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I would like to find some time-efficient way to have students share their learning or their observations with me (individually) without having to take...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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Stimulate Science Learning with Student Debates
The new NSTA Press book ...
By Carole Hayward
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How Can You Assess the Science Your Children Are Doing and Learning?
A guest post by Cindy Hoisington (choisington@edc.org), an early childhood science educator and researcher at Education Development Center Inc. in Wal...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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The Vernier Go Direct EKG Sensor: The Heart in Action
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were bro...
By Martin Horejsi
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I want to know if there are ways to incorporate [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)] into more or all subjects? How would a teac...
By Gabe Kraljevic
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Equity in STEM Education: It’s All About Culture!
Guest post by Alicia Santiago When you think about diversity, how does it show itself? When you stand before your students, do the faces looking ba...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Building STEAM With Model Railroads
Are you a science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) teacher seeking a new way to interest students in these subjects? While model railr...
By Debra Shapiro
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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 stude...
By Debra Shapiro
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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
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What Does It Really Take to Get High School Students to Make Their Ideas Visible?
Asking high school students to reveal what they really think about what causes a natural or designed phenomenon is risky business. Risky in that it re...
By Angie Berk, Jen MacColl and Kristen Moorhead
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Going Public: Revealing Student Thinking in Science by Missy Holzer
Our classrooms are dynamic places where young learners gather to figure out the natural world. How can we be sure they are all making sense of the phe...
By Kate Falk
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Making Students’ Thinking Visible Through Discussion by Dana McCusker and Marisa Miller
As the assistant director of science for Mastery Charter Schools I have had the pleasure of working with Dana McCusker and seeing her excellent teachi...
By Kate Falk
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Explore Before Explain to Engage More Students
A new addition to the Instructional Sequence Matters series has arrived!...
By Carole Hayward