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Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: The Grand Challenge of Coral Reef Sustainability, March 7, 2024
Even optimistic climate scenarios predict catastrophic consequences for coral reef ecosystems by 2100. Understanding how reef connectivity, biodiversi...
Web Seminar
In this seminar, committee members will facilitate an exploration of innovative teaching strategies, share stories, and build a community for edu...
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 7, 2023
By Debra Shapiro
Journal Article
Beavers are social mammals who live in groups, known as colonies, and they construct dams and lodges, which modify the surrounding landscape. In their...
By Jill Nugent
Journal Article
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins said, “There are those who fear reason as cold, bleak, cheerless, unpoetic. That’s not just untrue; it’s ...
By Katie Coppens
Journal Article
Using iNaturalist to Support Place-Based Learning and Data Analysis
Often, we think that to learn about nature, students must be in a “natural” place to experience the environment, but this assumption can be proble...
By Amanda V. Garner and Joshua Rosenberg
Journal Article
Questions are powerful tools teachers can use to understand and scaffold students’ thinking (Clough 2007). However, not all questions are equally ef...
By Jesse Wilcox, Kean Roberts, Jacob Kaemmer, Jessica McKenzie, and Carson McClain
Journal Article
Teach Sublimation With Markers!
Sublimation, the change of state from solid to gas, is a challenging concept for many students to grasp and a curious phenomenon to investigate. Our e...
By Christine G. Schnittka and Mark Brenneman
Journal Article
How many times have you found yourself sitting in a cafeteria or classroom staring at a professional development PowerPoint being presented by someone...
By Adriana E. Martinez and Alejandra O. Martinez
Journal Article
Student Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource (SUPeR)
As suggested in A Framework for K–12 Science Education (National Research Council 2012), “Scientific knowledge is a particular kind of knowledge w...
By Jamie Rapkiewcz, Jongchan Park, Ying-Chih Chen, and Michelle E. Jordan
Journal Article
Hearing All Voices to Promote Learning Orientation and Effective Collaboration
Motivation and collaboration intersect in important ways in a science classroom. One important motivational component of collaborative work is what st...
By Pei Pei Liu, Sharon Taylor, Ann Colwell-Johnson, Alexandra Lee, David McKinney, Christopher J. Harris, Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Gwen C. Marchand, and Jennifer A. Schmidt
Journal Article
Students with visual impairments are often the only students at their school who read braille. They often do not participate in science fairs, in some...
By Tiffany Wild, Tina Herzberg, and L. Penny Rosenblum
Journal Article
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, October 31, 2023
By Debra Shapiro
Web Seminar
This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing secondary-level safer science/STEM laboratory activiti...