A safer science lab starts with a weekly look around.

🥽 Dr. Ken Roy’s NSTA safety blog shares a recommended weekly inspection checklist for school labs, plus a way to track every finding until it’s closed. Read it: bit.ly/4yGuP0O
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Third graders watched frog eggs become tadpoles, then tiny frogs, right in their schoolyard.

🐸 Teachers in urban districts are using the 3-H model to make outdoor science like this happen. Read the open-access Science and Children article: bit.ly/4ySTsYn
#NSTA #OutdoorLearning

Q: Can two samples hold the same amount of a hormone and still work differently?
A: That’s the question behind “Menstrual Cycle Misfire,” a new NCSS case study on LH glycosylation by Megna Tiwari and Erin L. Dolan. bit.ly/4yKcG26
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🚠 Daily Dos-day: how do you slow a zipline cart before it hits the pole? “Taking a Zipline to School” has students use forces and engineering constraints to design a solution. www.nsta.org/daily-do/zip...
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📅 Coming up at 7 PM ET:
10/14 NSTA Teacher Awards: bit.ly/3TxS9ib
10/15 Beyond Word Walls, language development in science: bit.ly/4es7B6m
10/19 Secondary lab safety: bit.ly/47yUUmN
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Science is under their feet. 🌿 Brooke Whitworth, Editor of The Science Teacher, shares why outdoor and place-based learning can be the spine of rigorous science, not the sidebar. Read the NSTA blog post:https://bit.ly/4jTijXb
#NSTA #PlaceBasedLearning

🌎 Earth Science Week is Oct 11-17! Theme: Critical Minerals for a Thriving Society. Explore NSTA's Earth science lessons and join our free Oct. 22 web seminar on earthquakes and ShakeAlert: nsta.org
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PLI #4 at Indy26: Meaningful AI Integration in Problem-Based Storylined STEM Units. Greg Benedis-Grab and Dr. Kate Henson lead three hands-on AI units built for middle/high school science. Wed, Nov 4, 8 AM-3 PM, $150.

Register: bit.ly/4zihU59
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New case study: "The Fate of the Romanovs" has undergraduate students use real forensic genetics, PCR, pedigree analysis, and mitochondrial sequencing to investigate the Romanov remains and the mutation behind the heir's hemophilia.

Get it here: bit.ly/4zklxHP
#NSTA #ScienceEducation

PLI #3 at Indy26: From the Sky to Your School: Exploring and Implementing OpenSciEd Elementary. Guy Lamont Ollison, Ed.D. and Tami Plein lead a sky-observation storyline unit plus free PLC resources. Wed, Nov 4, 8 AM-3 PM, $150.

Register: bit.ly/4s8uJwJ
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🍁 Fall is a great time to invest in your district's science teaching.

NSTA's School and District Services offer OpenSciEd support, sensemaking coaching, and HQIM alignment built around your district's goals.

Learn more:http://bit.ly/42CdisI
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Our partner @crunchlabs.bsky.social just launched Class CrunchLabs, a free program bringing hands-on physics and engineering video courses to grades 6-8 classrooms. NSTA is proud to help bring it to teachers nationwide.

Learn more: bit.ly/4hTupy6

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New Daily Do: how does sonar work, and how can it help map the seafloor more accurately? Middle schoolers test sound wave simulations and paper models to find out.

Get it here: www.nsta.org/daily-do/sonar

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PLI #2 at Indy26: Making STEM Meaningful: Putting Sensemaking at the Center. NSTA's Professional Learning Team spends the day on phenomenon-driven, three-dimensional teaching, closing with grade-banded strategy building. Wed, Nov 4, 8 AM-3 PM, $150.

Register: bit.ly/4jGnOZa
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World Space Week is October 4-10, 2026. This year's theme, "Rocket Revolution," celebrates just how fast launch technology is changing.

A good week to bring space science into your classroom.

#NSTA #WorldSpaceWeek

Member perk spotlight: NSTA membership includes access to five peer-reviewed journals, one for every grade band, packed with classroom-tested, research-backed strategies.

Learn more: www.nsta.org/membership
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New case study: "When Hypotheses Are Unsupported" walks students through a mysterious fish population decline, testing hypotheses, then revising them with new data. Built for high school and undergrad classrooms.

Get it here: bit.ly/4rJoa3h
#NSTA #ScienceEducation

New Daily Do: "How can we clean our classroom's air?" Middle schoolers engineer their own air purifiers, track real air quality data, and share findings with stakeholders.

Get it here: www.nsta.org/daily-do/cle...

#NSTA #DailyDo

New on the blog: using generative AI as a Socratic thinking partner (not an answer machine) to deepen students' Notice and Wonder questions. Christine Anne Royce, EdD, and Valerie Bennett, PhD, EdD, share a four-stage framework with built-in guardrails for K-12 classrooms.

bit.ly/3TnUD2v
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New on the NSTA blog: a 20-minute Day 1 activity where students grade sample lab reports before writing their own, building better scientific writing habits early.

Read: bit.ly/46HQBF5
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