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E-book Invites Young Readers to Discover How a Fish Fossil Exists in an Egyptian Desert
After devoting 25 years to the teaching profession, Mary Hanson was seeking “out of the box professional development opportunities.”...
By Carole Hayward
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Engaging Young Learners in the Practices of Science – Starting with Questions about Earthworms
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By Peggy Ashbrook
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Supporting Classroom Implementation of Investigations and Design for All Students
Previous blogs on this series have focused on describing the Science and Engineering for Grades 6-12: Investigation and Design at the Center report’s conclusions and recommendations on the importance and role of investigation and engineering design...
By Kate Falk
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Engaging in Authentic Research
High school students participating in Rutgers University’s Waksman Student Scholars Program spend a year conducting research projects in molecular biology and bioinformatics–the computational analysis of biological data̵...
By Debra Shapiro
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Why We Shouldn’t Keep "Bugs" in a Drawer
Guest blogger Monica Dolan is the STEM Curriculum Coordinator at The Children’s Center at CalTech where she works as a liaison between the administration and the teaching staff to ensure curriculum plans are consistent with the center’s conceptu...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Preventing Science Laboratory Fires
Most science and STEM laboratories contain chemicals and electrical wiring that could cause smoke or fires. For this reason, the National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA 45 (section 6.3) standard, in accordance with NFPA 10, requires portable fi...
By Kenneth Roy
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Engineering in early childhood continues
Engineering was celebrated last week but it continues to happen spontaneously, and with teachers’ support, in early childhood settings. Engineering happens when young children try to solve a problem by designing and testing a solution....
By Peggy Ashbrook
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Using Social Media and Technology to Encourage Students’ Evidence-Based Discussions
Teachers often aspire to help their students become more involved in a community of practice. In my classroom, members of the community are my students, as well as students in other classrooms and professional scientists. In this blog post, I will sh...
By Cindy Workosky
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How Teachers Can Use Technology to Support 3-D Teaching and Learning
Three-dimensional (3-D) teaching and learning integrates the use of science practices, crosscutting concepts, and core science ideas to help students make sense of the world. From a teaching perspective, learning progressions promote the use of scien...
By Cindy Workosky
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Using Collaborative Educational Technology Tools in Science
Science literacy is critical for our students. We need them to understand why it is important for them to do activities, such as composting. In fifth grade, one of the goals for students is to obtain information about, evaluate, and communicate how i...
By Cindy Workosky
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How do I motivate students who don’t want to do anything at all? — B., Utah If you ever solve this, you’ll be up for a Nobel Prize!...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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Pasco's Wireless Light Sensor Revisited using SPARKvue…
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By Edwin P. Christmann
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Supporting Science through Interdisciplinary Instruction
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have totally transformed my students’ learning experiences in STEM. However, like most teachers, my biggest challenge has been finding the additional time that students need to observe, question, investi...
By Korei Martin