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SciGirls Strategies aims to increase the number of high school girls recruited to and retained in nontraditional, technical STEM pathways. The program provides career and technical education teachers with professional…
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The Exploratorium Teacher Institute leverages a network of teachers, education researchers, practicing scientists, and informal education staff to address the professional learning needs of secondary science teachers.…
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“It was a perfect day. I was impressed with the students’ curiosity, questions, and seriousness about volcanic rocks and how engaged and focused they were for the entire day,” said American Museum of Natural History (…
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Making On and Off the Spectrum
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People have been making since the first human used a tool, and have continued to create things for both fun and function. From building model trains to quilting, from woodworking to baking, people have for centuries…
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Teaching Environmental Awareness in Baltimore
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A national movement, sparked by Richard Louv’s (2005) treatise Last Child in the Woods, has catalyzed collaborations among government agencies, schools, and nonprofit and community organizations to reconnect children…
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Evaluating Nature Museum Field Trip Workshops, an Out-of-School STEM Education Program
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Out-of-school learning opportunities for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) represent an important context in which students learn about and do STEM. Studies have shown that in- and out…
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Archive: Using the NGSS Practices in the Elementary Grades, January 29, 2013
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This web seminar took place on January 29, 2013, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time. The presenters were Heidi Schweingruber from the National Research Council, Deborah Smithfrom Penn State…
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The Curiosity Machine Family Program at Iridescent Learning brings underserved families together over five weeks to do open-ended engineering design challenges with the help of scientists and engineers, who mentor the…
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Connected Climate Change Learning Through Citizen Science
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Educators in rural Alaska assessed and implemented effective strategies for Indigenous youth in rural Alaska to use GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment), a K–12 classroom learning program…
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Science Investigation and Developing Students’ Science-Process Skills Through Citizen Science
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It’s 7:15 on a Friday morning and the ‘early birds’ have arrived. Eager students don their binoculars for Ms. Vigeland’s before-school birdwatching club. Ranging from fourth to eighth grade, these Hilltop…
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“I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This”
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Learn about how a university-based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science-focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago. In this article, we describe our…
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The science education community is buzzing about STEM learning ecosystems, ecologies of learning, and ecological perspectives on learning. You may not know it, but if your teaching involves building on young people’s…
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Collaboratory = Collaborate + Laboratory
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Classroom teacher, examining plant structure, in a laboratory at Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryPacific Northwest National Laboratory created a network focused on collaboration in STEM education to design and…
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Learn how to create opportunities for young people from low-income, ethnically diverse communities to learn about growing food, doing science, and how science can help them contribute to their community in positive ways…
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The Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery strives to provide a hub for play-based science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) learning experiences in rural southeastern Ohio. The museum works to develop meaningful…
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