Teaching science by discussing issues and current events is a great way to motivate your students to learn. Food-bourne illness, genetic engineering, environmental change—all of these provide a real-life context to help students understand science concepts. Where can I learn more about resources and strategies to do this effectively? Find out in our next web seminar in the NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar Series, Thinking Like a Scientist: Teaching With Current Science Issues on Tuesday, January 12th at 6:00pm Eastern Time. This web seminar is free and available to anyone interested. We’ll look at resources from Actionbioscience that lay out easy-to-use resources, activities, as well as national science standards correlations to resources in the collection. Register Today!