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Freebies for Science Teachers, June 22, 2021

By Debra Shapiro

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Talking About Forces

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students generally identify forces as pushes and pulls. ...

By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

Elementary Assessment Physical Science

Journal Article

Reimagining the 5 Practices for Effective and Equitable Discourse

By Kristin Cook, Sahar Alameh, Cathrine Maiorca, L. Octavia Tripp, Craig Schroeder, Margaret Mohr-Schroeder

Elementary Informal Education Pre-service Teachers Engineering Lesson Plans Science and Engineering Practices STEM

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Archive: Using Federal Relief Funding to Support Science Education, July 15, 2021

COVID-19 has affected schools and students across the United States in ways that may not be fullyunderstood for decades. As a result, Congress has made emergency funds available through theAmerican Rescue Plan Act Elementary and Secondary School Emer...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Middle School General Science

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From the Field: Events and Opportunities, June 15, 2021

By Debra Shapiro

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Web Seminar

Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Learn and Lead on Twitter, August 10, 2021

Explore how Twitter can be a vehicle for your own reflection, collaboration, and learning as well as a way to lead and advocate for science and STEM education by sharing your voice. We invite you to consider registering for more upcoming web ...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education General Science

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Why Do Fireflies Light Up?

By Rita Januszyk and Alison Haas

Elementary Life Science NGSS

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Needs of Seeds

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need to germinate. ...

By Page Keeley

Elementary Assessment Life Science

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Teaching About How Scientists Work—With a Focus on Claims-Evidence-Reasoning

By Matthew Bobrowsky

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The Kavli Foundation Keynote Presentation: The Story of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt: How Science Progresses. Engage Fall 2020

Middle School Elementary High School Postsecondary Earth & Space Science General Science

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Freebies for Science Teachers, June 8, 2021

By Debra Shapiro

Middle School Early Childhood Elementary High School Postsecondary Preschool 5E Careers Chemistry Citizen Science Climate Change Computer Science Curriculum Distance Learning Earth & Space Science Engineering General Science Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans Life Science News Physical Science Physics STEM Teaching Strategies

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Featured Presentation: Science Is All Around Us - Miss America - Engage Keynote Fall 2020

By Camille Schrier (Miss America 2020 and Biochemist: Sewell, NJ)

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NGSS Science and Language Shifts in a Diverse Fourth-Grade Classroom

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offer rich opportunities for both science and language learning. This article presents science and language instructional shifts, grounded in the NGSS and contemporary thinking in second language acquisiti...

By Alison Haas, Jennifer Whitten, and Carol Biskupic Knight

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