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Scope on the Skies: Summer Skies (2009)
This summer the planet parade shifts to the morning skies as most of the visible planets are arranged over the southeastern to southwestern horizons b...
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Kyle Maynard’s book entitled No Excuses is an inspirational story that shows how a positive attitude can lead to great achievements, even when again...
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Managing Inquiry-Based Classrooms
Though it may seem that classroom management comes naturally to some teachers, upon closer examination you’ll probably discover that preparation and...
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Science Sampler: How to enjoy your students while your students enjoy science
Every teacher’s goal should be to create a classroom atmosphere where students know one another, feel safe both physically and emotionally, and enjo...
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Science Sampler: Teaching—A reflective process
In this article, the authors describe how they used formative assessments to ferret out possible misconceptions among middle-school students in a unit...
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Current Research: Summer Reading Suggestions
To supplement your summer reading, NSTA’s affiliates would like to suggest some recent articles on education research. These articles cover a variet...
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Classroom Management: Setting Up the Classroom for Learning
Student learning is directly related to classroom control established the first week of school (Wong and Wong 2001)—what you do the first day counts...
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Guest Editorial: Would you like to be a student in your classroom?
Why do some teachers experience successful teaching in the middle level year after year, while others consider an eighth-grade teaching assignment equ...
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Solar Paths: An International and Integrated Look at the Sun and Seasons
Some of the most difficult concepts for students to understand in Earth science are the ideas and explanations related to the Sun and seasons. The dai...
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Tech Trek: TeacherTube for Science
Following in the footsteps of YouTube, TeacherTube is a website where teachers can access a trove of videos that can be used in the classroom to impro...