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Curious about integrating sustainability and renewable energy concepts into your high school science curriculum? Join Vernier Science Education experts Fran Poodry, Dr. Melissa Hill, and Colleen McDaniel as they showcase engaging investigations that ...
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Flight of the Pollinators ClassPack
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Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks! • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA Science Kit Services! Now offering ...
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Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks! • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA Science Kit Services! Now offering ...
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Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks! • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA Science Kit Services! Now offering ...
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Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks! • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA Science Kit Services! Now offering ...
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Melting and Freezing ClassPack
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Imaginative Inventions ClassPack
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Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks! • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA Science Kit Services! Now offering ...
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Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks! • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA Science Kit Services! Now offering ...
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Be a Friend to Trees ClassPack
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Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? ClassPack
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The Handiest Things ClassPack: Grade K
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Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: Space Weather on Our Approach to Solar Max, August 15, 2024
Join us on Thursday, August 15, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about space weather from NASA. In this web seminar, we will delve into the recent solar storm that illuminated the skies with stunning auroras across North America on May 10t...
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Archive: Next Generation Science Standards: A Decade of Invigorating Implementation, October 9, 2024
In the last decade since the publication of A Framework for K-12 Science Education (National Research Council, 2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), 20 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the NGSS. Most other states hav...
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Archive: FA24: Reviewing a Proposal for NSTA Conferences, October 2, 2024
During this web seminar, the conference team will guide you through the process of reviewing and giving feedback, ensuring you have all the tools you need to provide a strong evaluation for each conference proposal.During this program participants wi...
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Are you planning to submit a session, poster, or workshop proposal for educator sessions at the National Conference on Science Education? NSTA conferences offer valuable experiences that place the needs of educators front and center, providing an inv...
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GenomeTrakr is a whole genome sequencing (WGS) tool used to identify foodborne pathogens and reduce foodborne illness. GenomeTrakr is the first distributed network of labs using WGS to identify pathogens. It consists of several labs in the United Sta...
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Collaborative Learning and Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary
Editor's Corner...
By Ann Haley Mackenzie
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Fostering Inclusive Collaboration: Strategies to Disrupt Inequities in Student Groupwork
This paper examines challenges in student groupwork, emphasizing the impact of collaborative learning dynamics on outcomes. Addressing uneven participation and unintentional exclusion, it explores nuanced aspects of perceived student status, revealin...
By Anna Karina Monteiro, Michele Cheyne, and Lauren Kline
Journal Article
Group Learning Routines as a tool to build equitable learning experiences in a Biology classroom
The vision behind the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is that all students engage in explaining phenomena and designing solutions with three-dimensional learning. Authentic sensemaking involves opportunities for learners to share, analyze, a...
By Elizabeth Chatham, Joy Otibu, and Andrea Sau
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Early Retirement: Making Sense of Patterns in Historical Data of Retired Hurricanes
Long after a hurricane passes over and through any region or coastal area, the memories of it often linger. There may be visual reminders of the storm and the day lives may have been changed, or lost, forever. Hurricanes can be long-lived storms. The...
By Christopher Roemmele, Joby Hilliker, and Victoria Clayton
Journal Article
This lesson allows students to engage in sense-making through the cross-cutting analysis of the form and function of pollen, carried by pollinators. Students observe the microscopic features of pollen and how insects transport these fine, but critica...
By Laura Wheeler, Rita Hagevik, and Kathy Cabe Trundle
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Constructive student roles for authentic collaboration in engineering design challenges
Student roles can promote collaboration and individual accountability in groups during engineering design challenges. However, student disengagement may occur if students do not perceive value in their roles. We introduce four distinct roles—qualit...
By Andrew Kipp and Gustavo Perez
Journal Article
Two modules were designed for high school science students to investigate the performance of a rain garden installed on school property. The rain garden, a green infrastructure system which allows soil infiltration, was installed to reduce impacts to...
By Lauren Brase, Robert Ford, Amy Parker, Heather Mayfield, Adam Lehmann, and Sarah Meadows
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Talk it Out! Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment with Dialogues
Getting ALL students involved in a class can be a difficult task. Getting students EXCITED about reading, writing, and learning can be an even MORE difficult task. Fortunately, the use of Dialogues is an easy strategy that any teacher can implement...
By Anne Levendusky and Gregory Bisbee