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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?

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Why Is Our Fruit Turning Brown?

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

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How Do Our Noses Smell Things?

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

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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

Middle School Elementary Informal Education Aerospace Careers Curriculum Inclusion Literacy News STEM

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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

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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

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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

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Dealing With Disasters Through Emergency Response Teen Science Cafés

According to a 2012 United Nations report, many countries prioritize children’s learning about the genesis, prevention, and mitigation of natural disasters (Selby and Kagawa 2012); the United States, however, falls behind with respect to disaster...

By Jan Mokros, Michelle Hall, and Michael Mayhew

Informal Education Careers

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Partnering to Develop a Coordinated Engineering Education Program Across Schools, Museum Field Trips, and Afterschool Programs

Engineering Explorations are curriculum modules that engage children across contexts in learning about science and engineering. We used them to leverage multiple education sectors (K–12 schools, museums, higher education, and afterschool programs...

By Danielle B. Harlow, Ron Skinner, Tarah Connolly, and Alexandria Muller

Informal Education Curriculum Engineering

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The SciGirls Strategies

Middle school is a critical time for fostering girls’ interest in science, as it is during these years that girls begin to identify with their strengths and weaknesses and start to decide what kind of person to be (Allen and Eisenhart 2017; Carlo...

By Alicia Santiago, Kristin Pederson, and Rita Karl

Informal Education Equity Inclusion STEM Teaching Strategies