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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, March 5, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Blog Post
The Final Push to Be Ready for the April 8 Solar Eclipse: Ways to Be a Resource to Your Community
By Dennis Schatz, Andrew Fraknoi, and Flavio Mendez
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, February 27, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, February 20, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Web Seminar
The National Climate Assessment is a major scientific report developed by several government agencies that describes climate change in the United States. This session will highlight the science found in the report, and then explore resources that sup...
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, February 13, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, February 6, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Web Seminar
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 more about NASA’s Earth-observing missions and do a deep dive into the Global Precipitation Measu...
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, January 30, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Journal Article
Growing Beyond Earth: Cultivating 21st century science exploration
Citizen Science column for the Jan/Feb 2024 Science Scope Journal...
Journal Article
Discover student thinking while analyzing data…and having fun! (Data Literacy 101)
Our students rarely practice data skills with data not related to our science content, which makes sense given all we must teach. But always asking our students to succeed at the data skill move (e.g., graphing, analyzing, interpreting) and the conte...
Journal Article
The Science Practice of Modeling as a Sensemaking Tool
Does the scientific practice of modeling actually support students in making thinking visible? Middle school teachers can build from the work of 12 K–8 teachers who wanted to learn how the practice of modeling is developed across grades and analy...
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Journal Article
Exploring Socioscientific Issues through Evidence-Based Argumentation with MEL Diagrams
Critical thinking skills are best taught as students participate in the scientific practice of argumentation. When engaged in scientific argumentation students are expected to engage in active listening and social collaboration through the process o...
Journal Article
Making Scientific Sensemaking Visible
Many teachers and schools are coming to recognize the importance of sensemaking in the science classroom. But what does an NGSS-informed sensemaking lesson look like in practice, and how might our students respond to this shift in our instruction? Th...