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Archive: Case Studies from Connected Science Learning: Transformative Science Learning through Museum-School Collaboration, May 16, 2022

Strategic partnerships that bring together schools and other organizations–such as museums–have the potential to transform learning in ways that neither partner can accomplish alone. Explore the process, products, and outcomes of such collaborati...

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Freebies for Science and STEM Teachers/From the Field, April 12, 2022

By Debra Shapiro

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Growing Understanding From a SPARK

By Deborah Hanuscin, Abby Whatley, Bridget Dahlman-Oeth, Paola Sanchez, Benjamin Dixon, and Daniel Savage

Elementary Informal Education Pre-service Teachers Curriculum NGSS Physical Science Science and Engineering Practices

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Archive: Science Update: Getting Ready for Two Spectacular Solar Eclipses in North America, October 20, 2022

The last visible eclipses in the continental U.S. until 2045 will be on Saturday, October 14, 2023 and Monday, April 8, 2024. While the annular eclipse (October 2023) and total eclipse (April 2024) will only be visible in a narrow band about 100 mile...

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Is It Over Yet?

By Beth Murphy

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Rethinking Online Science Learning

By Kirsten R. Butcher, Madlyn Larson, McKenna Lane, and Mitchell J. Power

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Pivoting During a Pandemic

By Nicole Freidenfelds, Laura Cisneros, Amy Cabaniss, Rebecca Colby, Madeleine Meadows-McDonnell, Todd Campbell, Chester Arnold, Cary Chadwick, David Dickson, David Moss, Jonathan Simmons, Ankit Singh, and John Volin

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Transitioning an In-Person Elementary STEM After-School Program to Distance Learning During COVID-19

By Brooke McMahon, Jasmin Sanchez, Emma Case, Lindsay Huerta, W. Martin Kast, and Dieuwertje J. Kast

Elementary Informal Education Equity NGSS Three-Dimensional Learning

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Building a New Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Partnership Through Virtual Connections

This article presents a synopsis of an interdisciplinary literacy-science, cross-country, fully remote service-learning (S-L) project prompted by and executed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article shares discussions, analyses, a...

By Lauren E. Burrow, Tonya D. Jeffery, Brian S. Wuertz, and Shelby J. Gull

Informal Education Postsecondary Biology Interdisciplinary Life Science Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies Technology

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Science Isn’t for Me, or Is It?

By Alison Mercier and Heidi B. Carlone

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Archive: Let’s Talk About How to get Published in Science Scope! May 3, 2022

Science Scope is an award-winning, peer-reviewed, practitioner's journal for grade 6–8 teachers, university faculty responsible for teacher preparation, and state and district science, supervisors and leaders....

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Freebies for Science Teachers/From the Field March 8, 2022

By Debra Shapiro

Middle School Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Preschool Biology Earth & Space Science Engineering Environmental Science Equity General Science Inclusion Inquiry Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans Life Science Literacy Mathematics News Professional Learning Science and Engineering Practices Social Justice STEM Teaching Strategies Technology

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Archive: Science Update: Sea Level Rise – What it is; Why it's such a problem; What we can do about it, April 7, 2022

Every day NOAA scientists, technicians, and engineers work to monitor, understand, and predict environmental threats facing our nation. Among the most serious of these is sea level rise. Rising sea levels are pushin...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Climate Change Computer Science Earth & Space Science Engineering Environmental Science STEM Technology

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Citizen Science in Unexpected Places

By Safiya Sabir

Informal Education Biology Citizen Science Environmental Science Life Science STEM Technology

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Critical Consciousness in Engineering for Sustainable Communities

By Geling Xu, Aerin Benavides, Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan, Selena Bliesener, Gina DiFrancesco, and Scott Calabrese Barton

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