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What are the most successful experiments and activities to do with students when covering the human body? — K., West Virginia Here are a few of my f...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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Ed News: Summer Programs Increase STEM Learning Opportunities For Visually Impaired Students
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By Kate Falk
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StEMT: A New Process for Designing Meaningful STEM Lessons
A simple, practical, and methodological process for elementary and middle school teachers to implement meaningful STEM activities in the classroom tha...
By Carole Hayward
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Chemical Safety Training for Science Teachers
Academic science laboratories can be unsafe places for teaching and learning due to risks associated with biological, chemical, and physical hazards T...
By Kenneth Roy
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There’s More to Math than Drills
“As a teacher it frustrates me when drilling is proposed as the remedy to society’s mathematical struggles.” —Patrick Honn...
By Kate Falk
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I can see and appreciate how science is really an awesome subject. How can I make science more fun and exciting yet effective for my students? —D., ...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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Myths about Science, with an early childhood focus
The National Science Teachers Association website has a section for families titled, “Help Your Child Explore Science.” Here’s my adaptatio...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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You can’t believe everything you see in social media, but when something’s popular on Twitter/Facebook/Snapchat, it’s sure to be so...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Ideas and inspiration from NSTA’s August 2018 K-12 journals
The August issues are ready for back-to-school! Regardless of what grade level or subject you teach, as you skim through the article titles, you may f...
By Mary Bigelow
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First-Graders Modeling Day and Night: Making Sense of a Phenomenon
As a first-grade teacher in Detroit with predominantly Latinx students and English language learners, I worked for several weeks at the end of last sc...
By Cindy Workosky
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Recently, my colleagues and I had an exchange with some teachers in one of our professional development programs. One teacher said, “I think I do a ...
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Modeling in Science Instruction
With the shift toward three-dimensional teaching and learning that the Next Generation Science Standards requires, the Crosscutting Concept of Modelin...
By Cindy Workosky
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Ed News: New Girl Scout STEM Badges & Back-to-School Spending Hits $82 Billion
This week in education news, the Girl Scouts have added 30 new badges in STEM to encourage more female involvement; back-to-school spending will hit ...
By Kate Falk
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Freeze! We're doing science!
I have accumulated a large number of the freezer gel packs from a meal service. I’d like to find a way to use them in a classroom activity. —P...
By Gabe Kraljevic