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Where Can I Find Professional Development Opportunities and Resources for Science Teachers?
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By Carole Hayward
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I really want to stop “giving” notes to students because it doesn’t seem like a good use of class time. They use tablets, so they can find facts easily, but I want students to actually manipulate the content and think about it. But ...
By Mary Bigelow
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A Picture Perfect Approach to Connecting Reading Strategies and Science
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By Guest Blogger
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NGSS@NSTA Hub: Your One-Stop Source for Next Generation Science Standards Information
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By Carole Hayward
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Ideas for must-have strategies
I’m mentoring two new science teachers this year, and I want to focus on must-have strategies and effective practices for science. I’m sure they will have their own needs, but, based on your experience, what would be important to include ...
By Mary Bigelow
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One of the perks of being an NSTA member is having access to all of the journals online. Regardless of the grade level you teach, the journals have ideas that can be used, adapted, or extended for different levels of student interest and experience. ...
By Mary Bigelow
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Breaking Down Walls at the 2014 National Congress on Science Education
If you were with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) in Washington, D.C. last week, you would have been part of the most exciting and productive Congress of the year!...
By Juliana Texley
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Science of Golf: course set up
I have a love-hate relationship with golf. Growing up on a midwestern farm, “green” was spring and summer. Today, “green” has very different meanings. Do I want to land my approach shot onto a perfect one? Sure I do (not that it happens all t...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) offers a growing collection of resources around the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)....
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Professional Development Options
I was recently appointed K-12 science department chairperson. Our professional development budget is slim, but I’d like to do something other than the generic “sit-and-git” presentations we’ve had in the past. I’ve heard about u...
By Mary Bigelow
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This golfer is waiting for the green to clear....
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Are Your Lab Investigations Argument Driven?
The 27 lab investigations in the new NSTA Press book Argument-Driven Inquiry in Biology: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 follow the argument-driven inquiry (ADI) instruction model, which consists...
By Carole Hayward
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Science of Golf: Newton’s Third
Male, female, young, old … physical workouts can be as important to low scores as club and ball design—just ask Rickie Fowler, Belen Mozo, 78-year-old Gary Player, or my college-golfer (and budding engineer) daughter who works out with an ex-NFL ...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Science of Golf: collisions and compressions
Self-taught, long-ball hitter Bubba Watson gets a greater payoff from the collision between the driver and the ball than most anyone on tour. Find out what happens during those 500 microseconds in Science of Golf: Energy in Collisions and Compression...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Count on These Science Stories to Engage Your Students
“Our students should be able to at least reason quantitatively: to read and interpret data, graphs, and statistics....
By Carole Hayward
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At the end of the year, my principal mentioned—again—that he wanted Honors Biology to be the “hardest” ninth grade course. I have tried explaining and showing that my Honors students are having different, more thought-provokin...
By Mary Bigelow
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Ken Roy, NSTA Chief Science Safety Compliance Consultant and NSTA Safety Advisory Board Contact, has some comments based on the issue of a substitute leaving a science lab unattended, a situation described in a previous blog entry:...
By Mary Bigelow
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Living near Tampa—the so-called “lightning capital”—and having a college-golfer (and budding engineer) daughter who plays daily, I’m always a bit jittery about localized storms that pop up regularly here during the summer. With a 60% chance...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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Lemonade Stands and Summer Activity Resources
Thanks to a teacher who was moving and in a new job, I received boxes of resources from Zoobooks to CESI publications to posters that will interest children and convey concepts today as well as they did 30 years ago—sorting by an attribute and meas...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Science of Golf: Newton 1 & 2
From 0 to 175 mph in a fraction of a second, today’s top golfers can turn a golf ball into one of the fastest projectiles in sports. Science of Golf: Newton’s First and Second Laws of Motion showcases the insights of Suzann Pettersen, a p...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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NSTA’s K-College Science Education Journals: July 2014 Issues Online
Science teachers get a break from lesson planning this month, so it’s a nice time to ponder other questions: What informal science experiences are valuable for elementary students? Can middle school students discuss whether or not we are alone ...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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The set of Laser Blox classroom lasers that I received for review contained:...
By Ken Roberts
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Think of it as a linear particle accelerator, but instead of atoms, golf balls are propelled at speeds up to 200 miles per hour through a corridor that is 70 feet long and banked with infrared sensors. That’s the tool the United States Golf Associa...
By Judy Elgin Jensen
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What About Lecturing? Recent Study States Not As Effective
“To lecture or not to lecture” – that seems to be the question that has received much attention in recent years. It is similar to topics such as the positive/negative effects of drinking red wine, eating chocolate or eggs in that the pendulum...
By Christine Royce
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But Why Does the Balloon Stick to the Wall After I Rub It on My Hair?
What types of materials can be electrically charged? How does current flow in a circuit? Will a magnet pick up any kind of metal?...
By Carole Hayward
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Literacy and science: Writing and communicating
This is a continuation of a question about Literacy and science: Reading and comprehension. The question dealt with incorporating literacy practices and activities into science instruction and the role of the science teacher in doing so....
By Mary Bigelow
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eCYBERMISSION 2014: Standout STEM Students Succeed
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) congratulates the national winners of the 12th annual eCYBERMISSION competition, which NSTA administered for the U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program....
By Guest Blogger
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Children play year-round but some media for play is more easily used in summer. Some recent play that I’ve observed: Observing the motion of wood chip mulch as it is shaken back and forth on a spring rider. ...
By Peggy Ashbrook