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Engineering Encounters: Robots, Bookmarks, and Guitars, Oh My!
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue discusses fusing art and design into an upper-elementary electricity unit....
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Design an Energy-Efficient House: Applying Multidisciplinary Knowledge to Solve a Design Challenge
Can you keep a house warm while avoiding high energy bills?...
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The Exploratorium Teacher Institute leverages a network of teachers, education researchers, practicing scientists, and informal education staff to address the professional learning needs of secondary science teachers. ...
By Julie H. Yu and Sara C. Heredia
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Engineering Encounters: Building a Spaghetti Structure
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month's issue an upper elementary STEM challenge brings an engineer into the classroom while emphasizing cooperation, communication, and creativity....
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Engineering Encounters: Designing Healthy Ice Pops
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information about a STEM enrichment project for second graders that incorporates nutrition and design principles....
NSTA Press Book
Bringing STEM to the Elementary Classroom
Many resources help you encourage young children to learn about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). But only this book of quality STEM experiences was curated by the veteran educator who edits Science and Children, NSTA’s award-winni...
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STEM Smart meetings bring together educators, advocates, policy makers, and STEM thought leaders. The resulting Briefs allow all educators to learn about the meetings’ valuable takeaways. ...
By Barbara Brauner Berns
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Science Club is a new, mentor-based after-school program for underserved middle school youth. It is designed to address the gaps described above by connecting in-school and out-of-school learning. Through weekly, inquiry-based, small-group instructio...
By Michael Kennedy, Rebecca Daugherty, Cecilia Garibay, Camellia Sanford, Jennifer Koerner, Jennifer Lewin, and Rosemary Braun
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When Spider Webs Unite, They Can Tie Up a Lion
Urban Advantage Denver builds collaboration between formal and informal education partners to meet a common challenge: filling the opportunity gap for low-income, Latino, and African American students to close their growing achievement gap within for...
By Eric Godoy, and Patricia Kincaid
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Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and the Omaha Public School District partnered to form the Zoo Academy, a school-within-a-zoo model that relies on the successful collaboration between an informal science education organization and a school ...
By Elizabeth Mulkerrin
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Full STEM Ahead: Afterschool Programs Step Up as Key Partners in STEM Education, describes parental attitudes and perceptions of STEM programming in their child’s after-school setting. ...
By Anita Krishnamurthi
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Bridging Neuroscience and Education Through Museum-School Partnerships
The Franklin Institute provides programs that help educators of all disciplines understand the key ideas and recommendations for enhanced teaching practices based on new research from the field of neuroscience. ...
By Dale McCreedy, Jayatri Das, and Julia Skolnik