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Science Update: The Technologies of Ocean Exploration - Today and Into the Future, July 16, 2020
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Join us on Thursday, July 16, 2020, starting at 7:00 pm ET to learn about some of the amazing tools that are helping us to map, identify, characterize, and manage ocean resources now and for future generations. The…
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Interest in science and technology is essential to good citizenship. By adapting items from other scales and writing new items, the authors developed the Attitudes Toward Science and Technology scale, containing 30…
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Researching Radon: Students use GIS technology to analyze radon levels in Italian communities
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United States students whose parents serve at Avianto Air Base in Avianto, Italy, live in many different villages in this region of northern Italy. Due to the varied geological conditions in which students live, a wide…
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This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This month's column describes an activity for eighth-grade classrooms that addresses energy transformation and…
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Find Out Why: Use this program during this year's National Science and Technology Week
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Find Out Why is the flagship publication of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science and Engineering Outreach Programs. Each issue asks a question that is shaped around children’s interests and explores…
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Building a Better Biology Lab? Testing Tablet PC Technology in a Core Laboratory Course
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Tablet PC technology can enliven the classroom environment because it is dynamic, interactive, and “organic,” relative to the rigidity of chalkboards, whiteboards, overhead projectors, and PowerPoint presentations.…
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What’s It Like Where You Live? Meeting the Standards through technology-enhanced inquiry
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“What’s It Like Where You Live?” is a unit that involves an extended comparison of biomes, defined as regions characterized by distinctive climate, plants, and animals. By designing the curriculum around the Standards,…
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Star Wars: The name alone implies action, adventure, the vastness of space, alien creatures, and of course, who can forget light sabers? Since the Star Wars saga has entertained millions of people around the world…