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“Knowledge” — how to use the term to illustrate the “doing” of science
“Knowledge” has several meanings for its use with student learning! A definition of “Knowledge” is traditionally considered information to hel...
By Robert Yager
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I struggle with getting my biology students to prepare for assessments. What are your thoughts? — J., Arizona This is not an uncommon problem and ...
By Mary Bigelow
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President Obama Gives Shout Out to Computer Science and STEM in SOTU
In his last State of the Union address on January 12 President Obama called for schools to “offer every student the hands-on computer science and m...
By Jodi Peterson
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Students communicate their results
I am interested in strategies to help students write lab reports. I have gone over this at the beginning of the year and a few times in between. But s...
By Mary Bigelow
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Do you “Pin?” Early childhood preservice teachers on the NSTA Learning Center forums are recommending Pinterest as a source for lesson plans and ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Do You Have Adequate Time to Teach Science in Middle School?
“I have all the time I need to teach my science content and processes,” said no teacher, ever! When I was an elementary teacher, I often felt pres...
By Guest Blogger
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Planned, Purposeful Activities
My fifth grade students get excited about hands-on activities, but sometimes they use an activity as a reason to socialize or joke around. Sometimes t...
By Mary Bigelow
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A "Spring" in December
The unusually warm December weather has brought out flowers in some of the plants that usually bloom in Spring in m...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Ideas and info from NSTA’s December K-12 journals
The Science Teacher: Novel Science Tools...
By Mary Bigelow
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"Group" work in elementary science?
I’m a first year teacher, teaching third grade. In my undergraduate work and student teaching, I worked with math and reading groups, but not much w...
By Mary Bigelow
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The Science of Art by guest blogger Carrie Heflin
Welcome to guest blogger Carrie Heflin! Carrie was a pre-k classroom educator at the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center for four years. With everyday...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Education Gets $1.2 Billion Increase in FY16 Omnibus
Earlier this week the House Appropriations Committee released the FY 2016 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which provides for discretionary funding for t...
By Jodi Peterson
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Constructivist theory and its use in the Next Generation Science Standards
The people involved with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have indicated that they did not plan to “mess” with teaching goals, profes...
By Robert Yager
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[youtube]https://youtu.be/ThHYGzvrxZ0[/youtube] In this video, columnist Jared Mader shares information from the Science 2.0 column, “Did They Reall...
By sstuckey