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Blog Post
Medical Schools Offer STEM Pipeline Programs
In Newark, New Jersey, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School offers Science, Medicine, and Related Topics, a pipeline program for underrepresented students interested in careers in medicine, dentistry, biomedical research, and other health-related care...
By Debra Shapiro
NSTA Press Book
Integrating STEM Teaching and Learning Into the K–2 Classroom
New in 2020!“Integrating STEM Teaching and Learning Into the K–2 Classroom is a critically important contribution toward advancing STEM teaching and learning. It blazes a trail for early elementary classroom practitioners to reflect the latest th...
By Jo Anne Vasquez, Michael Comer, Jen Gutierrez
Blog Post
Coronavirus Meets ... Physics? Making a Biological Topic Fit into a Physics World
Author: Stephanie Duke, Physics Teacher and Science Department Chair at Graves County High School in Mayfield, KY...
By Korei Martin
Journal Article
High school students grew up online and in video games. FLEET is a free ship-design simulator that reaches students in their native environment—video games. It is also a physics simulator that applies content first learned through hands-on sci...
By MICHAEL BRISCOE
Journal Article
Interactive science simulations (sims) have become popular tools for science educators, and research confirms that sims can improve student learning (Rutten, van Joolingen, and van der Veen 2012). Over the past 15 years, the PhET Interac- tive S...
By ARGENTA PRICE, CARL WIEMAN, AND KATHERINE PERKINS
Journal Article
As a Connected Science Learning reader, you already know that collaboration is what this journal is all about. We strive to publish articles that highlight ways different organizations come together to connect in-school STEM (science, technology, e...
By Beth Murphy
Book Chapter
Human Impacts on Our Climate, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School (Book Sample)
What if you could challenge your sixth graders to come up with a way to help tackle climate change in their own community? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Human Impacts on Our Climate outlines a journey that will ...
Blog Post
How PLCs Helped Move Us Toward Equitable High School Assessment Practices
My colleagues and I began using units intentionally designed for the NGSS for biology in early 2017. We started with a high-quality unit evaluated by my colleagues on the Science Peer Review Panel, and eventually used a full program from the unit’s...
By Holly Hereau
Journal Article
Design Elements From a Rural, Multi-Organization Collaborative
On a Saturday afternoon last May in Hamilton, Montana, 150 people gathered in a college gymnasium for the Bitterroot Maker Fair. At tables around the room, student educators from the University of Montana (UM) spectrUM Discovery Area guided K–12 ...
By Beth Covitt, Vic Mortimer, Nick Wethington, and Nathalie Wolfram
Journal Article
Middle school is a critical time for fostering girls’ interest in science, as it is during these years that girls begin to identify with their strengths and weaknesses and start to decide what kind of person to be (Allen and Eisenhart 2017; Carlo...
By Alicia Santiago, Kristin Pederson, and Rita Karl