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Our work revolves around four pillars of STEM education:
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to provide authentic STEM experiences for students and teachers
MMSLN : Science Chat today
Join today to hear from Amelia Gotwals and Tanya Wright about elementary science and remote coaching!
Register here!
mimathandscience.org/courses-registration/
Online best practices
Many of our school teams are new to navigating online tools and social media for both work and play. Although teachers are excited and proud to show the work they are doing with students online, number 10 has serious implications. Maybe we should even follow this rule with adults at sessions asking permission to take pictures and post. This is nice and short to share with school teams.
www.ets.org/s/proethica/pdf/social-media-rules.pdf
Look Up to the Stars-virtual programs
In light of the current situation we are all in, Look Up to the Stars is now offering virtual programs to help maintain social distancing efforts while still enjoying learning about the wonders of the universe. As a Consultant for NASA, Wright Fellow and Einstein Fellow, I understand the importance of excellence in quality education for our nation's youth. Please see our intro video in a little over 3 minutes, and visit our website for more information. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all, and their families, who are affected by the Coronavirus. We stand with you in hope that this pandemic that has plagued our nation will soon be eradicated and turn around to a brighter tomorrow. Be healthy and prosperous, and keep looking up!
The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 30 years in orbit where a new NASA website lets you see what Hubble was looking at on your birthday. You just enter your birth date and - voila! - you'll see what this amazing telescope was looking at while you were celebrating one of your past birthdays.
For more information:
Kevin Manning, Astronomer
Look Up to the Stars
Celebrating Our 11th Anniversary
(631) 921-9716
kevin@lookuptothestars.com
www.lookuptothestars.com
www.lookuptothestars.com/all-programs.html
Astronomy Educational Tours and Programs
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Look Up to the Stars has fun and educational astronomy tours and programs for all ages, including family events. Learn more about our programs here!VIRTUAL STEM Summer Camp
For Students entering grades 6-8 in Fall, 2020
Week of July 13, 2020, 9am to noon*
Technology support provided
FREE
For details and required paperwork, see
standrews.msu.edu/event/stem-stew-camp-2020/
*More specific information will be available soon
standrews.msu.edu
Middle school students grades 6 through 8 are welcome to join us during the week of July 13, 2020 for a virtual STEM Camp. Details are still being worked out, but the camp will be held on five half…YOUR DAILY EQUATION
YOUR DAILY EQUATION #01: E = MC2
Join us for #YourDailyEquation with Brian Greene. Every Mon - Fri at 3pm EDT, Brian Greene will offer brief and breezy discussions of pivotal equations. Even if your math is a bit rusty, tune in for accessible and exciting stories of nature and numbers that will allow you to see the universe in a new way. Brian kicks off #yourdailyequation with Albert Einstein's famous equation E = mc2.
www.worldsciencefestival.com/p…/your-daily-equation/
Your Daily Equation | World Science Festival
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Join us for #YourDailyEquation with Brian Greene. Every Mon – Fri at 3pm EDT, Brian Greene will offer brief and breezy discussions of pivotal equations. Even if your math is a ...co.chalkbeat.org/2020/5/15/21260700/remote-learning-finish-strong-incentive-program
Learn now, earn later: One Colorado district is offering rewards for participation in ‘Cloud School’
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Some parents don’t think the incentive program is fair to all students.How Does the Hot Air Balloon Take Off?
In the new NSTA Daily Do, How Does the Hot Air Balloon Take Off?, students engage in science and engineering practices and the thinking tool of the flow of energy and matter (crosscutting concept) to figure out what is "rising" and how the science ideas of energy transfer and the movement of matter can explain this and other phenomena. This task is adapted from the OpenSciEd Weather, Climate, & Water Cycling Unit (Lesson 5: What happens to the air near the ground when it is warmed up?).
Share your photos of your family completing this Daily Do with us on Twitter, and visit our entire collection of Daily Do sensemaking tasks — now grade-banded to find what you need faster!
new.nsta.org/lesson-plan/how-does-hot-air-balloon-take?utm_source=realmagnet&utm_medium=email&utm...
How Does the Hot Air Balloon Take Off? | NSTA
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Teachers and families across the country are facing a new reality of providing opportunities for students to do science through distance and home learning. The Daily Do is one of the ways NSTA is supporting teachers and families with this endeavor. Each weekday, NSTA will share a sensemaking task te...Free virtual PD session happening this Monday from 5:30 pm to 7pm on How to Support Home-Based Science Learning During School Closures. Drs. Megan Bang, Carrie Tzou, Leah Bricker, and Phil Bell will be presenting the session.
We will be sharing resources and approaches from the CSSS COVID19 project response effort, the Learning in Places Project, and STEM Teaching Tools. We frame home-based science learning as an alternative to other dominant models like remote instruction, virtual education, supplemental learning, etc. Home-based science learning centers the assets and interests of family and community life as well as the geographic place and phenomena of home and neighborhood. This is a fabulous way to learn more about the resources developed by the Learning in Places project.
If you or educational leaders in your networks would like to participate, the sign-up is here: www.pdenroller.org/ospi/Catalog/Event/104426
We have run this session previously. If you would like to watch or share a recording of the original offering of this PD session or the resources, you can find that here: stemteachingtools.org/sp/HomeBasedScienceLearning
If you are on Twitter, you can help promote this offering by retweeting this post: twitter.com/philiplbell/status/1260603503845625856?s=20
This session is part of a larger set of PD offerings from the ClimeTime effort in Washington.
here's the abstract for the session: With students and educators under shelter-at-home orders, states and districts are faced with difficult decisions about how to support students’ science learning while they are home. Home environments support different aspects of student learning than school-based environments. Designing home-based learning experiences to intentionally take advantage of the unique assets of being at home can be supportive of students’ social, emotional, and mental health; provide a meaningful and complementary science learning experience; and allow students to explore real-world and personally relevant science in ways that are difficult to accomplish in school. Field-based examples of home and neighborhood investigations of ecological systems will be shared.
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“PLS RT #NGSSchat Thrilled to announce FREE online #SciEd PD session Monday, 5/18, 2:30-4pm PST on HOW TO SUPPORT HOME-BASED SCIENCE LEARNING DURING SCHOOL CLOSURES I will be joined by @meganbang3 @tzouct & @lbricker10 from Learning in Places Sign-up: t.co/XlYmX4rRhW”Virtual Regeneron ISEF 2020!
The Society for Science & the Public and Regeneron welcome our global science fair network and the larger STEM community for a special week of virtual events to celebrate science and engineering. We are excited for you to join us May 18-22 for the Virtual Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair 2020!
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Science Usually Has a Public Policy Connection:
Foundation for Teaching Economics Webinar: COVID-19 Economic Implications and Policy Response.
This webinar was very interesting... you might check out the archived video
You can access the video presentation and PowerPoint slides at www.fte.org/teachers/teacher-resources/webinars/
