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  • A Museum Learning Lab

    Journal Article |

    The “Learning Lab: The Cell” exhibit was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum and the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS). Specially designed for middle and high school…

  • On Clickers, Questions, and Learning

    Journal Article |

    The purpose of this paper is to review the procedures used to help students become learning victors. Specifically, this paper will discuss the process used to integrate classroom-response-system technology and question-…

  • A Hub for STEM Learning

    Journal Article |

    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.…

  • STEM Learning Ecologies

    Journal Article |

    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…

  • Broadening STEM to Include Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Contexts

    Professional Learning Unit |

    Broadening STEM to include agriculture and natural resource management leverages students’ funds of knowledge and supports meaningful STEM learning.

  • Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit

    Professional Learning Unit |

    This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the…

  • Addressing Laboratory Activity Safety Hazards/Risks: Hierarchy of Controls

    Professional Learning Unit |

    Science instructional sites (e.g. laboratory, classroom, field) can be unsafe, given the potential biological, chemical, and physical hazards and resulting health and safety risks. This module will help teachers learn a…

  • Leading the Implementation of High Quality Instructional Materials to Enact Standards

    Professional Learning Unit |

    High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) designed for next generation science can make a difference in the quality of equitable science teaching and learning throughout the educational system and for all learners (i.…

  • Integrating Engineering Practices and Career Competencies into Science Classrooms

    Professional Learning Unit |

    A Framework for K-12 Education calls for the integration of engineering design into K-12 science classrooms. This PLU introduces the challenges and opportunities this shift raises. Participants will explore connections…

  • Solving the Problem of Finding Authentic Problems Students Can Solve in the K-12 Classroom

    Professional Learning Unit |

    Is identifying and choosing relevant, authentic problems to put in front of your students holding you back from providing opportunities to engage your students in engineering design?

  • Supporting Student Development of Science and STEM Identity

    Professional Learning Unit |

    What is a STEM identity, and why is it important for all students? Gain insight and strategies to help your students develop a STEM identity.

  • We have got a Problem to Solve! Now What?

    Professional Learning Unit |

    Science standards based on A Framework for K-12 Science Education require us to provide opportunities for students to learn “how science is utilized, in particular through the engineering design process, and they should…

  • Leveraging Assets to Build on Student Experiences, A Focus on Curiosity

    Professional Learning Unit |

    During this Professional Learning Unit, we discuss instructional strategies that take an asset approach to student learning. The discussion will focus on how the knowledge students bring to learning—including student…

  • What Is Sensemaking?

    Professional Learning Unit |

    Learn to recognize the four critical attributes of sensemaking and how these attributes work together to help ensure all students have access and a strong desire to learn science. 

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