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Archive: Sponsored Web Seminar: Preparing Students for Engineering Careers, December 7, 2021
High school students spend a lot of time considering what their next steps in life will be. Those interested in engineering careers can find it difficult to gain access to the basics of engineering knowledge before they start college, which can leave...
Journal Article
Building Teacher Professional Learning Infrastructure for Climate Justice Education
By Meredith Lohr, Stacy Meyer, and Deb L. Morrison
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Pedagogical Commitments for Climate Justice Education
By Fikile Nxumalo and Pablo Montes
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Archive: Science Update: Unfold the Universe with NASA’s Webb Space Telescope, January 20, 2022
The Webb Space Telescope has launched! Come learn what’s generating the excitement about Webb, where it is now, and all the amazing new science that can be done with this revolutionary observatory! Webb will explore the first galaxies in the ...
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Three-dimensional learning calls for students to not only learn disciplinary content, but also to engage in the practices and habits of mind of scientists and engineers. Science notebooks are a powerful and flexible tool to support three-dimensional ...
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Archive: Preservice Teachers - Engage with NSTA!, November 9, 2021
Learn about NSTA's digital resources, virtual experiences, online community, and website tools designed to help you build your library, network, content/pedagogical knowledge, and leadership skills. All individuals receive a certificate of partici...
eBook
Social Justice in the Science Classroom: Collected Volume from NSTA Publications (e-book)
Social Justice in the Science Classroom is a compilation of 19 articles from NSTA journals, illustrating successful incorporation of socially-just teaching practices in the science classroom. This volume brings issues, strategies, and methods of addr...
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Students can measure local trees and calculate carbon storage in each tree....
Journal Article
Guest Editorial: Exploring Climate Justice Learning: Visions, Challenges, and Opportunities
By Deb L. Morrison and Philip Bell
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STEM Teaching Tools: Guidance for Justice-Centered Climate Change Teaching and Learning
By Philip Bell and Abby Rhinehart
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Facilitating Emancipatory and Justice-Centered Environmental and Climate Learning
By Pranjali Upadhyay and Rae Jing Han
Journal Article
By David Segura, Daniel Morales-Doyle, Susan Nelson, Amy Levingston, and Karen Canales
Journal Article
Introducing OutSCIder Classroom
Join host Chris Anderson as he explores our incredible National Parks and meets awesome scientists, all while learning how the world around us works! ...
By Chris Anderson
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The Call to Action for Science Education-- released by a committee convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in mid-July and funded by the Carnegie Corporation --identifies effective science education practices an...
Journal
The Science Teacher—November/December 2021
Volume 89, Number 2 Culturally Relevant Science Pedagogy Validating students’ cultural identities in classroom practices—such as understanding and integrating the students’ family makeup, immigration history and experiences, individual ...
Journal
Journal of College Science Teaching—September/October 2021
Volume 51, Number 1 September/October 2021 This issue of JCST focuses on online teaching and the Covid-19 pandemic. Features include an examination of virtual science lessons using the 4E model; a survey of student opinion on the switch to vi...
Web Seminar
Young children come to school with a natural curiosity, along with a collection of ideas, experiences, and interests, that are tailored to the exploratory nature of STEM. Teachers can leverage these students' assets and foster shared classroom experi...
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Shell Science Teaching Award: This award recognizes one outstanding classroom science teacher (K–12) who has had a positive impact on his or her students, school, and community through exemplary classroom science teaching. K–12 classroo...
Web Seminar
Are you a K-12 teacher that works near a Shell asset? If so you could win a science classroom makeover. The Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge Competition recognizes exceptional and innovative science educators for their exemplary approaches t...
Lesson Plan
Journal Article
STEM Teaching Reform: Incremental Pathways
For almost 1,000 years, lecture has been the predominant form of teaching. There has been increasing pressure to abandon lecturing and instead use more active learning strategies. An unfortunate outcome is that didactic lecture remains the dominant f...
By Yunteng He
Journal Article
Preservice Science Teachers Practice Teaching Online through 4E Instructional Model
This article is prepared as part of a “Practice Teaching in Science” course of a teacher education program aiming for developing prospective science teachers’ teaching through inquiry-based instruction involving practices of science and active ...
By Ozden Sengul
Journal Article
The COVID-19 pandemic forced higher-education institutions to close campuses and pivot all face-to-face (F2F) instruction online. This transition to Crisis Distance Education (CDE) was unprecedented in scope and speed as it was implemented globally. ...
By J. Phil Gibson and Kristen Shelton
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Faculty Learning Communities Facilitated the Rapid Pivot to Online Teaching and Learning
Faculty learning communities (FLCs), established prepandemic to disseminate and discuss evidence-based teaching practices as part of an NSF-funded project, Investigating Student Success Using Evidence-Based Strategies-eXpanded (ISSUES-X), proved effe...
By Becky Talyn, Sara J. Callori, Karen Cerwin, Mike Chao, Kimberley R. Cousins, Carol Hood, Sally F. McGill, Anthony E. Metcalf, and Laura Woodney
Journal Article
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are an alternative pedagogical approach to the apprenticeship model for high-impact research immersion experiences. A W.M. Keck-funded Research Immersion Program at a Hispanic-serving institutio...
By Christine Broussard, Margaret Gough Courtney, Sarah Dunn, K. Godde, and Vanessa Preisler
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College instructors faced a rapid transition to remote instruction in spring 2020, and with it a host of new teaching challenges. This qualitative study investigates what 26 college biology instructors learned about students and teaching during this ...
By Tessa Andrews and Kathryn Green
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STEM Scholars’ Sense of Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The purpose of this study was to investigate sense of community (SOC) within a STEM learning community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The STEM learning community that was the setting for this study is funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) S-ST...
By Jennifer McGee and Rahman Tashakkori
Journal Article
In this study, two sections of undergraduate Introductory Anatomy and Physiology taught in the traditional face-to-face format (n = 58) was compared to two hybrid classes (n = 38) using the flipped-classroom model taught by the same instructor. Forma...
By Sanjeeda Jafar and Viji Sitther
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Science and Language Shifts in a Diverse Fourth-Grade Classroom
By Alison Haas, Jennifer Whitten, and Carol Biskupic Knight
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By Kelsey Lipsitz, Fred Stein, Lynn Rankin, Barry Kluger-Bell, and Rachel Jordan
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Motivating Three-Dimensional Learning From Students’ Questions
By Tara A.W. McGill, Gail Housman, and Brian J. Reiser
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Turning on the Three-Dimensional Switch
By Zach Hurdle, Angela Stanford, Katy Nix, and Nick Perry