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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an Earth material, rocks. The probe is designed to determine whether students can distinguish between humanmade, “rocklike” materials and geologically formed rock materials...

By Page Keeley

Elementary Assessment Earth & Space Science

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Science Scope—November/December 2022

November/December 2022 Volume 46, Number 2 Three-Dimensional Learning The  Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) call for three-dimensional learning, or the intentional integration of disciplinary core ideas (DCIs), crosscutting co...

Web Seminar

Archive: Science Update: From Talking Trash to Taking Action: The Science of Marine Debris, April 20, 2023

Our oceans are filled with items that do not belong there. Huge amounts of plastics, metals, rubber, textiles, lost fishing gear, abandoned vessels, and many more items enter the marine environment every day. This makes marine debris one of the most ...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Chemistry Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Life Science STEM

Web Seminar

Archive: Science Update: Food Agriculture – The Plant Scientist’s Toolbox, March 9, 2023

Humans have used a variety of ways to modify food crops to suit our needs and tastes for more than 10,000 years. Over this time, the plant scientists’ toolbox has grown: first with “traditional” tools (like cross-breeding, selective breeding, a...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Biology Chemistry Climate Change Environmental Science Life Science STEM

Web Seminar

Archive: Book Beat Live! The 2023 Outstanding STEM Books List: Ignite Students’ Interest in Science and Engineering! What’s on your Holiday Gift List? December 13, 2022

How do we prepare 21st-century kids for challenges and jobs that we currently cannot even describe? The Best STEM Books can help by celebrating convergent and divergent thinking, analysis and creativity, persistence, and the sheer joy of figuring thi...

Middle School Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science STEM

Journal Article

Exploring Natural Disasters through Primary Sources

By Cheryl Lederle and Stacie Moats

High School Climate Change Earth & Space Science Literacy Phenomena

Journal Article

Geologist

By Luba Vangelova

High School Careers Earth & Space Science

Journal Article

Using Teacher Talk Moves to Help Students Talk Like Scientists

By Kraig A. Wray, Scott McDonald, Hee-Sun Lee, and Amy Pallant