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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...

Postsecondary High School Informal Education Engineering Mathematics STEM Technology

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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 ...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Astronomy Chemistry Computer Science Earth & Space Science Engineering Physics STEM Technology

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Archive: Book Beat Live! Engaging Students in Three-Dimensional Learning with Science Notebooks, November 17, 2021

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 ...

Middle School Elementary High School Postsecondary General Science

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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...

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Social Justice in the Science Classroom: Collected Volume from NSTA Publications (e-book)

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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...

Connected Science Learning September-October 2021

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Connected Science Learning September-October 2021

Volume 3, Issue 5 Climate Change ...

Informal Education STEM

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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

Middle School High School Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Interdisciplinary Phenomena

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Archive: Call to Action for Science Education: Building Opportunity for the Future, September 27, 2021

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...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Preschool General Science

The Science Teacher—November/December 2021

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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 of College Science Teaching—September/October 2021

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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...

Postsecondary Preservice Science Education Research Teacher Preparation

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Archive: Book Beat Live! Integrating STEM Teaching and Learning into the K-2 Classroom, October 20, 2021

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...

Early Childhood Elementary STEM

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Archive: November 2021: Developing a Competitive Application for Shell Teaching Awards, November 3, 2021

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...

Middle School Elementary High School General Science

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Archive: October 2021: Developing a Competitive Application for the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge, October 21, 2021

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...

Middle School Elementary High School General Science

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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

Pedagogy Preservice Science Education Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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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

5E Instructional Materials Pedagogy Research Teacher Preparation

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Introductory Biology Students’ Opinions on the Pivot to Crisis Distance Education in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

Distance Learning Instructional Materials Preservice Science Education Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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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

Instructional Materials New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences Performance Following the Transition to Remote Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

Postsecondary New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies Technology

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Pandemic-Inspired Insights

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

Postsecondary Preservice Science Education Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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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

Postsecondary Research STEM Teacher Preparation

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Comparison of Student Outcomes and Evaluations in Hybrid Versus Face-to-Face Anatomy and Physiology I Courses

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

Preservice Science Education Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Not Your Average Parachute

By Kelsey Lipsitz, Fred Stein, Lynn Rankin, Barry Kluger-Bell, and Rachel Jordan

Elementary Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Mesozoic Measurement

By Laura B. Schneider and Angelique Kelly

Elementary 5E Earth & Space Science Pedagogy Three-Dimensional Learning

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