 | | Name: E-mail: newsletter@newslettercollector.com Member Status: | | November 28, 2016 | | | Connected Science Learning's second issue focuses on professional development partnerships between in-school and out-of-school institutions that can help teachers in every setting prepare to engage learners. Read a sample article: "Noticing by NYSCI", shows how student learning and engagement through the use of five specialized, iPad-based mobile apps known as Noticing Tools. |  |
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| | | Use promo code CYBMON16 to unlock exclusive savings on NSTA membership. With an NSTA membership, you'll get top-notch professional learning resources, grade level-specific journals, discounts on face-to-face conference opportunities, online learning, publications that enhance your content knowledge, and more. Join or renew your membership for one year for $64, a $15 savings off "Individual Member" rate. Offer valid Monday, November 28, through Monday, December 5. | |
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| | | Join the Bright Schools Competition for a informational webinar on Tuesday, December 6, from 6:30–8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Learn how light and sleep affect students and find out how to get your 6–8 graders involved in this exciting science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) experience. Register today! | |
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| | | | | | | Have you mined this month's NSTA journals for activities and resources? Mary Bigelow's newest NSTA blog gives you a run down on what's inside this month journals along with a brief description of each article. Join NSTA to get access to all of our journals with your preferred journal mailed to your home or school! | |
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| | | There's still time to join us for #NSTA16 Columbus and become a champion of science. Our featured speaker Ainissa Ramirez wowed audiences earlier this year at our Minneapolis conference and her "Be a STEM Hero" session in Columbus is sure to do the same in Columbus. Browse through the conference program, download the conference app, and view more offerings in the conference browser. | |
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| | | Apply for the National Gardening Association's Youth Garden Grant to receive award packages including plants, gardening supplies, and Kids Gardening curriculum (deadline December 15). University of Minnesota Schoolyard Ecology Explorations Garden Grants provide up to $1,000 to purchase plants, gardening equipment, curriculum, staff development, and other items that foster connections between students and nature (deadline December 16). And the Fruit Tree 101 Program brings fruit-tree orchards to schoolyards so students can improve air and water quality while creating a source of tasty snacks (rolling deadline). Check your NSTA Calendar for more ways to fund gardens and other school projects. | |
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| | | NSTA Kids, a division of NSTA Press, recently released four new books to inspire kids' imagination and encourage them to ask questions about the world around them. Get more in–depth information on these books here. | |
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| | sponsored by | | | Honda is taking its philosophy of using the Power of Dreams to the classrooms with the Honda Robotics Contest. Students, clubs or other organizations can win a visit from Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO by demonstrating your team's vision of how robotics will affect the world by 2066. Video, photo, and essay submissions are all encouraged. Organizations can submit up to three (3) entries. Click HERE for contest rules and entry submission information. The entry deadline is January 10, 2017. | |
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| | sponsored by | | | California University of Pennsylvania is a proud partner with NSTA to offer educators the chance to enhance their classroom skills in STEM education! With Cal U's 100% online Masters of Education in STEM Education and 100% online Masters of Education in Technology Education, classroom teachers can gain new insights on developing and implementing STEM and Technology principles in their curriculums and their classrooms! With topics ranging from sustainability, curriculum design and development, instructional design, assessment and content knowledge in the STEM disciplines, educators can complete a convenient, flexible and affordable master's degree program that can allow them to make a difference in the lives of their students! Cal U also offers an online, nine credit professional development certificate in STEM for teachers. Learn more about Cal U's online STEM related programs at www.calu.edu/teachered. | |
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