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Bridging the Outdoors with Science Education, ELA, Art, and Historical Perspectives...
By Mary Bigelow
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Improving Your Students' Graphing and Graph Interpretation Practices...
By Mary Bigelow
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Ellis Island...Science and Immigration Policy...
By Mary Bigelow
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Creating tomorrow's STEM workforce
Katherine Johnson helped pave the way for women and African Americans in technical fields...
By Debra Shapiro
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Full disclosure–NSTA got me hooked on the CSI programs. Ordinarily I would have ignored them, but when I heard that these shows excite students about science, I had to see at least one episode. Eventually I was watching all of them regularly. (...
By Debra Shapiro
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The NSTA Store has a corner where we can meet the authors of current and popular books. Steve Rich was here today to sign copies of his latest book Outdoor Science: A Practical Guide....
By Mary Bigelow
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I headed over to the exhibit hall just before it opened. I was surprised to see so many eager educators waiting for the doors to open, even on the third day! Since they had still had a few minutes before the doors opened, I was able to talk to a few...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Rest? Not much, even on the weekend
Some NSTA attendees take a few minutes to rest their feet....
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Hughes High School, a STEM-focused school in Cincinnati, has an intersession which students devote to their projects. As luck would have it this year, the intersession is the same week as the NSTA conference in Philadelphia. Kathy Wright, a program f...
By Mary Bigelow
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ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education) sponsored a series of seven sessions (spread out over two days) presented by two of the most dynamic educators I’ve ever met: Ben Smith and Jared Mader of the Red Lion School District...
By Mary Bigelow
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Diana Hunn and Susan Clay Due to technical difficulties, I arrived late to Diana Hunn’s and Susan Clay’s session on Using Humor to Enhance Scientific Literacy. Fortunately, they are good humored about late arrivals....
By Debra Shapiro
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Science talk in Philadelphia at the NSTA national conference
Science talk between students (not teacher-to-student)—is that possible?...
By Peggy Ashbrook