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Assessment products and processes
What is the purpose of an assessment? The featured articles in this issue show assessment as a true part of the instructional process, not an add-on t...
By Mary Bigelow
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#NSTA13 Charlotte Twitter Contest
Join the #NSTA13 Charlotte Twitter contest! If you’ll be attending the National Science Teachers Association’s Conference on Science Education...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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I’m a new elementary teacher, and I love seeing how students get excited doing hands–on science activities. But the students can get out of hand a...
By Mary Bigelow
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Fall changes in trees bring science and art together
The colors of the autumn leaves in my area call out to me for attention and to bring inside in a basket for the kitchen table. Outside I arrange them ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I’ve talked with teachers who are concerned about the E in STEM. “I barely have time for science, and now I’m supposed to teach engi...
By Mary Bigelow
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The classroom as learning center
Last year (my first year teaching) I floated among several classrooms. A few days before the beginning of this year, I learned that I have my own biol...
By Mary Bigelow
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Reading to support science learning begins with babies
Welcome back to guest blogger Sarah Erdman! Sarah writes about her first-hand observations of sharing books with a toddler....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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So – who’s ready for Mole Day? Rather than competing with the commercial hoopla around Halloween, perhaps we science teachers could get a head...
By Mary Bigelow
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Documentation and discussion at the fish tank
An aquarium in the classroom may be a science center and the site of a morning separation ritual for some children. In addition to daily feeding and c...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Science for the Next Generation: Preparing for the New Standards
If you’re an elementary school teacher who teaches grades K-5, the authors and editors of ...
By Carole Hayward
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Putting Science Words on the Wall
I’ve seen “word walls” in elementary classrooms, but I wonder whether older students would find them helpful in dealing with vocabul...
By Mary Bigelow
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Science of Golf: physics of the golf swing
What do the trebuchet, said to have been invented in China in about 300 BC and Paula Creamer, the 2010 U.S. Women’s Open champion, have in common? T...
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This December, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) will feature a special strand “Engineering the Engineering: Connecting the Why to th...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director