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Archive: Science Update: An Eclipse 'Double-Header' is Coming this School Year! August 31, 2023

There will be an annular eclipse this fall and a total eclipse next spring visible in the U.S. Join veteran astronomers and educators Dennis Schatz and Andrew Fraknoi to learn more about what's happening, where the eclipses will be visible, how to vi...

Elementary Middle School High School Postsecondary Informal Education Astronomy Earth & Space Science STEM

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Sandy and Dusty Worlds

By Bob Riddle

Middle School Astronomy Earth & Space Science

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Iguanas from Above

By Jill Nugent

Middle School Biology Citizen Science Instructional Materials

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Playing With Garbage

By Jonathan Cade Gilbert and Jerrid Kruse

Middle School Biology Engineering Life Science Teaching Strategies Technology

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The Birds and the Bees, the Flowers and the Trees

By Laura Wheeler, Rita Hagevik, Kathy Cabe Trundle, Michelle Parslow, and Katherine Vela

Middle School 5E Biology Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary NGSS

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The (Trans)Formative Assessment Planning Template

By Caitlin Gailey McClearyCale Fine, Haeyoung Littich, and Maren Getz

Middle School Assessment English Language Learners Equity Inclusion Teaching Strategies

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Engineering for Ecological and Social Justice

By Veronica Cassone McGowan and Todd Campbell

Middle School Biology Citizen Science Climate Change Engineering Environmental Science Instructional Materials Life Science Social Justice

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What Lies Beneath?

By Catherine E. Matthews, Katie Singleton, Manda M. Jackson, Cory A. Bentley, and Heidi Carlone

Middle School Biology Environmental Science Inquiry Life Science

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Why Should We All Embrace Statistical Thinking?

By Kristin Hunter-Thomson

Biology Environmental Science Life Science Literacy

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Ecosystem Dynamics

By Patty McGinnis

Middle School Climate Change Earth & Space Science Environmental Science

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At the Zooseum

By Bonnie Glass, Sara Dail, Nicole Ahn, and Tammy Lee

Biology Crosscutting Concepts Life Science

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Building Better Questions

By Ronald Rinehart and Mason Kuhn

Engineering NGSS Pedagogy Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Technology

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Learning to Teach with Science Representations

By Meredith Park Rogers, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Celeste Nicholas, Dionne Cross Francis, and Joshua Danish

Elementary Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas NGSS Performance Expectations Professional Learning Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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Placemat Instructions

By Sara Willner-Giwerc, Rachel Hsin, Sonia Mody, and Chris Rogers

Engineering Makerspace NGSS Technology

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Q: How Does the Sun’s Heat Get To Us Here on Earth?

By Matt Bobrowsky

Elementary Phenomena Physical Science

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Is It A Change?

By Patrick Brown

Elementary Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas NGSS Performance Expectations Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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Modeling Energy

By Delaney Carone, Ashley Perkins, and Catherine Scott

Elementary Instructional Materials NGSS Physical Science Three-Dimensional Learning

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Come On Feel The Noise

By Ellen Gow, Jerrid Kruse, Susan Wees, Kristy Dee, and Leslie Hernandez

Elementary Inquiry Physical Science Three-Dimensional Learning

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Eco Chess

By Colby Tofel-Grehl, Sarah Braden, Candace Penrod, Laura Wheeler, Tyler Hansen, Andrew Jones, and Clayton Chamberlain

Elementary Interdisciplinary Life Science Physical Science Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

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Let Me Tell You A Story

By Janet Yamaguchi

Disciplinary Core Ideas Physical Science

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Seeing The Light

By Christine Anne Royce

Elementary Literacy NGSS Phenomena Physical Science

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Energy in Its Many Forms

By Heather Pacheco-Guffrey

Elementary Disciplinary Core Ideas NGSS Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

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Leadership Matters!

By Page Keeley

Elementary Administrators Advocacy Leadership

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Solar Power

By Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong

Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Literacy

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Preschoolers “On the Move” with Energy

By Shelly Lynn Counsell

Early Childhood Instructional Materials Physical Science Teaching Strategies

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Energy

“Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.” — Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything ...

By Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn

Elementary Disciplinary Core Ideas Earth & Space Science Life Science Physical Science Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

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Advice to Future Participants From Six Cohorts of an Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Atmospheric Science

Many undergraduates use research internships to gain experience for graduate school. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs involve heavy research and lab work duties, for which students are often unprepared and lack oppo...

By Adam T. Murry, Nan Yuan, and Dean Atkinson

Research STEM Teaching Strategies Technology

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A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Perspectives Toward Learning Assistant–Faculty Relationships

Learning Assistant (LA) programs oversee and support undergraduate instructors and faculty members who work together to facilitate student learning in a variety of classroom settings. The success of an LA program is tied to experiences of the parti...

By Cameron J. Hill, Anthony P. Barrasso, and Kathryn E. Spilios

Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Beyond “See Figure 1”

Visual elements such as graphs, tables, and diagrams are essential components of scientific writing. Although scientific writing textbooks and guides often contain information on how to design such visuals, little has been written on how to effecti...

By Cary Moskovitz

Postsecondary Literacy Teaching Strategies

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How Do Students Interact With the Primary Scientific Literature in an Undergraduate Science Program?

The ability to read, understand, and interpret primary scientific literature is an essential skill for undergraduate students in science. This study aimed to provide a detailed understanding of how second- and third-year undergraduate students in a...

By Yi Hou, Heather Verkade, Jan van Driel

Pre-service Teachers Biology Literacy Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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Assessment of Demographic Biases Associated With the Ground Rules System in a Large Undergraduate Engineering Course

Despite more women and underrepresented students entering engineering, there are still gaps in achievement. A potential remedy is to establish equitable team dynamics during groupwork. Groupware systems have been implemented in the workforce and, r...

By Christine King, Kameryn Denaro, and Brian Sato

Advocacy Engineering Equity Teaching Strategies

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Newspaper Physics for First-Year College Students

This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in the daily newspapers and general...

By E. J. Bahng, John Hauptman, and Jennifer Lowery

Literacy News Physics Teaching Strategies

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The Tachyon Nexus

This article describes a website called The Tachyon Nexus (no relation to Tachyon Nexus Inc.), which includes reliable information about the controversial subjects of time travel and faster-than-light particles known as tachyons. This compendium of...

By Robert Ehrlich

Interdisciplinary Physics

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Preservice Teachers’ Meaningful Science Learning

This article describes how preservice elementary teachers learn about the nature of science and develop scientific literacy through a collaborative project that prepares them to design meaningful learning experiences for students. The Life’s Repl...

By Lizzette M. Velázquez Rivera and Isaris R. Quiñones Pérez

Environmental Science Inquiry Literacy Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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Using a Game to Teach Invasive Species Spread and Management

Invasive species are a major ecological and economic problem at the global scale, and education plays a major role in raising awareness and combating these species’ future spread. There are complex management and economic issues associated with p...

By Joshua Lord

Biology Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Life Science Professional Learning

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Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19

Undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are tasked with instructing undergraduate courses with little to no professional development (PD). To better develop PD opportunities, it is important to understand the benefits of improving TAs�...

By Cody Smith, Deepika Menon, Annette Wierzbicki, and Jenny Dauer

Administration New Science Teachers Pedagogy Professional Learning STEM

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The Role of Question-Asking in Mentoring Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate research is a high-impact educational practice for which effective mentoring has been identified as a key factor in determining its success. Some researchers have argued that effective mentors help increase students’ independence an...

By Sara L. Johnson and George M. Bodner

Inquiry Preservice Science Education Research Teacher Preparation