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NSTA Daily Do: Why Are the Stars Disappearing?

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Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Avoiding Data and Science Misinformation in Today’s Messy Media Landscape, October 27, 2020

This panel presentation and discussion will explore the role media play in building scientific and mathematical understanding and the impact misinformation is having on how young people navigate their roles as both students and citizens.  The di...

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Why does the ping pong ball move?

Early Childhood Crosscutting Concepts Is Lesson Plan NGSS Phenomena Physical Science Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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Why doesn't the snow melt?

High School Crosscutting Concepts Is Lesson Plan NGSS Phenomena Physical Science Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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Archive: Science Update: The Unknown World of Deep-Sea Corals, December 3, 2020

Deep-sea corals live in some of the least studied ecosystems on the planet, yet provide crucial support for fisheries and a number of other ecosystem services. This presentation, delivered by Heather Coleman, Coordinator of the Deep Sea Coral Re...

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Why Does it Sizzle?

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Why Do Earthquakes Occur Where They Do?

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How Are Cancer Cells Different From Normal Cells?

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Why Are The Rusty Patched Bumble Bees Disappearing?

Middle School Biology Citizen Science Is Lesson Plan Life Science NGSS Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Taking Familiar Digital Tools to the Next Level: Google Slides and Docs, October 13, 2020

Whether in teaching and learning in a classroom or virtual space, digital tools can be leveraged as a means for students to share ideas, evaluate competing ideas, and give and receive critique. This month’s focus is Google Slides and Docs. Join us ...

Middle School Elementary High School Postsecondary General Science

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Archive: Science Update: The Cosmic Shooting Gallery, November 19, 2020

Stuff hits the Earth all the time, but fortunately we have a nice thick warm atmosphere that vaporizes everything smaller than an SUV. Spacecraft have to be specially engineered to survive reentry, and they are only going a fraction of typical interp...

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

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How Do Population Shifts Affect the Ecosystem?

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Why Do We See Two Mountain Ranges?

Middle School Crosscutting Concepts Is Lesson Plan NGSS Phenomena Physical Science Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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Equity Strategies: Community Hosts and Design Thinking in a Middle School Summer Camp

By Adam Talamantes

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What Makes Them Tick? Middle School Data Science Explorations of Ticks and Lyme Disease

By Meggie Harvey, Jan Mokros, Jacob Sagrans, and Christine Voyer

Middle School Informal Education Instructional Materials STEM Technology

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How Do Hooved, Herding Herbivores Help the Soil?

Elementary Climate Change Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Is Lesson Plan Life Science NGSS Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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When Can We See Different Objects in the Sky?

Middle School Elementary Earth & Space Science Is Lesson Plan NGSS Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices

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Taking Action in STEM Learning

By Erica Ahlgren and Mallory Tuominen

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Formative Assessment of English Language Proficiency in the Science Classroom

In a linguistically diverse fourth-grade classroom, students carry out an investigation to answer the lesson question: How are we able to see objects? Working collaboratively in groups, students are given a lidded box with an eye hole and a flap. Stu...

By Okhee Lee and Rita Januszyk

Assessment Literacy NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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Integrating Crosscutting Concepts into Science Instruction

By Marcelle Goggins, Alison Haas, Scott Grapin, Lorena Llosa, and Okhee Lee

Early Childhood Elementary Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum NGSS

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Why Do Surfaces Warm Differently?

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Beyond General-Purpose Talk Moves

By Scott Grapin, Alison Haas, Marcelle Goggins, Lorena Llosa, and Okhee Lee

Early Childhood Elementary Literacy Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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How Were the Scablands Formed?

By Rita Januszyk and Alison Haas

Elementary Earth & Space Science Instructional Materials Is Lesson Plan

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Debris Tracker

By Jill Nugent

Middle School Citizen Science Environmental Science Life Science

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The Red Issue

By Bob Riddle

Middle School Astronomy Earth & Space Science

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Exploring Acceleration

By Kelly Rose Kosa and Rommel J. Miranda

Middle School 5E Physical Science

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Why Does the Moon Look Like That Again?

By Rebecca Katsh-Singer and Chris Rogers

Middle School Assessment Astronomy Earth & Space Science

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Mapping Stakeholders

By Yun-Wen Chan and Michelle Forsythe

Middle School Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Life Science Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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Integrating the Five Practices and Model-Based Inquiry to Facilitate Meaningful Science Discourse

By Danielle K. Ross and Allison Davidson

Middle School Inquiry NGSS Phenomena

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Community Lead-Ers

By Isabelle Nguyen, Athulya Johnson, Andrew Kapral, and Abel Chacko

Middle School Chemistry Safety STEM

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Case Studies in Environmental Justice

By Elizabeth Schibuk and Melissa Psallidas

Equity Inclusion

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Why Should We Prepare for Earthquakes?

High School Citizen Science Earth & Space Science Is Lesson Plan NGSS Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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Creating a New Environment for Science Learning

By Denise Wright

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Whole-Class Discussion Strategies That Engage Students and Enhance Understanding

By Katie Coppens

Middle School Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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Creating Podcasts as Science Learning

By Shakuntala D. Gopal, Sara Clarke-Vivier, Andrew D. Coppens, Sameer Honwad, Taylor R. Lindsay, Caitlin Burnett, Jordan Garrett, Madhura Niphadkar-Bandekar, and Shraddha Rangnekar

Middle School Climate Change NGSS Teaching Strategies Technology

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Straight From the Headlines

By Patty McGinnis

Middle School Advocacy Pedagogy