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Missouri Science Teachers: NSTA Is Coming to You This April

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Missouri Science Teachers: NSTA Is Coming to You This April

If you’re a Missouri science teacher, you’ve probably been to the Missouri Botanical Garden, most likely as a chaperone. But when you join NSTA for our 2019 National Conference in St. Louis this April, you’ll get a completely different experien...

By Carole Hayward

Dreaming of spring and preparing to garden with young children

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Dreaming of spring and preparing to garden with young children

Before the weather really warms up in your area, take children for a nature walk and together document through drawing or p...

By Peggy Ashbrook

E-book Invites Young Readers to Discover How a Fish Fossil Exists in an Egyptian Desert

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E-book Invites Young Readers to Discover How a Fish Fossil Exists in an Egyptian Desert

After devoting 25 years to the teaching profession, Mary Hanson was seeking “out of the box professional development opportunities.”...

By Carole Hayward

Supporting Classroom Implementation of Investigations and Design for All Students

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Supporting Classroom Implementation of Investigations and Design for All Students

Previous blogs on this series have focused on describing the Science and Engineering for Grades 6-12: Investigation and Design at the Center report’s conclusions and recommendations on the importance and role of investigation and engineering design...

By Kate Falk

Engaging in Authentic Research

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Engaging in Authentic Research

High school students participating in Rutgers University’s Waksman Student Scholars Program spend a year conducting research projects in molecular biology and bioinformatics–the computational analysis of biological data&#821...

By Debra Shapiro

Why We Shouldn’t Keep "Bugs" in a Drawer

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Why We Shouldn’t Keep "Bugs" in a Drawer

Guest blogger Monica Dolan is the STEM Curriculum Coordinator at The Children’s Center at CalTech where she works as a liaison between the administration and the teaching staff to ensure curriculum plans are consistent with the center’s conceptu...

By Peggy Ashbrook

Preventing Science Laboratory Fires

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Preventing Science Laboratory Fires

Most science and STEM laboratories contain chemicals and electrical wiring that could cause smoke or fires. For this reason, the National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA 45 (section 6.3) standard, in accordance with NFPA 10, requires portable fi...

By Kenneth Roy

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Engineering in early childhood continues

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Engineering in early childhood continues

Engineering was celebrated last week but it continues to happen spontaneously, and with teachers’ support, in early childhood settings. Engineering happens when young children try to solve a problem by designing and testing a solution....

By Peggy Ashbrook

Using Social Media and Technology to Encourage Students’ Evidence-Based Discussions

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Using Social Media and Technology to Encourage Students’ Evidence-Based Discussions

Teachers often aspire to help their students become more involved in a community of practice. In my classroom, members of the community are my students, as well as students in other classrooms and professional scientists. In this blog post, I will sh...

By Cindy Workosky

How Teachers Can Use Technology to Support 3-D Teaching and Learning

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How Teachers Can Use Technology to Support 3-D Teaching and Learning

Three-dimensional (3-D) teaching and learning integrates the use of science practices, crosscutting concepts, and core science ideas to help students make sense of the world. From a teaching perspective, learning progressions promote the use of scien...

By Cindy Workosky

Using Collaborative Educational Technology Tools in Science

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Using Collaborative Educational Technology Tools in Science

Science literacy is critical for our students. We need them to understand why it is important for them to do activities, such as composting. In fifth grade, one of the goals for students is to obtain information about, evaluate, and communicate how i...

By Cindy Workosky

What's My Motivation?

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What's My Motivation?

How do I motivate students who don’t want to do anything at all? — B., Utah If you ever solve this, you’ll be up for a Nobel Prize!...

By Gabe Kraljevic

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