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Distant Learning is a challenge when you have a technology divide. Teaching face to face in an Urban system is a challenge, but when you add distance learning into the ... [Read More]

Discovery Education has excellent video resources that are aligned to science standards. We use the FOSS curriculum, many teachers videotaped the lessons or activities t... [Read More]

My science methods students were supposed to be teaching this month in a local elementary school. Since this opportunity disappeared, we worked with our cooperating teach... [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]

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]

This past semester, my district used gizmos virtual labs and simulations from explore learning (https://www.explorelearning.com/). This was very helpful, in addition I tr... [Read More]

Use the MicroObservatory to have a remote telescope take a picture to of the night sky and email it to students. They can view the moon, stars, and galaxies. Once the ima... [Read More]

We can conduct the cheistry experiments using Micro sale Apparatus

Middle School Educators, Oceanic Research Group http://www.oceanicresearch.org/ is the sponsor of Jonathan Bird's Blue World, http://www.blueworldtv.com/ an e... [Read More]

www.CPALMS.org is a free site with over 10,000 K-12 standards-aligned resources for students and teachers. The most popular: 900+ Original Student Tutorials providing onl... [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.

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]

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

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]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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