources around the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)....
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Professional Development Options
I was recently appointed K-12 science department chairperson. Our professional development budget is slim, but I’d like to do something other than the generic “sit-and-git” presentations we’ve had in the past. I’ve heard about u...
By Mary Bigelow
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This golfer is waiting for the green to clear....
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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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 inquiry (ADI) instruction model, which consists...
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-old Gary Player, or my college-golfer (and budding engineer) daughter who works out with an ex-NFL ...
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 what happens during those 500 microseconds in Science of Golf: Energy in Collisions and Compression...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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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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At the end of the year, my principal mentioned—again—that he wanted Honors Biology to be the “hardest” ninth grade course. I have tried explaining and showing that my Honors students are having different, more thought-provokin...
By Mary Bigelow
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Ken Roy, NSTA Chief Science Safety Compliance Consultant and NSTA Safety Advisory Board Contact, has some comments based on the issue of a substitute leaving a science lab unattended, a situation described in a previous blog entry:...
By Mary Bigelow
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Living near Tampa—the so-called “lightning capital”—and having a college-golfer (and budding engineer) daughter who plays daily, I’m always a bit jittery about localized storms that pop up regularly here during the summer. With a 60% chance...
By Judy Elgin Jensen