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Featured speaker Larry Lowery’s lively presentation at the San Francisco NSTA conference highlighted research findings about how children learn ...
By Claire Reinburg
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Scorpions, free materials, and more
One thing about attending a NSTA conference, you get to try local cuisine, as well as an occasional unusual treat. I just spoke to this teacher from P...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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It's not just teachers…part 2
In addition to science educators, you also run into some interesting characters… Some attendees have more than two legs...
By Mary Bigelow
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NSTA—it's not just teachers!
The name may be National Science Teachers Association, but our members—and conference presenters—are involved at all levels of education. ...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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A sloth is just one of the unexpected sights in the NSTA exhibit hall!...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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I had an email from a former colleague who said that the conference must be a science teacher’s paradise. She’s right. Where else can you...
By Mary Bigelow
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More of what attendees are saying
I have talked to conference attendees and presenters who have come to San Francisco from all over the country. California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, West ...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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It’s not quite 7 a.m. here in San Francisco, but it looks like a number of people are getting an early start. When I arrived at the conference c...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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I went to a session this morning for conference first-timers, as a veteran conference-attender. NSTA staff and office holders welcomed the “ne...
By Mary Bigelow
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A panel discussion on the Next Generation of Science Education Standards with NSTA executive director Francis Eberle; Helen Quinn, chair of the board ...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Talking about science education
It’s been a busy morning at the national conference. Although the exhibit hall didn’t open until 10 a.m., many sessions started much earlier. ...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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I just had the honor of being a guest at the NSELA breakfast—a star-studded event if I ever saw one in the science education community!...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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I’m finding it hard to believe that it was 25 years ago that I attended my first NSTA conference—here in San Francisco. I remember going h...
By Mary Bigelow
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Should science be taught in a Spanish immersion class?
You never know who you might meet in the airport. Another NSTA staffer and I were waiting for our flight at Dulles and discussing our plans to put our...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Here’s a question for you, to help me understand the way science activities and science inquiry are developed in early childhood classrooms....
By Peggy Ashbrook