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Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms (Book Sample)
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Critical Consciousness in Engineering for Sustainable Communities
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Citizen Science in Unexpected Places
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Solutions-Focused Sustainable Development Education Through Biomimicry
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Transition Complete! So What’s Next?
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From the outside, it may not have seemed like a big deal, but transitioning the NSTA journals to an external publisher was a complex process. Of course it was worth it. New features such as DOI numbers, the ability to…
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Solar eclipses are a rare phenomenon that everyone should have the opportunity to explore in depth. This article describes two programs developed by a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outreach…
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The Learning Team at The Florida Aquarium in Tampa received funding in 2014 to create and conduct a long-term outdoor learning experience for Hillsborough County, Florida, fifth-grade students. The program was designed…
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Program Evaluation in Formal and Informal STEM Learning Environments
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Evaluation Insights is a new column about program evaluation that will help readers build their capacity as program evaluators.
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Guitar Designs—Exploring How Music Is Made
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In this activity, students use household items to make a functional guitar that can play at least one octave and a song. This selection highlights the physics concepts of sound and wave properties, as well as the core…
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Temperature and Photosynthesis
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply their knowledge of photosynthesis and how to measure the chemical process, specifically, ”How Does Temperature Affect the Rate of Photosynthesis in Plants?” The Teacher…
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Talk it Out! Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment with Dialogues
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Getting ALL students involved in a class can be a difficult task. Getting students EXCITED about reading, writing, and learning can be an even MORE difficult task. Fortunately, the use of Dialogues is an easy strategy…
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Constructive student roles for authentic collaboration in engineering design challenges
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Student roles can promote collaboration and individual accountability in groups during engineering design challenges. However, student disengagement may occur if students do not perceive value in their roles. We…
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This lesson allows students to engage in sense-making through the cross-cutting analysis of the form and function of pollen, carried by pollinators. Students observe the microscopic features of pollen and how insects…
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Group Learning Routines as a tool to build equitable learning experiences in a Biology classroom
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The vision behind the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is that all students engage in explaining phenomena and designing solutions with three-dimensional learning. Authentic sensemaking involves opportunities…
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Early Retirement: Making Sense of Patterns in Historical Data of Retired Hurricanes
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Long after a hurricane passes over and through any region or coastal area, the memories of it often linger. There may be visual reminders of the storm and the day lives may have been changed, or lost, forever.…
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