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Archive Science Update: Energy: The Push From Non-Renewable to Renewable Sources, April 24, 2025

The global energy demand has increased nearly exponentially in the last century and is projected to increase at a similar rate in the future. Yet the finite qualities of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions make many non-renewable energy sources (including...

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Science Update: Space Weather: The Sun, Earth, and You, December 4, 2025

Join us on Thursday, December 4, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about impending solar events and their potential impacts on Earth....

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Archive Science Update: Ocean and Coastal Acidification: Building Community Resilience to Our Changing Ocean, March 13, 2025

The ocean acts like a sponge, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Increased absorption by the ocean causes changes to our ocean's chemistry from pole to pole. This is known as ocean acidification. Ocean acidification has regional and local ...

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Archive: Science Update: Exploring the Applications of Low Earth Orbit Observations, May 8, 2025

The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is a joint mission between NOAA and NASA that observes Earth and provides critical data for weather forecasting in addition to many other climate change, agriculture, aviation, and disaster monitoring applicati...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Preschool Climate Change Earth & Space Science Environmental Science STEM

Learning with AI: The K-12 Teacher’s Guide to a New Era of Human Learning

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Learning with AI: The K-12 Teacher’s Guide to a New Era of Human Learning

Unlock the Future of Education with "Learning with AI" Discover how artificial intelligence is transforming education with "Learning with AI," a pivotal co-publication from Johns Hopkins University Press and the National Science Teaching Assoc...

By Joan Monahan Watson

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Archive Science Update: The Wonderful World of Plasma Physics: From the Birth of Stars to Building Cell Phones, February 20, 2025

What is inside our sun and other stars? What fills up the interstellar space? What is lightning? Trying to answer similar questions that come to the curious mind expanded our understanding of what happens to matter at high enough ...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Astronomy Earth & Space Science Physical Science Physics STEM

Next Time You See a Snowflake

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Next Time You See a Snowflake

Click here to view video of Next Time You See a Snowflake This book will have you seeing snowflakes in a whole new way. You’ll learn about the science of snowflakes – how they form, why they are six-sided, what conditions are necessary for the...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Mathematics STEM 5E Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials Inquiry NGSS Phenomena Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy New Science Teachers Sensemaking

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