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Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning
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Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning by Jeff Weld offers insight for educators, policy makers, and business leaders about why STEM education matters and where it’s headed next. This new NSTA Press book…
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Art and motion: moving toward STEM
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Camp is not school. Like school, camp is play and camp is a learning environment, but the time together may not be long enough to build a community that effectively investigates together. In a half-day, five-day camp…
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Partnering With Utilities for Hands-On STEM
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Granada High School’s Interact Club students work with David Lunn of Friends of the Arroyo to measure water turbidity during the Tri-Valley Creeks to Bay Clean-up event. Photo by William Rasor. Utility companies, hoping…
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Solar Panels Enhance STEM Learning
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Columbia Water and Light presented a solar energy demonstration to students at Benton STEM Elementary School in Columbia, Missouri. Photo Courtesy of Heather McCullar Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)…
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Adding More STEM to the School Day
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Middle school students dissect a frog as part of a hands-on lesson from Science from Scientists, an in-school enrichment program in Massachusetts and California. (Photo by Arturo Martinez) Schools seeking to enhance…
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Will STEM Education Be the Child Left Behind?
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Last week in the Senate, Senators Franken and Kirk circulated a Dear Colleague letter addressed to the ESEA conference leaders, asking them to include the Senate language they introduced (and was passed) in the Senate…
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Meeting the Demand for Future STEM Teachers
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Third graders in Hofstra University’s STEM Studio ponder how to display the data generated from their pre-exercise/post-exercise pulse rate experiment. Photo courtesy of HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY The University of…
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Successful STEM Reform: Leadership Is Key
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A recent Education Week blog post entitled “STEM Reforms in Needy Schools Eroded Quickly” painted a disappointing picture of STEM education reform. In this post, part 1 of a 2-part series* from the National Science…
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Earth-Like Planets in the STEM Classroom
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On our vacation this year to Rockport, Massachusetts, we spent an hour one night watching the Perseid meteor shower. This is my favorite meteor shower because I can lay outside and not get cold too fast. The night sky…
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Cotton candy, roller coasters, and STEM
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Have you ever taken your students to STEM education events at an amusement park? We’re working on a story about theme parks where students can learn while having fun, such as Ohio’s Kings Island, which holds Math and…
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Creating tomorrow's STEM workforce
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Katherine Johnson helped pave the way for women and African Americans in technical fields Have you ever heard of Katherine Johnson, an African American woman who helped calculate the orbits that put Neil Armstrong on…
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STEM: Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
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I wonder how teachers include the “E” in this acronym when designing or selecting class activities. And yet, the play that children do can be the foundation for future interest in engineering. This issue has several…
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STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
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How many of use chose careers in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics because of our experiences in school? Some topics or activities must have stimulated our interest and curiosity, and the authors in this…
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What's good for the girls in STEM?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmiehomeschoolmom/ / CC BY 2.0 “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds, and diamonds are made under pressure.” While these words…
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History and Social Studies Integration with STEM
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NGSS, STEM, STEAM, and Common Core all speak of the importance of the integration of science with ELA, math, and art. However, we are missing one more layer needed to achieve the goal of total integration. We should…
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