I love this so much! What a great science experience!
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RT @AndreaMango1
1st had fun pretending to have external animal parts. They used straws, popsicle sticks, clothes pins, tweezers, & spoon hands to try to pick up insects🦋, seeds 🌱, fish🐠, nectar🌼, & worms🪱! #NGSS #STEM @Dodge_WCSD
https://twitter.com/AndreaMango1/status/1651358121934172164

April 2023 NGSS Now Newsletter | Next Generation Science Standards

https://nextgenscience.org/news/april-2023-ngss-now-newsletter

#ngss #nextgenscience #science #education #school

The Aurora is very active tonight.

If you want to teach your Ss more about how they form check out the lesson I wrote for @scifri with @mostlyplasma

#Aurora #STEMeducation #NGSS #teaching

https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/some-aurora-appear-in-discrete-lines/

This might not seem like much for a HS class, but let me tell you

1. Most of the Ss have never grown anything from a seed.
2. The questions they have about what it means if their predictions are incorrect are valuable & precisely why we do experiments!
#NGSS #STEM #environmentaleducation

And the Ss seeds are planted. They have chosen to modify one of the plant’s requirements to see what happens.
These are Zinnia seeds so hopefully they sprout and grow a little before spring break in 2 weeks!
#NGSS #EnvironmentalScience #STEM #stemeducation

hat are metals, and why do they have the properties that they do? A great resource for science teachers and students, with help from animated GIFs

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/chemistry/the-periodic-table/metals-and-non-metals/

#metals #periodictable #electrons #highschoolscience #chemistry #NGSS #STEM

In developing AIs (artificial intelligences) there’s no guarantee that they will think like we do. We need to ask, what possible type of minds could AIs have? Students are interested in such questions!

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/possible-minds/

#AI #teachers #ArtificialIntelligence
@science
@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers

Science teachers need to take the lead in schools, learning & teaching what AI (artificial intelligence) is & what it isn't, basic ideas behind it; solved problems in AI; etc

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/reading-connections/coding-and-robotics/artificial-intelligence/

#teaching #STEM #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #scienceteachers #teachers
@science
@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers

Best Practices For Teachers When Teaching About Native American Peoples

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2021/06/02/best-practices-when-teaching-about-native-american-peoples/

@science
@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers

Women in math and science - some role models for teachers & students to know about

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/about/women-in-science-and-math/

#Teaching @science
@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers

Diversity & Inclusion resources for STEM teachers. Scientists and engineers are from all ethnic, cultural, and national backgrounds. We can be Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, Polynesian, Native American, from any background

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/about/diversity-inclusion-in-stem/

#DEI #Teachers #Teaching @science
@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers

Calling all #NGSS teachers & #ngsschat folks. Do you know an excellent K-12 earth science educator? Nominate them for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers Outstanding Earth Science Teacher award. Nominations are open until March 31 and the form is very easy to fill-out!

#Geoscience #Geology #Stem #Education #Teaching #NAGT #Teachers

https://nagt.org/nagt/awards/oest.html

I am modifying this curriculum to fit with my storyline about local fossils from the Fairmead fossil site.

The students love it and fossils are such a great way to blend geoscience and biology!

#NGSS #ScienceEd #Teaching #Fossils

The files and original curriculum is the Chewing on Change lessons from University of Florida.

#NGSS #ngsstweeps #STEM #Teaching

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/panama-pire/voices/2016-issues/an-evolving-curriculum-the-chewing-on-change-horse-evolution-lesson-plan/

4 weeks, 30+ hours of trouble shooting, 1 new 3D printer & countless errors later the sets of horse teeth are almost ready for class.
Students will draw, measure, and determine how they have changed in the Cenozoic.
Thanks @phaneritic for making this happen!
#NGSS #ScienceEducation #Teaching

So I found a good productive use for ChatGPT and my instruction relating to science teaching yesterday.

If the focal phenomenon I am asking students to explore can be effectively answered by ChatGPT, then the phenomenon is not worthy of my students. Gogo better and more complex phenomena.
#NGSS @edutooters

What's a #neuron, how do nerves transmit signals? We can teach fully on-level high school science through creating easy-to-make yet anatomically correct models out of candy. This isn't dumbing science down; this is using all of our senses to better connect with the material: The anatomically correct candy neuron

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/build-an-anatomically-correct-candy-neuron/

@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers

Can we do a real high school level #genetics lab using only #LEGOs? Well, yes we can! Here is the info & lab. Honors students loved it, and this was originally designed from the ground up for our #SPED students.

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/modeling-dna-with-legos/

@science
@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers

Can we do a real high school level #genetics lab using only M&Ms candies? Well, yes we can! Here is the info & lab. Honors students loved it, and this was originally designed from the ground up for our #SPED students.

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/genetics/dna-replication/

@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers #DNA

I'm a believer in reversing the traditional vector of IEPs, scaffolding & differentiation - by that I mean, once one makes any IEP adaptations, then why not then fold those adaptations back into the general class, whenever possible?
Much of what I originally made for students with IEPs became sought after by all my other students, and then students of other teachers, from the Honors science classes (and now from other schools.)

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/

@edutooters
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #IEP #SPED #specialed