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Journal Article

Teacher to Teacher: Classroom Strategies for Analyzing and Interpreting Graph Data

This column provides practical advice from your peers....

Journal Article

Focus on Physics: The Color Black

Is the color black simply the absence of light or something more?...

Journal Article

Scope on the Skies: Virtual Space Exploration

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This issue looks at how virtual reality and augmented reality are aiding space exploration....

Journal Article

Magnets in Water

By Page Keeley

Journal Article

Deriving Ohm's Law Using a Guided-Inquiry Investigation

Derive the mathematical relationship between voltage and a current flowing through a resistor....

Book Chapter

Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data (Book Sample)

If you think of science as a puzzle, you’ll see that data is a key to unlocking it. Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data touches on the world’s many riddles—from how we see to what’s at the bottom of the ocean. It shares how scientis...

Book Chapter

The Beaks of Birds (Book sample)

Come along on a tour of the wonderful world of birds and their beaks. This book is the story of a child and two grown-up friends on a jaunt across their yard, in a park, past a pond, and through the pages of a photo album. Like them, you’ll find yo...

Journal Article

Take a Fresh Look at Connected Science Learning

Editor Dennis Schatz welcomes you to the latest issue of Connected Science Learning, focused on STEM Learning Through Afterschool Experiences, and introduces the journal’s incoming Field Editor, Beth Murphy.    ...

By Dennis Schatz

Informal Education

Journal

Connected Science Learning October-December 2018

Volume 1, Issue 8 STEM Learning Connected to Afterschool Settings ...

Informal Education

Interactive E-book Kids

Be a Sky Sleuth

How can patterns be used to predict the positions of the Sun, Moon, and stars? The Be a Sky Sleuth e-book helps students figure out the answer to this question by following two students, Ana and Zane, who call themselves the Sky Sleuths. The Sky Sleu...

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Virtual Conference

Archive: Embracing STEM, December 1, 2018

Science is ultimately about explaining the phenomena that occur in the world around us. Recent reforms in science education have focused on how phenomena should be used during instruction. This conference will focus on how using phenomena effectively...