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Research and Teaching: What Determines Student Acceptance of Politically Controversial Scientific Conclusions?

Journal Article

Research and Teaching: What Determines Student Acceptance of Politically Controversial Scientific Conclusions?

The authors use large-scale survey data to explore the nature, extent, and determinants of student resistance to scientific conclusions about evolutio...

Research and Teaching: Show Me the Way: Future Faculty Prefer Directive Feedback When Trying Active Learning Approaches

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Research and Teaching: Show Me the Way: Future Faculty Prefer Directive Feedback When Trying Active Learning Approaches

In this study, the authors incorporate feedback as a key component of a pedagogical course for future faculty who had never taught or were currently n...

Research and Teaching: Introducing Engineering Design to a Science Teaching Methods Course Through Educational Robotics and Exploring Changes in Views of Preservice Elementary Teachers

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Research and Teaching: Introducing Engineering Design to a Science Teaching Methods Course Through Educational Robotics and Exploring Changes in Views of Preservice Elementary Teachers

Preservice elementary teachers need to know how to integrate the engineering design process into their science teaching. In this article, the authors ...

Research and Teaching: Comparing Student Learning in the Team-Based Learning Classroom With Different Team Reporting Methods

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Research and Teaching: Comparing Student Learning in the Team-Based Learning Classroom With Different Team Reporting Methods

The increase in classroom technology has resulted in the use of clickers and other audience response systems (ARS) for simultaneous reporting of choic...

Research and Teaching: Improving the Science Teaching Self-Efficacy of Preservice Elementary Teachers: A Multiyear Study of a Hybrid Geoscience Course

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Research and Teaching: Improving the Science Teaching Self-Efficacy of Preservice Elementary Teachers: A Multiyear Study of a Hybrid Geoscience Course

This article describes the impact of a hybrid Earth and space science course, taught online and complemented by a 2-hour face-to-face lab, on the sci...

Harnessing Solar Energy, Grade 4: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)

Book Chapter

Harnessing Solar Energy, Grade 4: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)

What if you could challenge your fourth graders to use solar energy to provide the world with clean water? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curr...

Amusement Park of the Future, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School (Book Sample)

Book Chapter

Amusement Park of the Future, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School (Book Sample)

What if you could challenge your sixth graders to design an amusement park for children of tomorrow to safely enjoy? With this volume in the STEM Road...

Journal Article

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

Informal Education

Early STEM Learning

Journal Article

Early STEM Learning

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

Early Childhood Informal Education

Journal Article

Head Start on Engineering

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

Informal Education Engineering STEM

Journal Article

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

Informal Education

Connected Science Learning October-December 2017

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Connected Science Learning October-December 2017

Volume 1, Issue 4 STEM Education for Early Learners ...

Informal Education

Scientists and Engineers Are DREAMERS (Grades 3–5)

Book Chapter

Scientists and Engineers Are DREAMERS (Grades 3–5)

In this lesson, students learn that scientists and engineers are dreamers. They read about amateur scientist Luke Howard in the book The Man Who Named...

Scientists and Engineers Are THINKERS (Grades 3–5)

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Scientists and Engineers Are THINKERS (Grades 3–5)

In this lesson, students learn that scientists and engineers are thinkers. They read about inventor Philo Farnsworth in the book The Boy Who Invented ...

Scientists and Engineers Are INSPIRED (Grades 3–5)

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Scientists and Engineers Are INSPIRED (Grades 3–5)

In this lesson, students learn that scientists and engineers are inspired. They read about inventor Thomas Edison in the book Young Thomas Edison. Aft...

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