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NSTA’s K-12 Science Education Journals: February Issues Online
It’s February, and many of us are focused on groundhogs, candy, and hoping never to hear the words polar vortex again! Spring is still a few mon...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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If you think that the “history and nature of science” means students reading biographies of scientists of the past, your thoughts may chan...
By Mary Bigelow
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Engineers Week Resources from the National Science Teachers Association
Engineers Week is February 16–22, 2014. Engineering is in the spotlight right now—and science teachers need to know how to incorporate it into the...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Science of the Winter Olympics: Science of Snow
SUPERCOOL! More than just an expression, this state of water figures prominently in snow formation. Find out more about snow and how snow conditions m...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Science of the Winter Olympics: Engineering the Halfpipe
Imagine locking both feet onto a board, hurtling down a vertical face and up the opposing one before becoming airborne, where you twist and flip with ...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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This April, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) will feature a special strand “Engineering and Science: Technological Partners” at ou...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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What the new NSTA Early Childhood Science Education position statement means to me
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has adopted a new position statement, the Early Childhood Science Position Statement. This thoughtful...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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My colleague and I are early–career science teachers at a middle school. Rather than our reinventing the wheel, do you have any suggestions how to m...
By Mary Bigelow
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Each month, columns on safety in the science lab are featured in NSTA’s Science Scope (Scope on Safety) and The Science Teacher (Safer Science)....
By Mary Bigelow
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Concepts that cut across science disciplines
Patterns…cause and effect: mechanism and explanation…scale, proportion, and quantity…systems and system models…energy and matter: flows, cycle...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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This April, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) will feature a special strand “Leading From the Classroom” at our 2014 National Confe...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Science of the Winter Olympics: Injury & Recovery
Lindsey Vonn—probably the closest to a household name as any winter Olympian. Sadly, we won’t be able to see her defend her women’s downhill gol...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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This month’s guest editorials address the theme of science for ALL students:...
By Mary Bigelow
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Kindergarten teacher shares her class' bird investigation
Talking with other early childhood educators enriches my understanding of how children learn and I often learn good ideas for teaching about particula...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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What science teachers are reading in January 2014
From data literacy to citizen science to using trade books in science lessons, take a look at what science teachers are reading so far in 2014 at NSTA...
By Claire Reinburg