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The First and Most Important Day of Class

Focus on Physics...

By Paul G. Hewitt

High School Pedagogy Physical Science Physics Teaching Strategies

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Fostering Inclusive Collaboration: Strategies to Disrupt Inequities in Student Groupwork

This paper examines challenges in student groupwork, emphasizing the impact of collaborative learning dynamics on outcomes. Addressing uneven participation and unintentional exclusion, it explores nuanced aspects of perceived student status, revealin...

By Anna Karina Monteiro, Michele Cheyne, and Lauren Kline

High School Curriculum Equity Teaching Strategies

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Group Learning Routines as a tool to build equitable learning experiences in a Biology classroom

The vision behind the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is that all students engage in explaining phenomena and designing solutions with three-dimensional learning. Authentic sensemaking involves opportunities for learners to share, analyze, a...

By Elizabeth Chatham, Joy Otibu, and Andrea Sau

High School Biology Environmental Science Equity NGSS Sensemaking Social Justice

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Early Retirement: Making Sense of Patterns in Historical Data of Retired Hurricanes

Long after a hurricane passes over and through any region or coastal area, the memories of it often linger. There may be visual reminders of the storm and the day lives may have been changed, or lost, forever. Hurricanes can be long-lived storms. The...

By Christopher Roemmele, Joby Hilliker, and Victoria Clayton

High School Crosscutting Concepts Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Sensemaking Teaching Strategies

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BEE Ambassadors for Pollen

This lesson allows students to engage in sense-making through the cross-cutting analysis of the form and function of pollen, carried by pollinators. Students observe the microscopic features of pollen and how insects transport these fine, but critica...

By Laura Wheeler, Rita Hagevik, and Kathy Cabe Trundle

High School Biology Engineering

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Constructive student roles for authentic collaboration in engineering design challenges

Student roles can promote collaboration and individual accountability in groups during engineering design challenges. However, student disengagement may occur if students do not perceive value in their roles. We introduce four distinct roles—qualit...

By Andrew Kipp and Gustavo Perez

High School Engineering Science and Engineering Practices STEM

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Rain Gardens and Rain Gauges: Students get hands on with data while evaluating green infrastructure at their school

Two modules were designed for high school science students to investigate the performance of a rain garden installed on school property. The rain garden, a green infrastructure system which allows soil infiltration, was installed to reduce impacts to...

By Lauren Brase, Robert Ford, Amy Parker, Heather Mayfield, Adam Lehmann, and Sarah Meadows

Climate Science Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Inquiry

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Talk it Out! Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment with Dialogues

Getting ALL students involved in a class can be a difficult task. Getting students EXCITED about reading, writing, and learning can be an even MORE difficult task. Fortunately, the use of Dialogues is an easy strategy that any teacher can implement...

By Anne Levendusky and Gregory Bisbee

High School Curriculum Inclusion Literacy

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Here Come the Robots: A Century of Fear and Fascination with Automated Machines

Teaching resources from the Library of Congress...

By Kelsey Beeghly

High School General Science STEM Technology

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Teacher Spotlight: Kate Harding

An interview with Kate Harding...

By Ann Haley MacKenzie

High School New Science Teachers Teacher Preparation

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Metallurgical Engineer Wendi Cooksey

An interview with metallurgical engineer Wendi Cooksey...

By Luba Vangelova

High School Careers Engineering General Science

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Moving Around as a Teacher

What other profession gives summers off, with the bonus of teaching in different locations? In this article I’ll tell how taking leaves of absence to teach at other locations was one of the opportunities that I enjoyed, which hopefully is available...

By Paul Hewitt

High School New Science Teachers Physics Teacher Preparation

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Generating opportunities: Strategies to elevate Science and Engineering Practices using ChatGPT

Within this Idea Bank, we offer practical strategies to integrate ChatGPT across three science and engineering practices (i.e., asking questions and defining problems, planning and carrying out investigations, and analyzing and interpreting data) dur...

By Andrew Kipp, Nathan Hawk, Gustavo Perez

High School Science and Engineering Practices STEM Teaching Strategies Technology

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 Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?

By Ann Haley MacKenzie

High School STEM Teaching Strategies Technology

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People Designing for People: A One-Week Human-Centered Design Engineering Summer Camp for Pre-College Students

This paper describes the design and implementation of a week-long engineering summer camp that engages pre-college learners in human-centered design principles. Students worked in teams of 3-5 to create and present a viable prototype for a specified ...

By Taylor Tucker, Saadeddine Shehab

High School Engineering STEM Teaching Strategies Technology