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Snapshot Safari: Elephant Edition
Citizen Science article for the September/ October 2024 issue of Science Scope...
By Jill Nugent
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 17, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 10, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Web Seminar
Archive Science Update: Exoplanets: Finding Life in the Galaxy, January 30, 2025
Join exoplanet astronomer Rob Zellem, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, as he discusses how we find and characterize exoplanets, planets outside of our own Solar System, with the goal of detecting signatures of life. He will also discuss c...
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: The Rocks and Minerals of Climate Change, November 14, 2024
Climate change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our generation, and generations to come. But what's rock got to do with it? Learn how simple and familiar rocks and minerals play a critical role in responding to, recordi...
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 3, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 27, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 20, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 30, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 23, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 16, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Journal Article
Scaffolding Fourth-graders’ Inquiry about Erosion
This sequence of lessons has students observing erosion and creating ideas about factors that affect erosion. Then, as a class, students first explore the impact of vegetation on erosion. Then, groups of students more independently investigate the im...
By Alexandria Burns, Jami Daniel, Jerrid Kruse, Ellen Gow
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Smart Telescope technology and its suggested use for the Science classroom....
By Bob Riddle
Journal Article
Ecology in Urban Spaces: Contributions of Urban Green Spaces to Ecological and Community Health
Our program seeks to introduce middle school students to a range of STEM topics and careers. We planned and enacted a five-lesson unit themed around the contributions of trees/green spaces to ecological and community health. Humans thrive in ecologic...
By Yelena Janumyan, Zachary Conley, Heidi Carlone, Hannah Ziegler, Tessaly Jen, Liwei Zhang, Jingyi Chen
Journal Article
Geology from a Beaker: Student Activities in Earth Science
Student activities based on deposition in a beaker introduce Walther’s Law, which states that, if uninterrupted, vertical deposition is duplicated in the horizontal. When gravel, sand, and clay (mud) are stirred in a beaker of water, they settle ou...
By Jr. Miller