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Science Shorts: Tangling With Hair
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You're probably familiar with the fairy tale of Rapunzel and how her prince climbed her golden locks to her tower. In this month's activity, your students will be surprised to find that--though not suitable as a ladder…
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Archive: Science Update: Exploring Seamounts of the Atlantic and Pacific, June 23, 2022
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Our ocean is filled with numerous seamounts, guyots, and other volcanic features that profoundly influence tectonics, ecosystems, and ocean currents. NOAA Ocean Exploration seeks to characterize these features and their…
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Archive: Book Beat Live! Social Justice in the Science Classroom, March 16, 2022
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Science classes are diverse places where students bring many identities to the learning experiences being shared by their science teachers. All students bring different lived experiences to our classrooms. It is…
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Archive: Science Update: Underwater Sound in our National Marine Sanctuaries, June 2, 2022
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SanctSound is a three-year project, managed by NOAA and the U.S. Navy, to better understand underwater sound within our national marine sanctuaries. The goal of the SanctSound project is to understand how sound varies…
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Archive: Science Update: NOAA - Observing and Understanding Earth Systems, November 3, 2022
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Together we will explore all the places where we can find NOAA employees and how this federal agency allows us to observe and understand Earth systems - from the surface of the Sun to the depths of the Ocean. Do not…
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Want a bite-size way to present at NSTA? Come learn about the two new, low-stress presentation options at NSTA Chicago and dip your toes into sharing your work. You’ll learn tips from the NSTA…
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Sponsored Archive: The Power of High Quality Instructional Materials in Middle School, May 12, 2022
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It is complex work to create developmentally appropriate learning sequences that meet the NGSS’ expectations for phenomena-based storylines that address all three dimensions! Research-based and field-tested…
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Archive: Sponsored Web Seminar: Authentic Student-to-Student Discourse, March 28, 2022
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What does it look and sound like when students are engaged in authentic science discussions for a variety of different purposes as they work to figure out phenomena? And how can educators support students to engage in…
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Every day NOAA scientists, technicians, and engineers work to monitor, understand, and predict environmental threats facing our nation. Among the most serious of these is sea level rise. Rising …
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This article describes an academic-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates program targeted at underrepresented students within the University of Hawaii system, shows how it is aligned with best practices for…
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A Sweet Balance: A module activity for balancing chemical reactions
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This module uses a relevant problem of baking sugar cookies to develop a basic understanding of balancing chemical reactions. It is designed to stimulate creativity and motivate students to become scientifically…
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Scope on Safety: Chemical sensitivity
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Teachers and students are subjected to myriad indoor and outdoor air pollutants such as arsenic, asbestos, benzene, formaldehyde, isocyanates, lead, and a host of others from materials used in classrooms, laboratories,…
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Creating and Delivering Differentiated Science Content Through Wikis
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Have students contribute to the learning process by creating a classroom wiki.
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Post-Genome Era Pedagogy: How a BS Biotechnology Program Benefits the Liberal Arts Institution
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Genomics profoundly affects society, because genome sequence information is widely used in such areas as genetic testing, genomic medicine/vaccine development, and so forth. Therefore, a responsibility to modernize…
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In this activity students are able to explore the particle nature of light and calculate the energy of light. Students can see the star "glow" because the emssion of the star persists for several seconds (or even…
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