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The eCYBERMISSION STEM Competition Asks: What’s Your Volunteer Type?
“From my perspective as an advisor, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the interest and motivation eCYBERMISSION generates in my students. I use many of the website RESOURCES and videos to teach methods. The real learning comes from seeing a project...
By Korei Martin
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Over the course of a day, 350 million photos are uploaded to Facebook. 6,000 Tweets are sent each second, and young adults send or receive about 100 texts per day (hopefully not all of them during class time!). Together, this creates 2.5 quintillion...
By Guest Blogger
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Emory University freshman Alexa Dantzler maintains the temperature of a solution that, after reacting it with several chemicals, will allow her to determine how much calcium carbonate exists in an antacid tablet....
By Robert Yager
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Ideas from NSTA September K–12 journals
Science and Children: Engineering and Design...
By Mary Bigelow
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Positive parent communications
When I taught at the elementary level it was easy to communicate with the parents of 25 students. Now that I’m teaching science at the middle school, I’m overwhelmed by the thought of trying to communicate personally with more than 150 pa...
By Mary Bigelow
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In this video, columnists Ben Smith and Jared Mader share information from their Science 2.0 column, “Social Media Primer,” that appeared in a recent issue of The Science Teacher. Read the article here: http://bit.ly/1OY0772 [youtube]https://you...
By sstuckey
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The Vernier Go Wireless Link: A Bluetooth Broadcaster for your Sensors
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By Martin Horejsi
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Tweet All About It: Happening Now @NSTA
It’s been a busy week in the Twitterverse for the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). Our favorite shout-out came from Science Friday, promoting great science books for kids; we were delighted to see one of our readers’ favorite...
By Lauren Jonas, NSTA Assistant Executive Director
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Making Science Accessible in Multilingual Classrooms
Please welcome guest blogger Karen N. Nemeth, writing about making science learning accessible in multilingual classrooms. Karen N. Nemeth, Ed.M. is an author, consultant and presenter focusing on improving early childhood education for children who...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Nurture a love of learning in your science classroom
How can we cultivate a student’s (and a teacher’s!) natural love of learning and exploration amid so many demands in today’s schools? The recent article “When Success Leads to Failure” in The Atlantic by teacher–author Jessica Lahey drew ...
By Claire Reinburg
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Informal professional development
I teach in a private school that does not offer much in terms of professional development (PD), especially for science teachers. My colleagues and I would like to visit some science museums and centers. Would that count as PD? Do you have any other s...
By Mary Bigelow