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SCIENCE CLASS #1- WHY Does Helium Make Your Voice Higher? - Mark Rober - youtuber - former NASA engineer share #stayhome Science lessons. The lesson teaches itself with ... [Read More]

Use the STEMSims simulation with students to raise awareness of steps to reduce the spread of a virus that's similar to COVID-19. https://stemsims.com/simulations/flu-tr... [Read More]

If you're looking for great ideas for how to combine STEM + literacy, check out 2 years worth of topics on www.STEMTuesday.com An excellent source of literacy and STEM ... [Read More]

We've put together an entire guide of online and offline modules for K-5 distance learning. https://courses.steamcafe.net/products/courses/view/1013488 You can also j... [Read More]

Looking for engineering design projects to actively engage students at home? The Design Squad Global website has design challenges, teacher guides, lesson plans, videos, ... [Read More]

Show the students and parents that you care- I recently read an article about administrators sending out the teachers emails to parents so that they can email with questi... [Read More]

Nature's Notebook Become an observer and help track seasonal changes in plants and animals. Use scientifically-vetted observation guidelines for over 1000 plants and ani... [Read More]

We are shipping STEM boxes AROUND THE GLOBE to parents now schooling at home. As a former Virginia science teacher, our Groovy founder specifically designed this box to m... [Read More]

Wanted to share a free virtual Science is Cool Unconference taking place on April 2! Attending the ScIC Virtual Unconference will give you the opportunity to earn one uni... [Read More]

For my introduction to online learning I created a scavenger hunt though the link:NASA Solar System, for my 11-12 Earth/Environmental, also a scavenger hunt for Google Ea... [Read More]

We wrote a short article you can share with your students' parents about how they can support their child's STEM learning at home. It offers some strategies and question ... [Read More]

The following websites present two online class periods for helping students communicate science and engineering: 1. Rethinking Scientific Presentations: The Assertion... [Read More]

SCIENCE CLASS #2- Does Farting Make You Weigh Less? https://youtu.be/3FRyPjUlQKk?t=10 Lesson teaches itself - Mark Rober - youtuber - former NASA engineer.

Making short clips of any event or activity that may bring wonder.. For example, the bubbles in sink as we wash dishes, or the ones that pop in pancakes, a slow motion dr... [Read More]

Our team designed Seasons & Moon Phases/Eclipses curricula for middle school science classrooms. They use a blend of hands on models and computer visualizations, but stud... [Read More]

Citizen science! Check out SciStarter.org for thousands of real world science projects that learners of all ages can engage in from their home, backyard, and even online!... [Read More]

The AGU's Education Section has created and an Online Learning Exchange with resources, tips, and communities for k-20 educators. https://www.agu.org/learn-and-develop/le... [Read More]

My family and I made this fun all-ages Daffodil Dissection home experiment presentation. Enjoy outside! bit.ly/daffodil-dissection

Check out the March issue of Science Scope which focuses on STEAM. Let Dana Atwood-Blaine's article be your springboard for combining botany and art. Regular columns like... [Read More]

If anyone is looking for trade books that can be utilized for science topics - whether they came from the Outstanding Science Trade Books, the Best STEM Books, or simply ... [Read More]

Preschool and Elementary educators check out the January edition of Science and Children. The theme is Take-Home Science. This month we take a look at ideas for explor... [Read More]

High school students interested in health care or biomedical research careers can find useful information and stories of people working in a number of career areas at htt... [Read More]

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, offers a free downloadable curriculum supplement for middl... [Read More]

What a great time to encourage students to get outdoors and explore phenomena that are all around them: birds! The Be a BirdSleuth! slide deck offers many ways for stude... [Read More]

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, offers a set of free Brain Basics publications designed fo... [Read More]

I have a fun activity for MS Science Students using the Periodic Table.Dr Science’ S Element Quiz Dr Science sez: the names of elements may seem to be obscure Latin term... [Read More]

Unable to get information to kids due to equity concerns. My own kids are struggling with the lack of collaborative learning opportunities; they desperately miss their t... [Read More]

We are using Google Meet once a week for each class with our students along with google classroom and Canvas lessons.

MS and HS teachers - if you're looking for some open access, open source and reliable data around global issues to engage students with - check out Our World in Data ... [Read More]

The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science has a peer-reviewed collection of over 800 STEM case studies for use at the undergraduate, graduate, and high scho... [Read More]

Your students likely have a lot of questions about the coronavirus and the near-constant changes it's bringing to their daily lives. Check out these lessons for secondary... [Read More]

Due to the coronavirus pandemic many school districts across the country have decided to close schools and teach online full time. NSTA has compiled a list of resources t... [Read More]

Why should you wash your hands? How far can germs spread if you don't? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5-dI74zxPg&t=324s

Here is a resource from STEM Teaching Tools compiled by the Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) titled "Guidance for Supporting Science Learning During COVID-19 h... [Read More]

The Georgia Science Teachers Association has created a document of online resources for science teaching and learning. You can find that document here: https://docs.goog... [Read More]

Here are some ideas from the CA Science Discovery Center called "Stuck at Home Science" with activity guides and Spanish translations. https://californiasciencecenter.or... [Read More]

This is a great time to utilize the live webcams and virtual field trips out there. Here is a document with several listed and prompts for students to complete while they... [Read More]

Professional Learning should be on-going. NSTA provides web seminars for all teachers of science. Register at: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/webseminars