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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 Aristotle put forth in his work Meteorologica were in error, the depth and breath of his observations and ...
By Martin Horejsi
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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 others without them. Photo courtesy Janet Sweat....
By Debra Shapiro
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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 Science 2017. This year, March for Science (MfS) 2018 is scheduled for April 14 (find out more here). ...
By David Evans, NSTA Executive Director
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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 their classroom. District II None awarded District IV James Brown Science Teacher Sand Creek Middl...
By NSTA Web Director
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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. Whether or not you attended the 2018 NSTA national conference you can access files uploaded by pres...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Ed News: Federal STEM Education Programs Lack Coordination, Watchdog Finds
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By Kate Falk
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“It Gets Easier”: A Teacher’s Notes from the NGSS Trenches
It gets easier....
By Korei Martin
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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
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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 had to submit lesson plans for the week. I have to catch up on grading as the quarter comes to a close...
By Korei Martin
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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 to sign the bill into law, ending the threat of another government shutdown. The news is goo...
By Jodi Peterson
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Breakerspaces are areas where students demolish, repurpose, fix, or disassemble appliances, electronics, toys, and other devices to learn how they work, what components were used to create them, and how they were designed. Like any type of ...
By Kenneth Roy
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Ed News: Want More Girls In Science Fields? Check The Images On Your Classroom Walls
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By Kate Falk
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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 same year Galileo died. And it is that 1642 date that is often used as a convenient moment in time to...
By Martin Horejsi