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Astoria High School in Astoria, Oregon just became an experiment in the future of student computing. The tech company Google put an experimental lapto...
By Martin Horejsi
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A teacher's responsibilities
I will have a student teacher next semester. In addition to her leading my physical science classes, I’d like her to experience some other respo...
By Mary Bigelow
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The children whom I see once-a-week in an hour-long afternoon science enrichment class show growth in their exploration of building using ramps and bl...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Switching from cookbook labs to full inquiry
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By Mary Bigelow
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Chemistry Now, week 9: the chemistry of green
It’s so simple, it almost seems magical. Leaves take in sunlight, convert it to sugars and starches, and the plant feeds itself and becomes the ...
By admin
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An interesting example of 21st century technology
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFV9FDLrV0g[/youtube]...
By Martin Horejsi
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Teaching resources for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami
The devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan is on the minds of all of us, including our students. The event and aftermath is tragic and the contin...
By Eric Brunsell
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Graphing in early childhood classrooms
The two comments on an earlier post on Collecting Data were about graphing in early childhood classrooms. My curiosity got the better of me so I in...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Chemistry Now, week 8: cheeseburger chemistry: tomato
Tomatoes…fiery color and cool completeness How does a tomato go from green, marble-like sphere to juicy red brilliance? Chemistry, that’s ...
By admin
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High tech highlights: NSTA 2011
Here’s a taste of NSTA San Fran. More on this later, but many of the tech tools are open-ended allowing for student/teacher defined uses. Overal...
By Martin Horejsi
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Imagine—you submit a proposal for a session at the NSTA conference, and you’re ecstatic when it’s accepted. And then you learn that ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Putting the "teacher" in NSTA
Congratulations to all of the teacher-presenters at NSTA—to those who were willing to share their ideas and experiences. It’s a quantum le...
By Mary Bigelow
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The NSTA conference was featured in blogs from Edutopia:...
By Mary Bigelow
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NSTA Emeritus Executive Director Gerry Wheeler shared his thoughts on the challenges facing science education in the coming decade in the Robert H. Ka...
By Lynn Petrinjak