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How can I teach science when my school only allots 15-20 minutes per day to teach it? This usually comes at the end of the day when students are worn ...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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Ed News: Got STEM Funding? Here’s How To Use It
This week in education news, Pennsylvania needs to get serious about STEM education; personalized learning has broad appeal, but may be more revoluti...
By Kate Falk
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Summertime, and the livin’ is…
I am looking for recommendations on how to spend my summer preparing to implement the science program our school district adopted. —C., Illinois Wit...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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Introduction The Go Direct Respiration Belt measures human respiration rate. While using the Go Direct Respiration Belt, you can measure human breathi...
By Edwin P. Christmann
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Incorporating art into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has been a natural consequence for many teachers; for others, a more d...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Science centers—effective and engaging
While handling and examining objects from nature, such as sea shells, pinecones, rocks, and plant leaves, children may encounter patterns and experien...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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For the STEAM Fair at Doane Academy in Burlington, New Jersey, upper-school students “complete projects in any field as long as they [relate] in som...
By Debra Shapiro
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What Does 3-Dimensional Space Look Like
When transitioning my classroom instruction to three dimensional learning, I decided to start with one or two areas in each unit or lesson set where I...
By Korei Martin
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Digital Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom: When is a child ready?
Guest blogger Carrie Lynne Draper shares resources and discusses the use of digital technology in early childhood programs....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Global Thinking Inside and Outside the Classroom
Dynamic Equilibrium. These two words represent what is essential in teaching Earth science: the idea that forces are constantly working against one an...
By Cindy Workosky
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Cereal to Stream Tables: Putting Stability and Change in Students’ Hands
Stability and Change is one of the seven Crosscutting Concepts (CCs) that can be difficult to convey in a lesson. Other CCs like Patterns, Cause and E...
By Cindy Workosky
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Meet the 2018 NSTA/ NCTM STEM Teacher Ambassadors!
We are proud to be working with 2018 NSTA/NCTM STEM Teacher Ambassadors, who are here at NSTA’s headquarters this week participating in an intensive...
By Korei Martin
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Within 20 Years, These 8 Inventions Could Become Reality
Imagine if you were asked what technology would look like in two decades. Through our ExploraVision science competition, that very same question has ...
By Korei Martin