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Archive: Book Beat Live! Uniting Scientific Discovery with Engineering Design: Discovery Engineering in Biology: Case Studies for Grades 6-12, September 21, 2022

A great number of the amazing innovations in modern society have resulted from someone making a careful observation, a mistake, or finding out new or different information from experimentation. These unique and serendipitous discoveries tell a story,...

Middle School High School Postsecondary Biology Engineering Life Science STEM

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Archive: NSTA/ASTE Archive: The Role of Instructional Materials in Science Teacher Education, November 17, 2022

Four presenters involved in equitable science instructional materials, policy, and professional development share their thoughts on current status and recommendations for the future of research, policy, and practice as we seek to reform science ...

Middle School Elementary High School Postsecondary General Science

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Archive: FA22: Are Your Lab SOPs in Place for a Safer School Year? October 3, 2022

As the 2022-2023 school year starts, it’s time to re-establish our STEM spaces (for the purposes of this web seminar, STEM spaces include a science lab, technology, and engineering lab [i.e., construction lab], makerspace, etc.) and make sure every...

Middle School Elementary High School Postsecondary Preschool General Science

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Archive: FA22: Lab Safety Considerations for Pre-Service Secondary Science/STEM Teachers, September 26, 2022

This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing secondary level safer science/STEM classroom/laboratory activities with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and, Director of ...

Middle School High School Postsecondary General Science

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Archive: FA22: Lab Safety Considerations for Pre-Service Elementary Science/STEM Teachers, September 19, 2022

This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing elementary level safer science/STEM classroom/laboratory activities with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and, Director of...

Elementary Postsecondary General Science

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Archive: Science Update: Earthquakes: What’s Shakin? September 15, 2022

Did you feel it? An earthquake is a shaking movement of the Earth’s Crust as stress overcomes friction. This web seminar will provide basic background to help attendees make sense of this natural phenomenon.  Earthquakes, what they are, w...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Computer Science Earth & Space Science Engineering Mathematics Technology

Journal Article

Science, Society, and Self

A formal pedagogical push emerged and later blossomed in designing integrated curriculum between STEM and non-STEM areas in secondary and higher education. A growing cadre of research identifies positive learning outcomes for students participating i...

By Marcus Aldredge, Sunghee Lee, and Josh Klein

Postsecondary Curriculum Inclusion STEM

Journal Article

Operationalizing the Duty of Care Through Rubrics

Laboratory experiments are a key aspect of science education. However, they do have risks, and accidents do happen. Science educators have a duty of care, which includes duty of instruction. One tool that can be leveraged for duty of instruction is c...

By Emily Faulconer

Postsecondary Labs Safety Teaching Strategies

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Archive Book Beat Live! Time to Get Ready for the Solar Eclipse Double-Header, August 17, 2022

NSTA’s two award-winning books, Solar Science: Exploring Sunspots, Seasons, Eclipses, and More, and When the Sun Goes Dark provide the perfect resources to help you and your students get ready for the next two solar eclipses coming to the U.S. ...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Astronomy Earth & Space Science Mathematics Physical Science

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