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House and Senate Leaders Begin Work to Reconcile Education Bills to Replace No Child Left Behind
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By Jodi Peterson
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Team building is something that any sports team undertakes; business teams participate in; as well as other professional areas focus on. The purpose...
By Christine Royce
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By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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NSTA summer journals for K-12 teachers
Add these journals to your summer reading! The Science Teacher: Big Data...
By Mary Bigelow
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7 Science Facts #NSTA Learned on Twitter This Week
Twitter is a treasure trove for news. These tweets caught our eye at NSTA recently, and they could surely be useful conversation starters in the class...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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What are science teachers reading this summer?
Browse this month’s most popular books, e-books, children’s trade books, and journal articles on NSTA’s website. Between now and August ...
By Claire Reinburg
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Expanding understanding, resources for discussions about gender
Young children’s imaginative play often includes creating family groups with toy animals or dolls, and role-playing with housekeeping and dress-...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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A graphic organizer for writing
When I ask students to write about a topic, most try to submit a collection of copy-and-paste paragraphs. I’m looking for strategies to help student...
By Mary Bigelow
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Senate Passes Legislation to Overhaul No Child Left Behind
Fourteen years after it was first signed into law and seven years after it expired, the U.S. Senate passed legislation on Thursday, July 16 to overhau...
By Jodi Peterson
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Engineering Next Generation Science Leaders in Omaha, Nebraska
“Here we go” was a tweet from a delegate attending the 2015 National Congress on Science Education (NCSE), held last week in Omaha, Nebraska, by t...
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By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Finding out what students know and can do
I teach sixth grade science, and my students come from five district elementary schools and several private schools. Some schools emphasize science mo...
By Mary Bigelow
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K–5 and the Next Generation Science Standards—Webinars
The free webinars by National Science Teachers Association experts, Carla Zembal-Saul, Mary Starr, and Kathy Renfrew, will guide us to a deeper unde...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Summer weather events and patterns
If you haven’t been tracking weather events with the children in your summer and year-round programs, they are missing an opportunity to make observ...
By Peggy Ashbrook