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Observing students as an assessment
As part of a science methods class, we’ve been assigned to create an observation tool to assess students. I’ve seen many articles and sugg...
By Mary Bigelow
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What science teachers are reading February 2014
From lessons on writing in science class to exploring and debating socioscientific issues to translating NGSS for classroom instruction, take a look a...
By Claire Reinburg
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Afterschool Science Engagement
In this month’s Reaching the Stakeholders section of the Leaders Letter, there is mention of a feature on NPR which raised the point about engagemen...
By Christine Royce
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Science Literacy and Pseudoscience
A recent blog post “Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience” got me thinking about a topic of deep personal concern. As head of the Natio...
By David Evans, NSTA Executive Director
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I’ve recently switched from a self-contained sixth-grade classroom to a middle school science position where I meet with five different classes each...
By Mary Bigelow
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Science of the Winter Olympics: Stability & Vibration
You think the 2014 Winter Olympic Games are over? Not by a long shot. Glue your eyes back on NBC for the Paralympic Winter Games March 7–16. There, ...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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This is a wonderful themed issue, with all of the articles focusing on helping younger students investigate and understand the science of sound. Unfor...
By Mary Bigelow
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Early childhood science in preschool—a conversation on Lab Out Loud
Listen in on a conversation between early childhood educator and researcher Karen Worth and the science teachers hosts of Lab Out Loud, Dale Basler an...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Science of the Winter Olympics: Movement & Robotics
Did you see an Olympic performance (perhaps Davis & White’s gold-medal ice dance) that looked so perfect, so flawless, that it seemed almost rob...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Are you attending the NSTA conference in Boston this spring?...
By Mary Bigelow
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Science of the Winter Olympics: Physics of Figure Skating
Many would call the figure skating events the most elegant of all of the winter Olympic sports. The spins. The tosses. The leaps. How on earth do they...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Planning and carrying out investigations
According to the editor, “Although the practice of planning and carrying out investigations has always been a part of good science instruction, ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Science of the Winter Olympics: Faster & Safer Bobsleds
Controlled violence. That’s what Steve Langton of the U.S. Bobsled Team calls his sport, in which he’s huddled in a bullet-shaped, finned shell ma...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Social Science Teachers: Meet Us at #NSTA14
How do you start an #organellewar? Create a virtual Professional Learning Community? Use Facebook with preservice teachers? Flip your classroom? Use Y...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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DiscoverE brings us Engineers Week
Next week is Engineers Week, February 16-22, “a time to:...
By Peggy Ashbrook