Listening to understand is more than *just* listening. 👂✨ Discover tactics you can use to help students better grasp directions and new material! #MiddleSchool #HighSchoolTeacher #EduSky

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🧪 It’s Daily Dos-day! Every Tuesday, we’re sharing a Daily Do—a standalone lesson you can use in your classroom right away. Follow along each week 👇 bit.ly/4s0bm7N #NSTA #DailyDos #ScienceEducation

👋 Welcome to the official National Science Teaching Association on Bluesky! Connect with us and discover new classroom resources, professional learning opportunities, conference updates, advocacy news, and science community highlights. Follow along and join the conversation. www.nsta.org #NSTA

As we count down to #DarwinDay, we're re-visiting some great pieces on why we teach evolution! "Let us also ask the question from a student’s point of view: Why learn evolution?" https://ncse.ngo/why-teach-and-learn-about-evolution

🐙 Talk about a hands-off romance! Male octopuses have a specialized arm called a hectocotylus, which they use for reproduction. Some species even detach the arm entirely and leave it with the female until she’s ready to fertilize her eggs. 💌Find more ocean love: go.whoi.edu/ocean-lovers

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Intercalated bacterial biofilms are intrinsic internal components of calcium-based kidney stones.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/4PV050YcoVJ For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/eBr450YcoVG.

Save the date for our 64th annual conference on science education! Interested in presenting? Submit a proposal this spring!

OSTA CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE EDUCATION Tides of Discovery, Bridges to the Future Learn, reconnect, & recharge at #OSTA25 Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025 Newport Middle School, Newport, OR Register by Oct 10, 2025 Register early & Save! Early Reg ends Sep 12 oregonscience.org/event-5944108

🎒 Educators, are you getting ready for back to school? Find out about activities, lessons, and events every month in our K-12 Educate newsletter. Sign up here ⬇️ buff.ly/VbzTsSo

OSTA CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE EDUCATION Tides of Discovery, Bridges to the Future Learn, reconnect, & recharge at #OSTA25 Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025 Newport Middle School, Newport, OR Register by Oct 10, 2025 Register early & Save! Early Reg ends Sep 12 oregonscience.org/event-5944108

The University of Washington has developed the Thermal History of Regulated Rivers, or THORR, a website that uses artificial intelligence to interpret all that temperature data from NASA’s Landsat satellites, dating back decades.

We just published a NEW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social on how to PROMOTE EQUITY in #STEMed — based on the powerful @nasem-education.bsky.social EQUITY IN K-12 STEM ED report. Be sure to explore the detailed equity assessment tool included! ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/101 PLS RESKEET #SciEd #NGSS

For the new followers interested in #ClimateChange Ed, here's our collection of open ed resources on how to #TeachClimate… 🌿 stemteachingtools.org/sp/climate-l... These professional learning resources have been co-designed by researchers & practitioners over the past decade. See what you think!

Event Announcement: Using Dairy and Agriculture as Contexts for Incorporating NGSS, January 09, 2025 During this one-hour webinar, we’ll explore dynamic and relevant ways to engage students with STEM through agriculture, food systems and dairy nutrition. Join us! oregonscience.org/event-5967131

"In sum, the study provides further evidence that considering learning style in teaching methods such as presentation mode is not beneficial. Importantly, the present study used ecologically valid learning materials and a sufficiently powered sample." #AcademicSky #EduSky

📚 EDUCATOR RESOURCE | Modeling Factors that Influence Tsunami Inundation Learners investigate how tsunami waves interact with topographic features and design an investigation to test tsunami inundation of different landform features using a model. Activity: https://loom.ly/8-k7sw8

Led by @cw3escripps.bsky.social and NOAA, the #AtmosphericRiver Reconnaissance program is sending aircraft into the heart of brewing storms to gather data that sharpens forecasts, helping communities prepare for what’s ahead. 💧

Please help us to spread the news about this episode of the @ipbes.bsky.social podcast - it is a great resource to help explain and understand the new #NexusAssessment - with some very concrete, remarkable examples and featuring @pammcelwee.bsky.social and Paula Harrison

Recent Earthquake Teachable Moment for the M7.0 earthquake offshore Northern California Teachable Moments presentations capture the opportunity to bring knowledge, insight, and critical thinking to the classroom following a newsworthy earthquake. ➡️ https://loom.ly/4pyrYfQ

You're making your list, you're checking it twice, it's books all around for kids, naughty and nice. In today's episode, two bookworm experts join us to share science book recommendations for the kids in your life. Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/3Mut28J

If you click on nothing else today, click on this & read the comprehensive summary of 2024's 10 most impactful research studies. Thanks, @edutopia.org! #EduSky #TLSky

Just added some new folks! So many of your old faves from the bird place. Keeping it to folks who work in/on PK-12 #SciEd in formal, informal, research, and non-profit spaces. #EduSky go.bsky.app/FdpEmsi

PLS RP #SciEd #NGSS #TeachClimate Do you teach MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS who have experienced #ClimateChange? We just published a new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social on how to leverage student & community expertise in #ClimateJustice instruction with a focus on language! ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/99

There's a Starter Pack! All of the accounts of the National Academies, plus feeds for report and event mentions. Get started: https://buff.ly/3BgqSYj