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  • Argument-Driven Inquiry in Chemistry: Lab Investigations for Grades 9-12 (e-book)

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    Transform your chemistry labs with this guide to argument-driven inquiry. Designed to be much more authentic for instruction than traditional laboratory activities, the investigations in this book give high school…

  • Argument-Driven Inquiry in Earth and Space Science: Lab Investigations for Grades 6–10 (e-book)

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    If you’re looking for labs that cover Earth and space science, appeal to middle and high school students, and use Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI), your search is over. Argument-Driven Inquiry in Earth and Space Science…

  • Argument-Driven Inquiry in Life Science: Lab Investigations for Grades 6-8 (e-book)

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    If you’ve been wanting to bring the benefits of argument-driven inquiry to your middle school life science classes, this book will help you get started. The book provides 20 field-tested labs to help your…

  • Argument-Driven Inquiry in Physical Science: Lab Investigations for Grades 6-8 (e-book)

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    Are you interested in using argument-driven inquiry for middle school lab instruction but just aren’t sure how to do it? Argument-Driven Inquiry in Physical Science will provide you with both the information and…

  • SciGirls Strategies

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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…

  • A Hub for STEM Learning

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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.…

  • Mining Science Capital

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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 (…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Curiosity Machine

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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • “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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