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Our department chair is encouraging us to add comments to student writing assignments. This sounds time-consuming; I have more than 100 students in my Earth science classes. Would students even read my comments on lab reports or term papers? —S...
By Mary Bigelow
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Young children using microscopes to see more
Hypolimnas misippus butterfly head photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Science teaching awards for 2011-2012 [Updated]
Calling all full time pre-kindergarten through second grade teachers! (Tell your upper elementary colleagues too.) Win an award for your innovative science inquiry program through the National Science Teacher Association that will put some cash in yo...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Important lessons learned from a teacher
After reading the moving NPR story of a neurosurgeon who thanked his high school science teacher, investigative reporter Steve Silberman began to imagine all the other stories out there of a teacher’s influence on prominent writers, teachers, and s...
By Claire Reinburg
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My middle school students this year are very scatterbrained. It seems to take forever for them to get focused at the beginning of class and to find the materials they need when I ask for them during class. When it’s time to get into groups for ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Treating the economy with STEM students
Treating the economy with STEM students By Shiv Gaglani...
By Christine Royce
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What is in motion in your classroom, in addition to children?...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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It’s almost October and it’s time to celebrate science. Get ready for Earth Science Week this year (October 9–15, 2011)....
By Mary Bigelow
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It all started with the zebrafish…
photo by Elizabeth Zimmermann, Mayo Clinic Public Affairs Students in Roc...
By Debra Shapiro
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Professional Learning Communities and You!
The question for this issue of the Leaders Letter focused around professional learning communities people are involved in as well as the benefits that each person has received. In Professional Learning Communities for Science Teaching the definitio...
By Christine Royce
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I’ve recently been asked to mentor a new teacher in the science department. I’ve never had this role before. I want to help her, but I don’t want to be too intrusive or judgmental. What should I do? —Erica, Abilene, Texas...
By Mary Bigelow