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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 2, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, March 19, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Nature at your door: Partnering with families to support nature-based engagement
Through regular classroom communications teachers facilitate family partnership in nature-based learning. Teachers can promote family engagement in th...
By Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Ariadni Kouzeli
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In an age where catastrophic damage from climate-related events circulates through social and print media, it is important to build communities of hop...
By Candace Penrod
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Civic Engagement for Climate Action, Resilience, and Hope for Local Waterways
Climate education in elementary grades offers a chance to teach climate science, to help students understand how serious climate change is, to focus o...
By Melissa Braaten, Tiffany Boyd, Jessica Bean
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, March 5, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Creating a Buzz About Community-Engaged Research
School districts across the United States are actively exploring avenues to aid elementary-aged Gifted and Talented (GT) students in conducting studen...
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Looking for something REALLY exciting, creepy-crawly, accessible and pertains to phenomenon-based/ storyline-based NGSS? Bugscope is a free educationa...
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Growing Beyond Earth: Cultivating 21st century science exploration
Citizen Science column for the Jan/Feb 2024 Science Scope Journal...
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, January 23, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 21, 2023
By Debra Shapiro
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Beavers are social mammals who live in groups, known as colonies, and they construct dams and lodges, which modify the surrounding landscape. In their...
By Jill Nugent
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Using iNaturalist to Support Place-Based Learning and Data Analysis
Often, we think that to learn about nature, students must be in a “natural” place to experience the environment, but this assumption can be proble...
By Amanda V. Garner and Joshua Rosenberg
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Emphasis on Quality in iNaturalist Plant Collections Enhances Learning and Research Utility
Following the switch to remote online teaching in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the plant taxonomy course at the University of Georgia (UGA) swit...
By Mason C. McNair, Chelsea M. Sexton, and Mark Zenoble
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 26, 2023
By Debra Shapiro