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NSTA Press Book

Human Impacts on Our Climate, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School

New in 2020!What if you could challenge your sixth graders to come up with a way to help tackle climate change in their own community? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Human Impacts on Our Climate outlines a journe...

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How Do Seeds Get Around?

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What Happened to Our Ice?

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Why Do They Visit the Flower?

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How Can Properties Help Solve Problems?

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How Are They Similar and Different?

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How Do We Know What Isopods Do?

Elementary Informal Education Disciplinary Core Ideas Is Lesson Plan Life Science NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

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Why Is Our Fruit Turning Brown?

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How Do Our Noses Smell Things?

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What Can I Observe in the Outdoors?

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Reports Article

Life Skills, Literacy, and STEM

By Debra Shapiro

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Journal Article

Trust the Process

Tell the story of an important event that happened in your family. Tell the story of a place that is important to your family. Tell the story of how your family or the world will change in 10 years....

By Carrie Tzou, Daniel Rother, Ashley Braun, Elizabeth Starks, Meixi Ng, Enrique Suárez, Amanda Rambayon, Philip Bell, Don LaBonte, Amy Twito, Shawn Peterson, Sara Marie Ortiz, and Megan Bang

Informal Education Technology

Journal Article

Wings Over Water

The Wings Over Water (WOW) collaboration began with ospreys....

By Allison De Jong, Jenélle Dowling, Erick Greene, and Sharon Leigh Miles

Informal Education

Journal Article

Why Collaborate?

As a Connected Science Learning reader, you already know that collaboration is what this journal is all about. We strive to publish articles that highlight ways different organizations come together to connect in-school STEM (science, technology, e...

By Beth Murphy

Informal Education Professional Learning old STEM

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A Tale of Two Partnership Models

Engaging in science at an early age cultivates foundational mindsets and practices for future learning, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and curiosity (Hadani and Rood 2018; McClure et al. 2017). Science learning can be robust for young ...

By Jenny Ingber, Jacqueline Horgan, and Veena Vasudevan

Informal Education