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| 7 Days to the Great American Solar Eclipse | | Science teachers aren't the only ones excited about the August 21 eclipse; people everywhere are expected to flock to towns and cities to view totality. You still have time to download and prepare with a number of NSTA resources for teachers, parents, and children to learn about and experience this amazing phenomenon. Also visit the NSTA Learning Center for a special collection of resources. | |
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| Art and Motion: Moving Toward STEM | | Working with young children in a camp setting, early childhood science education expert Peggy Ashbrook notes that "sharing materials encouraged negotiation and supported developing social skills. It is satisfying to see children exploring motion and trying to work out how to make the materials do what they want them to. This engagement is the beginning of a science inquiry." Read more. | |
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| Getting Students Excited About STEM | | Larry Plank, director for K–12 STEM education for Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, explains how many school districts struggle with how to expand students' interest, excitement, and achievement in STEM. Without the right approach, the result is often random acts of STEM that do little to show students how fascinating or relevant these subjects really are. He offers a few of the strategies that his district implemented to give students hands-on, inquiry-based STEM learning experiences that are preparing them for college and careers. Read the article featured on Smart Brief. |
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| How the Girl Scouts' New CEO Is Using Her Time at NASA and Apple to Promote STEM Education | | What started as simply stargazing with her Girl Scout troop as a 7-year-old in New Mexico has since turned into careers at NASA, IBM, Apple, and Dell for Sylvia Acevedo. In May, she was named the CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, the organization she belonged to growing up. Her mission: to ensure STEM learning is a part of every young woman's life. Despite being one of the few girls in her science and math classes through grade school, Acevedo says she was "able to persist" because she realized she was both interested in and good at the subjects. Acevedo was one of the first Hispanic students to earn a master's degree in engineering from Stanford University, but to afford it, she simultaneously worked at IBM as an engineer. Today, she is using her work experience to address the lack of exposure girls have to science, technology, engineering and math. Read the story featured on the CNBC website. |
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| Call the CDC! Interest in STEM May Be 'Contagious' in High School | | You don't have to be inherently interested in epidemiology to catch the science bug—just sit next to a bunch of other high school students fascinated by the topic, says a new analysis. The study finds that new college students are more likely to say they plan to pursue STEM careers when they were surrounded by other enthusiastic scientists-to-be in high school;—even controlling for factors like interest in science, previous achievement in the field, or parental support for studying science, says the study, which appears in the open-access journal Science Advances, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The study is based on a survey of a nationally representative population of students in 50 college and universities in the United States. Read the article featured on Education Week Curriculum Matters blog. Check out the Education News Roundup for a selection of the week's top education news stories. |
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| | | Smithsonian Science How Webcasts | | Registration opens today for these free 30-minute, live webcasts from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History that bring scientists into your grades 6–8 classroom. |
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