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Ed News: Girls Draw Even With Boys In High School STEM Classes
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This week in education news, girls now make up about half the enrollment in high school STEM classes; new proposed California bill would exempt teachers from paying state income taxes; U.S. Education Secretary releases…
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Lab Incident at a Manhattan High School: Another Hard Safety Lesson to Learn
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On January 2, 2014, a chemistry lab safety incident involving a fire injured students at Beacon High School in Manhattan (NYC). An article in The New York Times reported that two students were burned as a result of a…
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The High School Teacher’s Guide to the #NSTA19 Area Conferences on Science Education
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What does a typical high school science teacher’s week look like? If you rolled your eyes and think that’s a trick question, you’re not alone! Typical, predictable, boring… those just aren’t words that describe your…
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Louisiana High School Science Teacher Receives 2024 Shell Science Teaching Award
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10 Reasons High School Teachers Should Join NSTA in St. Louis in April
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“I work at a school in a science department that needs a little bit of re-innovation. I am trying to invigorate my department and help connect them with ideas that will help our students shine!” High school teacher…
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Digging Deeper: Peeling Back the Practices: What Did High School Students Think?
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One of the big shifts in the NGSS is the integration of Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs) with Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs) and Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). In other words, content is not taught in isolation:…
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10 Sessions a High School Educator Needs to Attend at the STEM Forum & Expo
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At the 5th Annual STEM Forum & Expo, taking place on July 27-29 in Denver Colorado, high school educators can expect to learn more about environments that best facilitate effective STEM integration (both across…
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How PLCs Helped Move Us Toward Equitable High School Assessment Practices
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My colleagues and I began using units intentionally designed for the NGSS for biology in early 2017. We started with a high-quality unit evaluated by my colleagues on the Science Peer Review Panel, and eventually used a…
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What Does It Really Take to Get High School Students to Make Their Ideas Visible?
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Asking high school students to reveal what they really think about what causes a natural or designed phenomenon is risky business. Risky in that it requires students to take the intellectual and social risk of sharing…
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Alaska High School Science and Engineering Teacher Receives 2023 Shell Science Teaching Award
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More science in the early years—a reoccurring theme from high school teachers and researchers
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So it’s not just me, or you…An elementary school science specialist wrote to National Science Teacher Association colleagues asking middle and high school teachers which science skills and knowledge are typically seen…
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What Makes Them Tick? Middle School Data Science Explorations of Ticks and Lyme Disease
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Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge Regional Winners
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Congratulations to the Year 2 Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge Competition regional winners! Photos from the workshop held at the STEM Forum & Expo in San Francisco, July 2019 Testimonials from Year…
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The Science Teacher Editorial Board
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The Science Teacher is an award-winning, peer-reviewed, practitioners' journal for grade 9-12 teachers, university faculty responsible for teacher preparation, and state and district science supervisors and leaders. The…
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Shell Science Lab Challenge A Program of NSTA #EnergizeyourfuturewithShell The Shell Science Lab Challenge has ended. To learn about the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge, click here. Outfitted by Carolina Biological Supply Company The annual Shell Science Lab Challenge Competition recognized outstanding…
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