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Interesting activity in the various pockets and corners of our far-flung association. Click on a headline to read the entire post.

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Latest from NSTA’s online outposts

By Howard Wahlberg | Published: May 31, 2010

What’s New for May 31 on NSTA’s various online outposts Happy Memorial Day! Many of you are wanting to download the resources from the conference in Philadelphia. Here’s how. Highlights of stimulating conversations taking place right now on our listservs: Biology—discussion of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, alcohol experiments, and college admissions; Chemistry—big [...]

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Deadline extended for NSTA New Science Teacher Academy

By Howard Wahlberg | Published: May 26, 2010

The deadline to submit applications for the 2010 NSTA New Science Teacher Academy has been extended to June 21, 2010. Science teachers located throughout the country, who will be entering their second or third year of teaching and whose schedule is a minimum of 51 percent middle or high school science, are encouraged to apply. [...]

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What’s new for May 24 on NSTA’s various online outposts

By Howard Wahlberg | Published: May 24, 2010

Many of you are wanting to download the resources from the conference in Philadelphia. Here’s how. Highlights of stimulating conversations taking place right now on our listservs: Chemistry—iron titration, how to deal with dangerous chemicals, and what incoming freshman need to know; Earth Science—Friday, May 28th, being celebrated as the 2,595th “birthday of science,” and [...]

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Latest from NSTA’s online outposts

By Howard Wahlberg | Published: May 17, 2010

What’s New for May 17 on NSTA’s various online outposts Many of you are wanting to download the resources from the conference in Philadelphia. Here’s how. Highlights of stimulating conversations taking place right now on our listservs: Chemistry—STD simulations, designing lab space, and electrochemistry questions; Biology—more about Amish Friendship Bread and a Biologist’s Mother’s Day [...]

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Latest from NSTA’s online outposts

By Howard Wahlberg | Published: May 4, 2010

What’s New for May on NSTA’s various online outposts Many of you are wanting to download the resources from the conference in Philadelphia. Here’s how. On our listservs, flood relief efforts for a school in Tennessee are being arranged on our Chemistry list, and the brain and our senses is being discussed in the General [...]

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Monthly features

By Mary Bigelow | Published: March 28, 2010

As an NSTA member, did you know that you have electronic access to each of the journals, in addition to the print copy you receive? In the monthly SciLinks blog for each issue (and on the NSTA home page, there are links to browse the table of contents of the three K–12 journals. (And you [...]

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Recent activity on NSTA’s various online outposts

By Howard Wahlberg | Published: March 15, 2010

Tweet-up in Philadelphia! Join your fellow Listserv users, Facebookers, Tweeters, and LinkedIn’ers, and online Community users on Wednesday evening at the Brew Pub adjacent to Reading Terminal, 1150 Filbert St., for a (at your own expense) face-to-face gathering of your fellow science education colleagues! NO RSVP required! Ask for Howard Wahlberg or Daryl Taylor. On [...]

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Latest from NSTA’s online outposts

By Howard Wahlberg | Published: March 10, 2010

Recent Activity on NSTA’s various online outposts On our listservs, there are great conversations about moldy cats (yes, that’s right, moldy cats) on our Biology list,  engineering and Newton’s laws on our General Science list, class size on our Physics list, and whether or not poop is a living thing or not on our Elementary [...]

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Latest from NSTA’s online outposts

By Howard Wahlberg | Published: February 24, 2010

What’s New, 2/22/2010 On our listservs, there are great conversations about meiosis and fruit flies on our Biology list, reaction rates on our Chemistry list, teaching seasons and stars on our Earth Science list, density on our General Science list, and toilets (yes, you read that correctly) on our Physics list. In the NSTA online [...]

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Latest from NSTA’s online outposts

By Howard Wahlberg | Published: February 2, 2010

What’s New, 2/1/2010 Here’s a quick look (with lots of links!) at what’s going on at NSTA’s online outposts: In the NSTA online professional learning communities, we have new groups created on a variety of topics… Two new groups that should be of interest to conference-goers: the 2010 National Conference Group and the Shared Housing Conference [...]

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