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| Challenging Our Brightest Middle School Thinkers | | How do you challenge the most persistent, passionate, and brightest middle school students to pursue careers in science and engineering? What about regular education and special education students? Science Scope field editor Patty McGinnis suggests science fairs and competitions. Read more . | |
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| Get the Inside Scoop on Our Milwaukee Conference with #NSTAchat | | Join us on Twitter Thursday, October 12, at 9 p.m. eastern time for the next #NSTAchat. Members of the committee will be chatting about NSTA's upcoming Milwaukee Conference on Science Education. Find out how to make the most of your trip, where you can score an #ONLYatNSTA tweet shirt, and when you can meet your favorite authors or NSTA leaders. | |
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| Safety Resources That Every Teacher Needs | | Kudos to the members of the NSTA Safety Advisory Board who continue to develop informative resources for teachers. Visit our safety portal for recent offerings, including guides on the use of personal protective equipment, alcohol, and safer eye protection practices, as well as grade–level safety acknowledgment forms. | |
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| Send Us Your Heartland Books and Get a Free E-Book in Return | | Have you opened your mail lately and found a package from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank that rejects the scientific consensus on climate change? If so, send us the unsolicited propaganda you received from the Heartland Institute and we will recycle it (or just email us a photo when you recycle) and in return you will receive free access to our popular e-book, Ocean's Effect on Weather and Climate. Learn more and access NSTA's vast resources on climate change here. | |
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| Sign Up to Learn More about the Shell Science Teaching Award | | Join us on Thursday, October 12, for a web seminar to learn how you can enter to win $10,000 for your outstanding work as a science educator. The program will feature presenter Gary Koppelman, chairperson of the Shell Science Teaching Award Judging Panel. Koppelman will discuss the application process for 2017–2018, share insight into completing your application, and provide tips for strengthening your submission for a chance to join the $10,000 club! | |
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| Read the Latest NSTA Reports Now | | Check your mailbox for the October issue of NSTA Reports! The latest issue looks at how students are learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts by crafting their own race cars— solar-powered; others made from food! Blick on Flicks reflects on the 30th anniversary of The Princess Bride and possible science discussion starters, Ms. Mentor offers advice on capitalizing on past experiences and more. You can also read the issue online in the NSTA Reports Archive. (You must be logged in as an NSTA member to access the archive.) | |
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| Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later | | Ten years ago, two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K–12 landscape in which few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. It was the early days of YouTube (then two years old), and it was getting cheap and easy to make and post videos, so the two teachers—Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams—proposed shifting lectures to videos students would watch at home, and asking students to come to class prepared to solve problems with their peers. It became known as the flipped classroom a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. Read the article featured in Ed Surge. |
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| Can Gamification Solve the STEM Talent Gap? | | The global movement to increase access to STEM educational opportunities, and ultimately increase the flow of talent into the pipeline for professions in the STEM field, is continuing to grow. Countries across the world are devoting resources and strategic thought to creating meaningful plans for implementation, which in some cases, means a total overhaul of how schools have traditionally approached science and mathematics education. Read the article featured in the Silicon Republic. |
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| | | AIAA Materials and Supplies Grants | | The American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Space Systems Technical Committee and Space Transportation Technical Committee are awarding $500 grants to elementary and secondary school teachers to help them purchase materials and supplies for enhancing STEM education. |
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| Sponsored by: Ask, Listen, Learn | | Ask, Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don't Mix | | Ask, Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don't Mix is a completely free and web-based program, designed for kids ages 9–12 and their educators and parents. The program takes a scientific approach to underage drinking prevention, with a series of seven lesson plans and animated videos that take kids on a journey through the developing brain. Each unit focuses on a specific part of the brain, teaching kids how the brain works, how alcohol affects each part, and how that can affect them. Program content regarding the effects of alcohol on the developing brain has been reviewed by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and is consistent with currently available science. The lessons support Common Core State, Next Generation Science, and National Health Education Standards. Visit AskListenLearn.org to begin using the lessons! | |
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