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  • Digital Observation Technology Skills

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    Digital Observation Technology Skills (DOTS) is a framework for integrating modern, mobile technology into outdoor, experiential science education. DOTS addresses longstanding tensions between modern technology and…

  • Enter the Nation’s First Student Chief Science Officers

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    Students vote for one of their peers to become a STEM advocate in their school. These Chief Science Officers select and promote STEM programming, connect with STEM organizations to bring STEM programming to their…

  • CAISE

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    The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education hosts resources for designers, evaluators, and researchers of informal STEM learning experiences and settings. The Center for Advancement of Informal Science…

  • Delving Below the Surface With the Montana Groundwater Academy

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    The Montana Groundwater Academy is a high school program that integrates classroom and field-based experiences to teach the fundamentals of groundwater science.     According to the U.S. Geological Survey…

  • Connecting Urban Families With Environmental Science

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    The PLUM LANDING Explore Outdoors Toolkit is a new set of free, public media resources designed to help informal educators and parents infuse science learning into outdoor recreation.     Few people think…

  • Science Action Club

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    Youth in Science Action Club (SAC) use citizen science to investigate nature, document their discoveries, share data with the scientific community, and design strategies to protect the planet. Through collaborations…

  • A New Year for Connected Science Learning

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    Connected Science Learning Editor Dennis Schatz provides readers with news about behind-the-scenes updates for the journal.   Funding to support Connected Science Learning We are delighted to announce that The…

  • PEEP and the Big Wide World

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    PEEP and the Big Wide World is a public television show and website devoted to engaging preschool-aged children in developmentally appropriate science. PEEP’s newest effort is to address the needs of home-based, family…

  • Preschool in a Science Center

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    The Science Center of Iowa in Des Moines began an on-site preschool shortly after its doors opened in 1970, inspired by the founders’ belief in the importance of science education for early childhood learners.…

  • TeachEngineering Digital Library

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    A visual representation of the various curriculum types TeachEngineering offers. The TeachEngineering Digital Library is a free, online collection of K–12 curricular materials that focus on integrating engineering…

  • SciToons

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    Brown University’s Science Cartoons (SciToons) series makes science fun, engaging, and easier to understand through the captivating power of storytelling and animation.   Brown University’s four- to five-minute…

  • Itty Bitty Science

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    The Collaborative for Early Science Learning is a group of six museums in six different cities that partner with their local Head Start programs to provide training for teachers and opportunities for family engagement…

  • Creating Professional Development for Informal and K–12 Educators

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    The results of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate surveys help science education professional development providers successfully work with educators.   NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) explores the Earth…

  • Head Start on Engineering

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    The Head Start on Engineering project engages parents and children in a multicomponent family engineering program that includes professional development for teachers, workshops for parents, take-home family activity…

  • A Screencasting Strategy to Support STEM Learning in the Early Grades

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    Learn how a research–practice partnership used screencasting to promote early elementary students’ mathematics learning and communication.   It is a winter day in Auburn, Maine. Twenty second-grade students in…

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