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Archive: Science Update: Food Agriculture – The Plant Scientist’s Toolbox, March 9, 2023
Humans have used a variety of ways to modify food crops to suit our needs and tastes for more than 10,000 years. Over this time, the plant scientists’ toolbox has grown: first with “traditional” tools (like cross-breeding, selective breeding, a...
Web Seminar
How do we prepare 21st-century kids for challenges and jobs that we currently cannot even describe? The Best STEM Books can help by celebrating convergent and divergent thinking, analysis and creativity, persistence, and the sheer joy of figuring thi...
Blog Post
Integrating Science, Language, and Computational Thinking With Multilingual Learners
By Scott E. Grapin, Alison Haas, Erin Rasmussen, and Okhee Lee
Journal Article
Using Summary Tables to Support Students’ Explanations of Science Phenomena
By Kraig A. Wray, Jonathan D. McCausland, Scott McDonald, Amy Pallant, and Hee-Sun Lee
Journal Article
Reimagining Science Lessons Through Translanguaging
By Sage Andersen, Karina Méndez Pérez, and María González-Howard
Journal Article
Bringing the Ethical Debate to Life
By Deena L. Gould, Tyler Eglen, Tawnya Brusstar, Gene Moran, Tamara Merritt, and Ruth Wylie
Journal Article
Oh Deer! Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Inquiry-Based Lessons With English Language Learners
By Sissy S. Wong, Jie Zhang, Heather Domjan
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: State of the Climate 2022, January 19, 2023
The past several years have seen too many weather and climate extremes to count, from record-obliterating heat waves to tremendous rainfall events to terrifyingly strong tropical cyclones. What can scientists say about how weather and climate extreme...
Web Seminar
Education research, policy, and practice with minoritized student groups were traditionally framed in terms of what the students were lacking and how to fix this problem (a deficit-oriented view). In recent years, there have been growing efforts to l...
Web Seminar
Education research, policy, and practice with minoritized student groups were traditionally framed in terms of what the students were lacking and how to fix this problem (a deficit-oriented view). In recent years, there have been growing efforts to l...