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Science of Innovation: synthetic diamonds
You’re celebrating a romantic little restaurant or some other special place. Your significant other presents you with a small velvet box containing a huge diamond ring or flawless diamond cuff links. Would you like the sparkling gems any less if yo...
By admin
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Guest Post by LaMoine L. Motz, PhD, Sandra West Moody, PhD, and James T. Biehle, AIA...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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With the heavy spring rains in my neighborhood there has been some erosion of soil on a slope in the park and soil from the baseball field has been washed across the sidewalk. There are not many fiction or non-fiction books for young children that in...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Rodger Bybee Makes The Case for STEM Education
What do we mean when we say “STEM education”? For years now, we’ve recited that STEM means “science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.” We’re often somewhat less precise when it comes to defining what STEM ...
By Carole Hayward
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Classroom Science: Finding the Right Balance Between Supervision and Curious Experimentation
A recent Huffington Post article (Kiera Wilmot, 16, Arrested And Expelled For Explosive ‘Science Experiment’) has drawn quite a bit of attention from our readers. And it certainly got our attention as well. The National Science Teachers Associati...
By David Evans, NSTA Executive Director
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NSTA Press: 2013 AEP Distinguished Achievement Awards Finalists
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) is pleased to share the news that several of our publications have been named finalists for the 2013 Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Awards. We would like to thank our s...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Communicating with parents and other caregivers is important for student success. The topic of parental involvement has been addressed in NSTA blogs and publications, with ideas for parent conferences, back-to-school nights or open houses, summer act...
By Mary Bigelow
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Flatten the Classroom with the iGo Microscope
Although many handheld technologies of Star Trek seem antiquated, or perhaps even steam punkish in todays world, there are still a few pieces of Treknata that we dream of. But that list just got one item shorter with the iGo wireless microscope....
By Martin Horejsi
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Toward the end of the school year, you might be looking for a culminating activity in which students can apply what they’ve learned during the year to new situations or problems. This issue has ideas that help students investigate the big idea of t...
By Mary Bigelow
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What will we do, where will we go with the NGSS?
On Tuesday, April 9, the final Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a new set of voluntary, rigorous, and internationally benchmarked standards for K—12 science education, were released....
By Christine Royce
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I am a student teacher in sixth grade earth science. My question is about makeup exams. I have several ideas, but can you suggest other systems or procedures for allowing students to make up exams? —Dawn, San Jose, California...
By Mary Bigelow
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Upping the Ante: A Classroom Gas Chromatograph!
The gas chromatograph, until recently, has been a founding member in the exclusive club of scientific instrumentation that lived only in the rarified air of serious scientific laboratories....
By Martin Horejsi
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What science happens in your sandbox?
A pile of sand, a sandbox or a sensory table full of sand are tools for imaginative play, sensory exploration and science investigations....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Including Students With Disabilities in Advanced Science Classes
The 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) report Women, Minorities, and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering...
By Carole Hayward