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Draft Early Childhood Science Education Position Statement—comment please!
When children compare a wet cloth to a dry cloth, is this teaching a science concept? What role do adults have in preschool science learning? Should teachers discuss science facts with preschoolers or only engage them in hands-on experiences?...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Patterns is one of the crosscutting concepts in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)....
By Mary Bigelow
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Save the Date: NSTA National Conference on Science Education Boston, April 3–6, 2014
Science teachers, put our national conference on your 2014 calendar now. The National Science Teachers Association will be coming to Boston April 3–6, 2014 to put on the premiere event for science education....
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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I’ve noticed my students don’t seem to have a lot of motivation in science class. They are sometimes afraid they’ll make mistakes, and they’re often reluctant to try something new. What can I do to encourage more student engag...
By Mary Bigelow
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NSTA's K-12 Science Education Journals: December Issues Online
The holidays are upon us, but you don’t get a break from teaching quite yet. You need science education resources that you can use in your classroom tomorrow, and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has them for you! Written by edu...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Science + Literacy Featured at NSTA’s Conference in Denver, CO, December 12-14
Learn about science + literacy from experts in the field (your peers!) at NSTA’s Conference on Science Education in Denver, CO, December 12–14....
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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What is your favorite children's or young adult book?
Recently, NSTA and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) announced the winners for the annual list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 (books published in 2013). Previous year’s lists and winners also include books that are...
By Christine Royce
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Science in Washington, DC at the NAEYC 2013 annual conference
Meeting to plan the ECSIF annual meeting. ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Developing critical consumers of science
Each month, the NSTA journals have many ideas for helping students become producers of knowledge, through science investigations and engineering problems. This issue, however, looks at how students can become informed consumers of science and enginee...
By Mary Bigelow
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DC State Board of Education Considers NGSS
Yesterday I appeared before the DC State Board of Education and urged them to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards (see my testimony below). I spoke about how the NGSS would bring positive changes to District classrooms with its new approach t...
By David Evans, NSTA Executive Director
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The RSC’s (Royal Society of Chemistry) Chemistry Week is a themed week of events that is held every two years to promote a positive image of chemistry and increase the public understanding of the importance of chemical science in our everyday...
By Mary Bigelow
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Dissolving the Barriers to Measuring Dissolved Oxygen
The amount of dissolved oxygen (DO) in water is a critical component in the aquatic ecosystem. While measuring the level of DO is a common practice in water quality studies, the sensors often used to capture the data were far from the instantaneous m...
By Martin Horejsi
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NAEYC conference this week in Washington, DC. See you there!
Wednesday through Saturday I’ll be attending sessions at the annual conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). I love that the worlds of science teaching and early childhood teaching overlap!...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Translating the NGSS for Classroom Instruction
Rodger Bybee’s new book Translating the ...
By Carole Hayward
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If you’re not a high school physics teacher, don’t put this issue aside! There are many ideas for interdisciplinary activities and strategies that apply to other subjects and grade levels. And many of them can be done even on a shoestring...
By Mary Bigelow