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  • Editor’s Corner: Understanding STEM

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    The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.

  • Idea Bank: The Power of STEM

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    The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank describes how instituting a STEM certificate helped the author grow her school's STEM program.

  • Creating STEM Kits for the Classroom

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    Preservice teachers design developmentally appropriate science lessons and gain STEM experience.

  • The Early Years: The STEM of Inquiry

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    This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue describes a STEM activity that includes designing and using a tool.

  • Connecting Students to STEM Careers

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    Raise student awareness of careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with this innovative program.

  • STEM Learning Across Boundaries

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    It’s important to acknowledge that words matter in research communities. Bronwyn Bevan discusses the language surrounding in-school and out-of-school communities used in Connected Science Learning.   The goal of…

  • Editor’s Note: STEM Careers

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    There is a new impetus for encouraging students to become more knowledgeable about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and perhaps encourage them to choose a career in science-related fields.…

  • Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course

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    The authors describe how they introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors.

  • Outcomes for Peer-Based Mentors in a University-Wide STEM Persistence Program: A Three-Year Analysis

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    While the majority of STEM persistence has focused on outcomes for first-year students, there has been little investigation into the outcomes for peer mentors. Of the studies conducted, results are promising. Benefits…

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