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Program Evaluation in Formal and Informal STEM Learning Environments
Evaluation Insights is a new column about program evaluation that will help readers build their capacity as program evaluators....
Journal Article
Best Practices for STEM-Focused Mobile Instructional Spaces
Mobile instructional spaces such as retrofit buses, customized trucks or trailers, and repurposed shipping containers are innovative, unique venues for teaching and learning. STEM-focused mobile instructional spaces have emerged as vehicles for provi...
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A material commonly known as Flubber, with properties that are excellent for teaching about glaciers, has been widely used in geosciences education. Yet, the original recipe contains borax, which has health risks that should be avoided. A new recipe ...
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How Do You Sample a Frozen River?
Through the Sediment, Ice, & Learning on the Tanana (SILT) project, a team of university scientists engaged two middle school student groups in testing innovative environmental research technologies to measure sediment flowing underneath river ice. T...
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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 with four parts to optimize stu...
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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 center with the goal of bringing ...
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Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 9, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: Wildfires: Science and Technology, June 13, 2024
Wildfires have become an emerging issue of natural disasters in the U.S. For example, the 2023 Hawaii Maui Island Wildfire claimed more than 100 lives and destroyed almost all buildings on the island. Recent wildfires in Texas also burned hundreds of...
Web Seminar
Climate change presents a distinct challenge for ocean and coastal place-based managers. The complexity of marine ecosystems, coupled with the difficulty of both direct observations and swift management interventions in the ocean, necessitates a purp...
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 2, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, March 26, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, March 19, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
Journal Article
Here Come the Robots: A Century of Fear and Fascination with Automated Machines
Teaching resources from the Library of Congress...
By Kelsey Beeghly
Journal Article
Generating opportunities: Strategies to elevate Science and Engineering Practices using ChatGPT
Within this Idea Bank, we offer practical strategies to integrate ChatGPT across three science and engineering practices (i.e., asking questions and defining problems, planning and carrying out investigations, and analyzing and interpreting data) dur...
By Andrew Kipp, Nathan Hawk, Gustavo Perez