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Teacher Tip Tuesday: AI in Action: Tools for the Science Classroom, February 11, 2025

AI is rapidly transforming the landscape & will soon be a regular part of your students' everyday experiences. Secondary teachers will learn about different tools that can be used to transform assignments and create opportunities for students to ...

High School Middle School General Science Technology

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

The Sun is constantly churning and bubbling. In addition to the radiation that supports life on Earth, the Sun often releases particles energetic enough to harm Earth-based and near-Earth assets. Just like meteorologists are able to interpret weather...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Preschool Astronomy Biology Chemistry Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Life Science STEM

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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 ...

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

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Archive: Science Update: Making a Marine Debris "MAP": Collecting Marine Debris Data with NOAA's Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Project, September 18, 2025

Marine debris is a widespread pollution problem in our ocean and waterways. It can harm wildlife, habitats, and our economy. This issue is human-caused, but it also has human solutions. One of the best tools we have to combat marine debris is underst...

Preschool Elementary Middle School High School Postsecondary Informal Education Biology Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Life Science STEM

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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

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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

Flipped Science Classrooms and the Cornell Note-Taking Method

Journal Article

Flipped Science Classrooms and the Cornell Note-Taking Method

The flipped classroom is a relatively new innovation in teaching middle school science; however, students often struggle with taking notes that provide metacognitive cues and reinforce understanding. This paper describes the structure of a flipped mi...

By Edward Miller, Angela Kelly

Middle School Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Considering Multiple Perspectives and Scientific Consensus: Information Literacy in the Science Classroom

Journal Article

Considering Multiple Perspectives and Scientific Consensus: Information Literacy in the Science Classroom

Many young people learn about scientific topics online, yet middle school students have trouble identifying where scientific information comes from and what characterizes good sources of scientific information online. In this article, we discuss five...

By Sara Montgomery, Angela Kohnen, Christine Wusylko

Middle School Interdisciplinary Literacy Multicultural

Next Time You See a Snowflake

NSTA Kids

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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