JoinAll Blog Posts
Blog Post
Interactive eBook Introduces Young Readers to Beavers, Nature’s Furry Engineer
As a member of her local nature preserve, Katie Dunbar learned so much about the symbiotic relationship between animals and their environment. Take beavers, for example. The absence or presence of this one species has the ability to completely alter ...
By Carole Hayward
Blog Post
/sites/default/files/blog/2019/01/Sad_Trombone-Joe_Lamb-SoundBilbe.com_.mp3 ...
By Gabe Kraljevic
Blog Post
Plan Your #NSTA19 St. Louis Elementary Science Experience
The biggest science education conference of the year is happening in St. Louis this spring! Elementary teachers who want to be the student for a few days should join us. Here are 11 reasons why....
By Carole Hayward
Blog Post
The Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer: Listening to Plants (Part 2)
Continuing the story of the Vernier Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer, we will now apply its power it for a more traditional use; to inspect the transmission and absorption of fluid or a material suspended in a fluid. And that fluid can be...
By Martin Horejsi
Blog Post
Introduction: Pitsco’s Straw Rocket Launcher and its Getting Started Package gives students an introductory rocket activity where they can grasp a variety of subjects including force and motion, thrust, center of gravity, prediction, measureme...
By Edwin P. Christmann
Blog Post
Reflecting on the Flipped Classroom
Doug Stith uses a form of the flipped classroom he calls Learner-Paced Science with his sixth graders at Londonderry Middle School in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Older students serve as his assistants....
By Debra Shapiro
Blog Post
I am currently reading a book about childhood trauma in the classroom. How do we as teachers help students who have had a traumatic experience? — A., Iowa ...
By Gabe Kraljevic
Blog Post
Preparing Future Teachers to Put Investigation and Design at the Center of Their Classrooms
The recently released report Science and Engineering in Grades 6–12: Investigation and Design at the Center makes a strong statement right in the title: engaging students in scientific investigations and engineering design should be the core of wha...
By Cindy Workosky
Blog Post
Learn How to Build Community Partnerships at the 8th Annual STEM Forum & Expo
...
By Carole Hayward
Blog Post
Too cold? Observing animals in winter
With very cold weather settling into many areas, children’s outdoor time may be restricted due to temperature and wind chill limits set relative to the temperature ranges normally experienced in their area....
By Peggy Ashbrook
Blog Post
“Arguably, the most pressing challenge facing U.S. education is to provide all students with a fair opportunity to learn” (Framework; NRC 2012, p. 282). This challenge is of great importance as we continue to embrace changing demographics in our ...
By Carole Hayward
Blog Post
It’s too time-consuming… We haven’t been properly trained… Assessment is too difficult… Subject integrity may be relaxed… There are many reasons teachers find it challenging to make cross-curricular connections. But the benefits far outwe...
By Carole Hayward
Blog Post
Merriam-Webster has several definitions for phenomenon—among them are “an observable fact or event” and “an object or aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition.” And just as they find varied ways to look at the wor...
By Carole Hayward