Congratulations to the 18 district winners selected in the seventh annual Shell Science Lab Challenge. Each district-winning school will receive a $3,000 prize package, including science lab equipment from Carolina Biological Supply Company. The winners found innovative ways to deliver quality lab experiences with limited resources and shared their ideas for a chance to win a science lab makeover valued at $20,000 Read more here.
Advocates are bracing for what may be massive cuts to federal education programs next year, and do you know what's in your state's Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan? This and more in the latest issue of the NSTA Legislative Update.
Don't miss the March issue of NSTA Reports: Learn how some districts are preparing science teachers to for high–need schools, as well as how some science museums are "popping up" before they even have a building and more.
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Selecting phenomena to motivate student sense making is the topic of a free web seminar, talking place on Wednesday,March 15 (6:30–8 p.m. Eastern Time). High school science teacher, Tricia Shelton, and NSTA's Ted Willard will present this first web seminar in a new series providing advice on implementing the NGSS or other three-dimensional science standards.
The final installment in Joe Krajcik's three-part series on disciplinary core ideas explores how core ideas develop in ways that become progressively more sophisticated as students use those ideas to make sense of phenomena or problems within and across the grade levels.
This website from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences features games, activities, stories, and lessons that encourage elementary and middle level students to learn about the environment.
The Senate Education Committee voted last week to approve new science standards for Idaho public schools that do not address the human impact on climate change. The vote essentially kicks the question of including climate change down the road a year, as lawmakers must permanently approve the science standards in 2018. Read the article featured in the Idaho Statesman.
The South Dakota bill has now died in the legislature, while the Indiana resolution has passed the senate. Resolutions are not subject to veto, so that vote is final. But in the intervening time, similar bills have appeared in three other states, and a fourth state is considering eliminating references to climate change in its teaching plan. Click here to read the article featured on the Ars Technica website.
100Kin10 published an open letter last week that reiterated the importance of their mission in a new political climate. The underrepresentation of women in STEM fields is one of the challenges 100Kin10 lists, along with the underrepresentation of minorities, dwindling enrollment in teacher-preparation programs for STEM, the high rate of STEM teachers who leave the profession, and the need for more early childhood STEM education. Read the article featured in Education Week Teacher.
Check out the Education News Roundup for a selection of the week's top education news stories.
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