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Be a Winner! A Science Teacher’s Guide to Writing Successful Grant Proposals (e-book)
Be a Winner! is your chance to learn from veteran science teachers about the secrets to successful grant writing. Formatted as a handy workbook, this practical book takes you step by step through the writing process. You’ll learn the top 10 reasons...
Book Chapter
Creative Writing in Science: Activities That Inspire (Book Sample)
Do you ever feel like your science classes could use a shot of imagination? Boost the creativity quotient by assigning a travel blog about the digestive system, a packing list for the planets, or an interview with an atom. You’ll inspire students t...
Journal
Connected Science Learning March 2016
Volume 1, Issue 1 Successful Formal-Informal Science Education Collaborations ...
eBook
The Feedback Loop: Using Formative Assessment Data for Science Teaching and Learning (e-book)
What really helps your students learn science: Labs? Group work? Certain types of problems or test questions? Something you never even thought about? Find out with data that go way beyond what standardized test scores tell you. The Feedback Loop desc...
eBook
If you’re new to formative assessment probes, you’ll love the latest book in the bestselling Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series. Authors Page Keeley and Laura Tucker give you 32 engaging questions, or probes, that can reveal what your stu...
Book Chapter
What really helps your students learn science: Labs? Group work? Certain types of problems or test questions? Something you never even thought about? Find out with data that go way beyond what standardized test scores tell you. The Feedback Loop desc...
eBook
Science Learning in the Early Years: Activities for PreK-2 (e-book)
At first glance, you can see the value of Science Learning in the Early Years because it provides you with both 40-plus classroom activities and an understanding of how to use them with young students. The book shows you how to go beyond demonstratio...
Journal Article
STEM Smart meetings bring together educators, advocates, policy makers, and STEM thought leaders. The resulting Briefs allow all educators to learn about the meetings’ valuable takeaways. ...
By Barbara Brauner Berns
Journal Article
Science Club is a new, mentor-based after-school program for underserved middle school youth. It is designed to address the gaps described above by connecting in-school and out-of-school learning. Through weekly, inquiry-based, small-group instructio...
By Michael Kennedy, Rebecca Daugherty, Cecilia Garibay, Camellia Sanford, Jennifer Koerner, Jennifer Lewin, and Rosemary Braun
Journal Article
When Spider Webs Unite, They Can Tie Up a Lion
Urban Advantage Denver builds collaboration between formal and informal education partners to meet a common challenge: filling the opportunity gap for low-income, Latino, and African American students to close their growing achievement gap within for...
By Eric Godoy, and Patricia Kincaid
Journal Article
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and the Omaha Public School District partnered to form the Zoo Academy, a school-within-a-zoo model that relies on the successful collaboration between an informal science education organization and a school ...
By Elizabeth Mulkerrin
Journal Article
Full STEM Ahead: Afterschool Programs Step Up as Key Partners in STEM Education, describes parental attitudes and perceptions of STEM programming in their child’s after-school setting. ...
By Anita Krishnamurthi
Journal Article
Bridging Neuroscience and Education Through Museum-School Partnerships
The Franklin Institute provides programs that help educators of all disciplines understand the key ideas and recommendations for enhanced teaching practices based on new research from the field of neuroscience. ...
By Dale McCreedy, Jayatri Das, and Julia Skolnik
Journal Article
CSL editor Dennis Schatz introduces the first journal dedicated to bridging in-school and out-of-school science education. ...
By Dennis Schatz
Journal Article
Working at the Intersections of Formal and Informal Science and Literacy Education
The National Writing Project provides professional development, develops resources, generates research, and works to improve the teaching of writing and learning in schools and communities. ...
By Becky Carroll and Tanya Baker
Journal Article
Connected Science Learning is a journal around which all science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educators can gather. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) have partnere...
By Anthony (Bud) Rock, and David L. Evans
Journal Article
Taking an Ecosystem Approach to STEM Learning
Explore the Synergies project, a case study for how to comprehensively integrate three exemplary teaching practices into a STEM-learning ecosystem. ...
By John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking, Nancy Staus, Jennifer Wyld, Deborah Bailey, and William Penuel
Journal Article
NASA Science Mission Directorate Diversity Resources
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) explores the Earth, the Sun, our solar system, the galaxy and beyond through four SMD divisions: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science and Astrophysics. Alongside NASA scientists, teams of educati...
By Bonnie Meinke and Nancy Ali
Journal Article
STEM Pathways is a collaboration between five Minnesota informal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education organizations—The Bakken Museum, Bell Museum of Natural History, Minnesota Zoo, STARBASE Minnesota, and ...
By Abby Moore, Beth Murphy, Melanie Peters, and Steven Walvig
Journal Article
The science education community is buzzing about STEM learning ecosystems, ecologies of learning, and ecological perspectives on learning. You may not know it, but if your teaching involves building on young people’s prior knowledge or making conne...
By Bronwyn Bevan