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Creating Professional Development for Informal and K–12 Educators
The results of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate surveys help science education professional development providers successfully work with educato...
By Lindsay Bartolone
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Editor Dennis Schatz welcomes readers to the fourth issue, which addresses the theme STEM for Early Learners. Welcome to the fourth iss...
By Dennis Schatz
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The Head Start on Engineering project engages parents and children in a multicomponent family engineering program that includes professional develop...
By Scott Pattison, Gina Svarovsky, Ivel Gontan, Pam Greenough Corrie, Marcie Benne, Shannon Weiss, Verónika Nuñez, and Smirla Ramos-Montañez
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A Screencasting Strategy to Support STEM Learning in the Early Grades
Learn how a research–practice partnership used screencasting to promote early elementary students’ mathematics learning and communication. &n...
By Josephine Louie, Pamela Buffington, and Jennifer Stiles
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Informal Science Learning in Online Affinity Spaces
Affinity spaces are online forums in which participants, including informal science education professionals, share with one another teaching and lea...
By Richard Hudson
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In the Billion Oyster Project, middle school students study and conduct field research of New York Harbor and its watershed to support restoration o...
By Lauren Birney
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The Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery strives to provide a hub for play-based science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) learning experienc...
By Jennifer Parsons, Sara L. Hartman, Jennifer Hines-Bergmeier, and Christie Truly
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Free reports from the National Research Council and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine can help practitioners bridge in-s...
By Jay B. Labov
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Facilitating Formal–Informal Connections in Rural STEM Ecosystems
“STEM Guides” serve as human brokers to connect 10- to 18-year-old youth from rural Maine in STEM education opportunities that already exist in ...
By Jan Mokros, Jennifer Atkinson, Sue Allen, Alyson Saunders, and Kate Kastelein
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Collaboratory = Collaborate + Laboratory
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By Peggy Harris Willcuts, and Cathleen Kennedy
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Learn how to create opportunities for young people from low-income, ethnically diverse communities to learn about growing food, doing science, and how...
By Amie Patchen, Andrea Aeschlimann, Anne Vera-Cruz, Anushree Kamath, Deborah Jose, Jackie DeLisi, Michael Barnett, Paul Madden, and Rajeev Rupani
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Collaboration + Good Coffee = Connected Science Learning Success
A collaboration between two North Carolina state agencies allows in-school and out-of-school educators to share knowledge, engage students in in-sch...
By Debra T. Hall, Benita B. Tipton, Lisa Tolley, and Marty Wiggins
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Showing how various math and science topics relate to the real world is the key to motivating youth to pursue STEM careers. This idea is essential t...
By Elizabeth Murray and Richard Larson
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Editor Dennis Schatz introduces the third issue, focused on how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning surrounds us. ...
By Dennis Schatz
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Learn how rural students in Kentucky shared their classroom knowledge by presenting on health topics and new technologies at flea markets, swap meet...
By Robin Cooper, Kim Zeidler, Diane Johnson, and Jennifer Wilson