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Sharing a few online and in print resources for teachers and families
I’m sharing a few free online resources that I’ve recently come across. Share a resource that you use, by commenting, below. The Fred Rogers Early Learning Environment has many short videos that families and early childhood educators can ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I’m conducting a professional development (PD) workshop on instructional strategies for our elementary science department, sharing some of the great ideas I learned at a conference. The teachers all know each other, so we don’t need the...
By Mary Bigelow
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In my classroom, I liked to have music playing when the students came in. It was usually classical and the students seemed to enjoy it–one student was especially fond of Mozart. From some recent tweets, I discovered several sites with a differe...
By Mary Bigelow
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Early learning experiences build toward understanding concepts that are hard to teach
We all have seen how children begin making sense of the world before they have any formal or informal teaching about a concept or topic…discovering through exploration that the world has textures, some things are for eating and some are not, object...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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The budget situation in the past few years has lead to a number of teacher layoffs and reassignments. In many cases, beginning teachers bear the brunt of these. But often overlooked are the effects of these changes on the teachers who remain (and t...
By Mary Bigelow
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And the definition is??? Defining 21st century skills
Based on many different sectors requests to have schools integrate skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and problem solving into academic subjects, the term of 21st century skills surfaced several years ago and has been promoted throughou...
By Christine Royce
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A point well taken about the Leading Edge
The Leading Edge is a blog that asks those involved in science education leadership whether that be administrators, policy makers, supervisors, state leaders to continue the conversation on something that was presented in the recent issue of The Lead...
By Christine Royce
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Supporting the Common Core-Math
There has always been a connection between science and math, and the new Framework for K-12 Science Education makes that connection even more pronounced. The featured articles in this issue focus on helping students see this connection, and they each...
By Mary Bigelow
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NSTA has been running informal polls of our members online and sharing the results — and your unvarnished comments — in NSTA Reports for about two years. One of the more interesting things I do as the paper’s editor is sift through the comment...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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At the end of the class period, my middle school students want to rush out of the room as soon as the bell rings. Sometimes, I’m in the middle of a sentence and other times they leave the lab in a mess for the next class. Any suggestions for de...
By Mary Bigelow
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Science of the Summer Olympics: maximizing the long jump of Bryan Clay
Just because the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games are over doesn’t mean the enthusiasm students brought to school in August has to be. This installment of the NBC Learn/NSF videos series Science of the Summer Olympics—Maximizing the Long Jump of...
By admin
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In Memoriam: sadly, we report the passing of Irwin Slesnick, whose many contributions to NSTA and the broader realm of science education include the NSTA Press books Adventures in Paleontology and Clones, Cats, and Chemicals....
By NSTA Web Director