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Next Gen Navigator Makes Its Debut

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Next Gen Navigator Makes Its Debut

NSTA is all about supporting teachers in understanding and implementing three-dimensional instruction in their classrooms. The first edition of the Ne...

By Cindy Workosky

On the journey to NGSS, follow the path that works for you

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On the journey to NGSS, follow the path that works for you

Every teacher of science in a school in which NGSS is being implemented is engaged in a transition to standards that are very different from what they...

By Cindy Workosky

Permission to stumble on the road to successful implementation of NGSS

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Permission to stumble on the road to successful implementation of NGSS

So what’s the connection between growth mindset and NGSS? It begins with our own mindsets. We need to know that the implementation of NGSS will be h...

By Cindy Workosky

The Green Room: How Climate Change Affects Our Diet

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The Green Room: How Climate Change Affects Our Diet

Last year was the warmest year on record. Consequences of a warmer world include melting glaciers, rising sea levels, droughts, flooding, heat waves, ...

By sstuckey

Trump Releases “Skinny Budget” for FY2018

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Trump Releases “Skinny Budget” for FY2018

Administration’s Proposal Funds School Choice, Eliminates ESSA Title II and Afterschool Programs President Trump released his “skinny budge...

By Jodi Peterson

NSTA Books, eBooks+, and Journals win 2017’s highest honors in educational publishing – REVERE Awards

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NSTA Books, eBooks+, and Journals win 2017’s highest honors in educational publishing – REVERE Awards

The Association of American Publishers PreK–12 Learning Group has just announced 2017’s winners of the prestigious REVERE Awards, education publis...

By Claire Reinburg

Ed News: Girls Draw Even With Boys In High School STEM Classes

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Ed News: Girls Draw Even With Boys In High School STEM Classes

This week in education news, girls now make up about half the enrollment in high school STEM classes; new proposed California bill would exempt teach...

By Kate Falk

Ideas and inspiration from NSTA’s March 2017 K-12 journals

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Ideas and inspiration from NSTA’s March 2017 K-12 journals

Regardless of what grade level you teach, you the resources in this month’s journals can help make this summer’s eclipse a memorable occas...

By Mary Bigelow

Focus on Physics: Teaching Physics as the Rules of Nature

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Focus on Physics: Teaching Physics as the Rules of Nature

We all know that to enjoy a game, you must know the rules of the game. Likewise, to appreciate—and even comprehend—your environment, you must und...

By sstuckey

Science 2.0: Help Students Become Global Collaborators

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Science 2.0: Help Students Become Global Collaborators

One day Jared was teaching about the boiling points of common liquids. The year was 1999, and students had to take his word for it when he said those...

By sstuckey

Videographing with The PocketLab: Experimental Imagination Unplugged

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Videographing with The PocketLab: Experimental Imagination Unplugged

Imagine a little white box of about 30 cubic centimeters or a third of the size of a deck of cards. And only 23 grams. Now imagine that that little bo...

By Martin Horejsi

Setting personal and professional priorities

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Setting personal and professional priorities

I teach fifth and sixth grade science, and I’m finding it hard to balance teaching, grad school, and family responsibilities. Are there any secr...

By Mary Bigelow

Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing March 15 to Focus on STEM Education

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Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing March 15 to Focus on STEM Education

Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing March 15 to Focus on STEM Education...

By Jodi Peterson

Ed News: New Research Supports Women In STEM

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Ed News: New Research Supports Women In STEM

This week in education news, new research by the National Women’s Business Council supports women in STEM; David Berliner explains what is really h...

By Kate Falk

Building with blocks, building skills and memories

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Building with blocks, building skills and memories

I still have the wooden unit blocks that were central to many of my childhood play scenarios. The wooden blocks did not stick or snap together so we h...

By Peggy Ashbrook

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