Mission: Engaging Science
Even though it was 1:30 in the morning, about 1,000 people gathered in Times Square, August 6th , to stare up at a 53-foot LED screen. Having lived in New York City for many years, I know there are...
View ArticleEarth and Space Science Comes of Age in Next Generation Science Standards
Suppose that you could create a K–12 science and engineering curriculum from scratch. How would you go about doing it? Over the past four years, that’s essentially what we have done: first by writing...
View ArticleMaking the Hippos Dance: Implementing NGSS in the Classroom
There is an old adage in the policy world that rings true in the process of transforming education and standards revision. It’s called “making the hippos dance,” and it refers to grandiose policy...
View ArticleMAKING STUFF with a Community of Practice
For NOVA Education, the second MAKING STUFF outreach project is, to say the least, ambitious. Not only did we set out to build a network over three times as big as the one built around the first MAKING...
View ArticleHow Student Engagement Facilitates STEM Interest
Tiffany Cheng is a fourth year chemistry teacher in California. Her AP, honors, and regular classes contain a wide variety of students with different personalities and skills. As Tiffany works on...
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