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Find support and share resources at the Learning Center
As I was packing up materials and readying the classrooms for summer storage I reflected back over the year and thought about the next. Developing an ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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On the train, returning from a busy day in Philadelphia and the annual ISTE conference (International Society for Technology in Education), I finally ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Chemistry Now, week 16: biotoxins
What can be a poison in one form can be therapeutic in another, which begins to explain why researchers would look to the biotoxins produced by warm ...
By admin
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Preparation for the future….
“Ways you promote college preparedness and career readiness skills in your science classroom.” is the topic for this blog….while we always h...
By Christine Royce
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Va-cation, stay-cation, and edu-cation
But you only work 9 months a year! How many times do teachers hear that? Those who make that comment obviously have never been a teacher or a family m...
By Mary Bigelow
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Chemistry Now, week 14: flower color
In a sea of green vegetation, you’ll find reds, yellows, oranges, blues, and purples—a beautiful range of colors that pop out, saying to insec...
By admin
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I teach seventh grade science and am currently putting together my wish list for next year. I’m looking for information on data collection devic...
By Mary Bigelow
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NSTA Press author Bill Robertson has extended his popular Stop Faking It! series with the new teacher resource Companion Classroom Activities for Stop...
By Claire Reinburg
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1st and 2nd grade students collecting and analyzing data, 7th graders too!
Collecting and analyzing data follows observational steps in science inquiry. To get inspired about expanding your students’ science experiences, re...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I recently graduated from a teaching program with a biology certification. With the current economic situation, I’m not sure I’ll get a fu...
By Mary Bigelow
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Last weekend, I did volunteer work at a county park nature center. Many people were taking advantage of the beautiful weather: walking the trails, bir...
By Mary Bigelow
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Cell phones and cancer? A modern science debate
Do cell phones cause cancer? Those five words have been floating around for over a decade, but only recently has it caught the attention of mainstream...
By Martin Horejsi
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“Though wholly fabricated from such common raw materials as coal, water and air, nylon can be fashioned into filaments as strong as steel, as fi...
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"Distractions" in the classroom
I’m having some classroom management problems in my middle school science classes. I think the classroom itself provides many distractions and c...
By Mary Bigelow
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A wise professor once told us, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, pretty soon everything starts to look like a nail.” My takeaway fro...
By Mary Bigelow