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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 find ideas for lessons that would be interesting your students or the inspiration to adapt/create/sha...
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 school year with a doctoral candidate in science education and former elementary teacher, Christa Have...
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 lot of modeling in my class. I have my kids draw pictures of the science ideas they are learning all...
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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 Modeling has become a major focus of my instruction. I use a process that involves revisiting the sam...
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 $82.8 billion for K-12 and college combined, and more teachers are digging into their wallets; and m...
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., Georgia The best thing about these freezer packs is that they provide a constant that will help ...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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Moving water involves using the practices of science and engineering
Sometimes the discovery of materials on a play area inspires children’s exploration and use of the NGS...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Do you have any advice for creating bottle ecosystems with my seventh grade class? I would like them to do two-tier systems with terrestrial and aquatic organisms. —S., Missouri...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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CTE Bill Signed & Making STEM a Priority in FY2020
President Trump Signs Career and Technical Education Bill Congress finally passed, and President Trump signed into law, a reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act on Tuesday, July 31....
By Jodi Peterson
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Fire Air Dephlogisticated and the Vernier Go Direct Wireless Oxygen Sensor
Oxygen is one of those very cool elements that can both save a life and kill whether in absence or abundance. Oxygen is necessary for life as we know it, but yet it oxidizes one of the most common elements in the universe. Oxygen, to most students, i...
By Martin Horejsi
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Science and Children: an August issue?!!!
Did you know that there is an August issue of Science and Children? Yes!!!! (fist pump, happy dance, big smile)....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Camp has a culture that is different from school, partly due to the season and partly due to the temporary relationships as campers and teachers are together for shorter lengths of time. As the teacher of an “Art Lab” camp class for children in K...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Ed News: Science Centers Play Role In Boosting Children’s Interest In STEM Fields
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By Kate Falk
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What are some of the best practices for teaching science vocabulary? —D., Florida Science has a language unto itself; it is not surprising that many students struggle with vocabulary much like English language learners (ELLs). Because of this, I us...
By Gabe Kraljevic