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Program Evaluation in Formal and Informal STEM Learning Environments

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Program Evaluation in Formal and Informal STEM Learning Environments

Evaluation Insights is a new column about program evaluation that will help readers build their capacity as program evaluators....

Informal Education Administration Assessment STEM

Best Practices for STEM-Focused Mobile Instructional Spaces

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Best Practices for STEM-Focused Mobile Instructional Spaces

Mobile instructional spaces such as retrofit buses, customized trucks or trailers, and repurposed shipping containers are innovative, unique venues fo...

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STEM

A Safer “Flubber” Recipe

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A Safer “Flubber” Recipe

A material commonly known as Flubber, with properties that are excellent for teaching about glaciers, has been widely used in geosciences education. Y...

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Informal Education Earth & Space Science Life Science STEM

How Do You Sample a Frozen River?

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How Do You Sample a Frozen River?

Through the Sediment, Ice, & Learning on the Tanana (SILT) project, a team of university scientists engaged two middle school student groups in testin...

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Environmental Science Labs STEM

Changing Elementary Students’ Environmental-Based Attitudes Using an Outdoor Learning Experience: Watershed Investigations

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Changing Elementary Students’ Environmental-Based Attitudes Using an Outdoor Learning Experience: Watershed Investigations

The Learning Team at The Florida Aquarium in Tampa received funding in 2014 to create and conduct a long-term outdoor learning experience for Hillsbor...

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Informal Education Environmental Science Life Science STEM

Transition Complete! So What’s Next?

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Transition Complete! So What’s Next?

From the outside, it may not have seemed like a big deal, but transitioning the NSTA journals to an external publisher was a complex process. Of cours...

Engaging STEM Learners of All Ages: A University, Community, and K–12 Solar Eclipse Outreach Partnership

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Engaging STEM Learners of All Ages: A University, Community, and K–12 Solar Eclipse Outreach Partnership

Solar eclipses are a rare phenomenon that everyone should have the opportunity to explore in depth. This article describes two programs developed by a...

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Earth & Space Science STEM

Web Seminar

Archive: Science Update: Wildfires: Science and Technology, June 13, 2024

Wildfires have become an emerging issue of natural disasters in the U.S. For example, the 2023 Hawaii Maui Island Wildfire claimed more than 100 lives...

Elementary Middle School High School Postsecondary Informal Education Climate Change Earth & Space Science Engineering Environmental Science Life Science Robotics STEM

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Archive: Science Update: National Marine Sanctuaries as Models of Science-Based Ocean Climate Action, October 10, 2024

Climate change presents a distinct challenge for ocean and coastal place-based managers. The complexity of marine ecosystems, coupled with the difficu...

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

Web Seminar

Archive: FA24: Lab Safety Considerations for Pre-Service Secondary Science/STEM Teachers, October 21, 2024

This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing secondary-level safer science/STEM laboratory activiti...

Middle School High School Postsecondary General Science

Web Seminar

Archive: FA24: Lab Safety Considerations for Pre-Service Elementary Science/STEM Teachers, October 7, 2024

Elementary Pre-service Teachers! This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing elementary level saf...

Preschool Early Childhood Elementary Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers General Science

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