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MSTA Web: **Your** new Web site We are pleased to announce our new website, the online home of the Maine Science Teachers Association. We have scoured the Web for the best resourcces out there, and placed them here to give you a launching pad to good science teaching. We welcome you to the site and invite you to browse around to see all the great resources that we have gathered here. But it's not about the site. Really. It's about you and your ideas. As an MSTA member, you can comment on stories, share in the forums and connect with other members. Don't let yourself be alone -- find links here and connect to others all over the state.   'Hands-On' Learning? A new field of study in neuroscience may shed light on the connection between gestures and learning. Research shows that teachers are more successful and conveying ideas and information if they gesture as they explain a concept, and students do not move their hands do not remember ideas as long as those who do spontaneously gesture. Read more...