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The Pasco Wireless Weather Station: Like having your own weather satellite

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The Pasco Wireless Weather Station: Like having your own weather satellite

For almost 2000 years, Aristotle’s ideas about weather were the industry standard. Although our hindsight confirmed that many of the theories Aristo...

By Martin Horejsi

Building STEM Knowledge in a Breakerspace

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Building STEM Knowledge in a Breakerspace

Janet Sweat’s middle school students in Lake City, Florida, disassembled broken toys to create cars, some that would run with remote controls and o...

By Debra Shapiro

Coming to a City near You—March for Science 2018

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Coming to a City near You—March for Science 2018

About this time last year NSTA and many of our teachers joined millions in the streets of Washington, DC and in cities nationwide for the March for Sc...

By David Evans, NSTA Executive Director

Robert E. Yager Exemplary Teaching Award—2018 winners

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Robert E. Yager Exemplary Teaching Award—2018 winners

The Robert E. Yager Exemplary Teaching Award recognizes six full-time K–12 teachers of science who successfully use innovation and excellence in...

By NSTA Web Director

See photos and get resources from NSTA 2018 Atlanta

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See photos and get resources from NSTA 2018 Atlanta

I feel recharged and activated after attending a conference and taking a few weeks to reflect and prepare to put the new understandings into practice....

By Peggy Ashbrook

“It Gets Easier”: A Teacher’s Notes from the NGSS Trenches

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“It Gets Easier”: A Teacher’s Notes from the NGSS Trenches

It gets easier....

By Korei Martin

Is "instant snow" a good model for actual snow?

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Is "instant snow" a good model for actual snow?

Children often use ordinary objects to represent other objects—a block might become a phone, or a rock might become a cookie, during their play....

By Peggy Ashbrook

What Are Conferences For?

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What Are Conferences For?

I’m exhausted. I just got back from a whirlwind NSTA ed-venture. I had to check to see what the students covered with the SUB while I was gone, I ha...

By Korei Martin

Congress Agrees to Final FY18 Spending Package

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Congress Agrees to Final FY18 Spending Package

This week both the House and Senate have <finally> passed legislation on federal funding for fiscal year 2018, and President Trump is expected t...

By Jodi Peterson

Safer Breakerspaces

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Safer Breakerspaces

  Breakerspaces are areas where students demolish, repurpose, fix, or disassemble appliances, electronics, toys, and other devices to learn ho...

By Kenneth Roy

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The Vernier Go Direct Radiation Monitor: Well Worth the 90-Year Wait

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The Vernier Go Direct Radiation Monitor: Well Worth the 90-Year Wait

Stephen Hawking died recently marking 2018 as another date in science history from which events will be measured. Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the s...

By Martin Horejsi

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