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Archive: Science Update: What’s Up with Precipitation? How NASA is Helping Us Better Understand Our Home Planet! April 25, 2024

Did you know that NASA has around two dozen satellites that continually monitor our home planet to help us better understand and protect it? Learn mor...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Life Science STEM

Models-Based Science Instruction

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Models-Based Science Instruction

Resources for teaching with Models...

High School Middle School General Science

Career of the Month: Industrial Engineer

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Career of the Month: Industrial Engineer

Industrial engineers apply math and engineering principles to make systems—comprised of humans, machines, information, materials and/or energy—mor...

High School Careers Engineering STEM

How Can We Make Our Students’ Thinking Visible?

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How Can We Make Our Students’ Thinking Visible?

Understanding our students’ thinking is paramount to moving a lesson forward and seeing where misconceptions exist. By providing particular prompts,...

High School Equity Inclusion Inquiry Literacy News Teaching Strategies

Becoming Scientifically Literate: Developing Epistemic Practices through Reading Scientific Papers

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Becoming Scientifically Literate: Developing Epistemic Practices through Reading Scientific Papers

To help students confront pseudoscientific claims and misinformation in their everyday lives, it is important to develop the epistemic practices of sc...

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High School Instructional Materials Literacy Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Concentrating on Cross-Disciplinary Connections: Using reaction rates to help students make connections between chemistry and biology.

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Concentrating on Cross-Disciplinary Connections: Using reaction rates to help students make connections between chemistry and biology.

Too often, science courses (e.g, biology, chemistry, and physics) are disconnected from one another. When this happens, students often don’t see ho...

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High School Biology Chemistry Crosscutting Concepts Interdisciplinary Physics Science and Engineering Practices

Multiple Representations and Multiple Expressions: Simulating Enzymatic Reactions to Showcase Learning

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Multiple Representations and Multiple Expressions: Simulating Enzymatic Reactions to Showcase Learning

The purpose of this article is to describe a lesson aimed at teaching students the function of enzymes in order to obtain mastery of NGSS Standard HS-...

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High School Biology Chemistry Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Labs NGSS Teaching Strategies

Conceptual and Mathematical Evolutionary Fitness models

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Conceptual and Mathematical Evolutionary Fitness models

Biological evolutionary models have become popular tools for inquiry. Models can help expose complex systems and guide experimentation. Not all resear...

High School Biology Evolution Mathematics Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Using Photo-journals to Support Real-World Connections to Classroom Content

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Using Photo-journals to Support Real-World Connections to Classroom Content

Many teachers are asked by their students how the science content they are learning in class matters in the "real world." Although these connections m...

High School Biology Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Teaching Strategies

A Solar Panel Modeling Project for Chemistry

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A Solar Panel Modeling Project for Chemistry

The Solar Panel Modeling Project challenged 10th-grade chemistry students to apply knowledge of Atomic Models to explain electricity generation in a s...

High School Chemistry Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Labs NGSS Physical Science Teaching Strategies

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