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  • Eye Protection and Safer Practices FAQ

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    Eye Protection and Safer Practices FAQ What is My Obligation? Science teachers are obligated to provide students with the safest and most appropriate eye protection for the task that they are being asked to perform. School boards as the employer are required to purchase and teachers as employees to…

  • Other Health Impairments

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    Other Health Impairments According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004, a student can qualify for special education services under the coding of “Other Health Impairment” (OHI), defined as “having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness…

  • Personal Protective Equipment

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    Personal Protective Equipment Personal protective equipment (PPE) includes safely designed and constructed garments or equipment, such as clothing, gloves, protective hearing devices, shoes, or goggles, designed to protect a person's body from injury or infection by minimizing exposure to workplace…

  • Sequencing Matters: How to Promote Long-Lasting Understanding of Physical Science for Middle Schoolers

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    Beginner, as well as veteran, middle school science educators will find what they need to reimagine the teaching of physical science in Patrick Brown’s new NSTA Press book Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 6-8:…

  • STEMcoding project releases "Physics of Video Games" Hour of Code activity

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    Until recently, the world’s most popular K12 computer science website, hourofcode.com, did not have any physics-focused coding activities. This was the case until Professor Chris Orban of Ohio State University…

  • Kindergarten 5E Physical Science Investigation: Scientific conversations from what’s in your cupboard

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    Welcome to guest blogger Emily Townsend! Emily has been teaching for a decade to students of all ages, kindergarten to adult. She has a love of language that was born through her first year teaching abroad in…

  • Two New NSTA Books Make It Fun and Easy to Engage Students in Physical Science

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    Teachers: We know that your instructional hours are short but that your list of teaching priorities is long. If you are seeking convenient, time-saving, and easy-to-use formative assessment tools (for grades 3-12…

  • How Do NASCAR Race Car Tires Take the Heat? (Part 1: Physical Changes)

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  • Communication Disorders

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    Communication Disorders Communication Disorders involve a wide variety of problems in speech, language, and hearing. For example, speech and language disorders include stuttering, aphasia, dysfluency, voice disorders (hoarseness, breathiness, or sudden breaks in loudness or pitch), cleft lip and/or…

  • Calendar

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    Calendar December 2024Tuesday, Dec. 24Registration Open • NSTA National Conference in PhiladelphiaHousing Registration Open • NSTA National Conference in PhiladelphiaApplications Open • Reservations of Exhibitor Workshops, NSTA National Conferences in Philadelphia and MinneapolisApplications and Nominations Open • NSTA…

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