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The Landscape Of Us Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education: Course Requirements For Mathematics Content And Methods, Brette Garner, Jen Munson, Gladys Krause, Claudia Bertolone-Smith, Et Al.
The Landscape Of Us Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education: Course Requirements For Mathematics Content And Methods, Brette Garner, Jen Munson, Gladys Krause, Claudia Bertolone-Smith, Et Al.
School of Education Articles
The adequate preparation of future teachers of mathematics is critical, requiring sufficient opportunities to develop both pedagogical skill and content knowledge. Yet, despite new recommendations for mathematics teacher preparation, we know little about the landscape of course-based learning opportunities in US elementary teacher education programs. To what extent do US elementary teacher education programs meet the Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics outlined by the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) for mathematics content and methods courses? Based on an a priori power analysis, we gathered a random sample of 291 higher education institutions. Within these institutions, we analyzed 736 …
Emotion, Place, And Practice: Exploring The Interplay In Children's Engagement In Ecologists' Sampling Practices, Kathryn Lanouette
Emotion, Place, And Practice: Exploring The Interplay In Children's Engagement In Ecologists' Sampling Practices, Kathryn Lanouette
School of Education Articles
In science education, there has been a sustained focus on supporting the emergence of science practices in K–12 and field-based settings. Recent work has elevated the integral role of emotion in sparking and sustaining such disciplinary practices, deepening the field's understanding of what is entailed in “doing” science. Yet even as we gain this richer understanding of practice, less attention has been given to the places where practice emerges. These places play a critical role in the co-emergence of emotion and practice, and while separate strands of research have elevated emotion and practice or, alternately, place and practice, rarely has …
Exploring How Secondary Stem Teachers And Undergraduate Mentors Adapt Digital Technologies To Promote Culturally Relevant Education During Covid-19, Meredith W. Kier, Lindy L. Johnson
Exploring How Secondary Stem Teachers And Undergraduate Mentors Adapt Digital Technologies To Promote Culturally Relevant Education During Covid-19, Meredith W. Kier, Lindy L. Johnson
School of Education Articles
The COVID-19 global pandemic presented unprecedented challenges to K-16 educators, including the closing of educational agencies and the abrupt transition to online teaching and learning. Educators sought to adapt in-person learning activities to teach in remote and hybrid online settings. This study explores how a partnership between middle and high school teachers in an urban school district and undergraduate STEM mentors of color leveraged digital tools and collaborative pedagogies to teach science, technology, and engineering during a global pandemic. We used a qualitative multi-case study to describe three cases of teachers and undergraduate mentors. We then offer a cross-case analysis …
Shifting Sands: Coastal Dunes In Motion, Elizabeth Davis
Shifting Sands: Coastal Dunes In Motion, Elizabeth Davis
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Grades: 5+ Subjects: General Science, Geology, Environmental Science
Students will use “before & after” dune profile graphics to determine how the dune has changed and hypothesize why this change occurred.
Find The Bullseye: Targeting Conservation In The Candy Darter, Jemelyn Grace P. Baldisimo
Find The Bullseye: Targeting Conservation In The Candy Darter, Jemelyn Grace P. Baldisimo
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Grade: 7th grade, ability to scale up to high school Biology Subject: Life Science
Determining a species’ risk of extinction using available data and spreading awareness for conservation of an endemic species.
From The Subsurface To The Sky: Tracking Groundwater With Drones, Stephanie Wilson
From The Subsurface To The Sky: Tracking Groundwater With Drones, Stephanie Wilson
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Grades: High School Subjects: Earth Science | Physical Science
Determining the inputs of nitrogen to coastal waters from drone based radiometric temperature data.
Topics covered:
- Technology and radiometric imagery
- Drones in science
- Groundwater
- Nutrients / pollutants
- Water cycle/ Watersheds
Gelatinous Zooplankton In Biological Systems; Case Study: Salpa Thompsoni In The Western Antarctic Peninsula, Maya Thomas
Gelatinous Zooplankton In Biological Systems; Case Study: Salpa Thompsoni In The Western Antarctic Peninsula, Maya Thomas
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Grades: 7th Subjects: Life Science
Teach about the importance of gelatinous zooplankton and examine their role in food webs, the biological pump, and the carbon cycle.
The Seagrass Is Greener On The Other Side, Lauren Alvaro
The Seagrass Is Greener On The Other Side, Lauren Alvaro
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology
Students will collect data about animals in a seagrass meadow, learn how seagrass density affects species abundance and diversity, and calculate a biodiversity index.
Searching For Sea Scallops: The Role Of Science In Fisheries Management, Kaitlyn Clark
Searching For Sea Scallops: The Role Of Science In Fisheries Management, Kaitlyn Clark
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Grades: 6-8 Subjects: Life Science | Biology
Students will collect data on populations of sea scallops and then use those data to provide recommendations for sustainably managing the fishery in the next fishing year
Shark Sanctuaries: Habitat And Climate Change, Kaitlyn O'Brien
Shark Sanctuaries: Habitat And Climate Change, Kaitlyn O'Brien
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology
Utilize data collected from scientific surveys to explore the abiotic niche of multiple coastal shark species, and evaluate suitable habitats under differing climate change conditions.
How Resilient Is It? The Resilience Quotient Zoning Ordinance, Qiong Wang, Yao Wang
How Resilient Is It? The Resilience Quotient Zoning Ordinance, Qiong Wang, Yao Wang
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Environmental Science, Earth Science, Oceanography
The Resilience Quotient (RQ) system uses zoning ordinance to address coastal resilience development issues in the city of Norfolk, Virginia. This lesson plan goes through key resilience concepts and its strategies that can promote flood risk reduction, stormwater management, and energy resilience. The activity provides several scenarios to help students understand, simulate, visualize, discuss, and practice how the Resilience Quotient works for coastal developments in the city.
Selectively Breeding Hard Clams, Leslie Speight Youtsey
Selectively Breeding Hard Clams, Leslie Speight Youtsey
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | AP Biology
Use knowledge of hard clam genotypes and inheritance patterns to cross parents and predict offspring phenotypes.
Killer From The Deep!, Tor Mowatt-Larssen
Killer From The Deep!, Tor Mowatt-Larssen
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Grades: 6-12 Subjects: Life Science | Ecology
Explore the deep-sea environment and biological adaptations to living in the deep sea through murder-mystery investigation and graphing activities.
A Call For A Humanistic Stance Toward K–12 Data Science Education, Victor R. Lee, Michelle H. Wilkerson, Kathryn Lanouette
A Call For A Humanistic Stance Toward K–12 Data Science Education, Victor R. Lee, Michelle H. Wilkerson, Kathryn Lanouette
School of Education Articles
There is growing interest in how to better prepare K–12 students to work with data. In this article, we assert that these discussions of teaching and learning must attend to the human dimensions of data work. Specifically, we draw from several established lines of research to argue that practices involving the creation and manipulation of data are shaped by a combination of personal experiences, cultural tools and practices, and political concerns. We demonstrate through two examples how our proposed humanistic stance highlights ways that efforts to make data personally relevant for youth also necessarily implicate cultural and sociopolitical dimensions that …
Dial C For Collaboration: Finding Unknowns With Your Fellow Scientists, Brianna Stanley
Dial C For Collaboration: Finding Unknowns With Your Fellow Scientists, Brianna Stanley
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Chemistry | Mathematics | Oceanography
In the sciences, collaboration is key. This exercise allows students to explore scientific collaboration and how to use "knowns" to measure an unknown using a linear equation.
Case Of The Stressed-Out Larva: A Study Of Climate Change Effects On Oyster Cellular Physiology, Annie Schatz
Case Of The Stressed-Out Larva: A Study Of Climate Change Effects On Oyster Cellular Physiology, Annie Schatz
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Advanced Biology | Chemistry | Oceanography
Using a jigsaw puzzle approach, students will piece together the results of three molecular measures to understand how warming and acidified waters affect the health of oyster larvae.
Antimicrobial Sensitivity Testing: The Search For Antibiotics, Amanpreet Kohli
Antimicrobial Sensitivity Testing: The Search For Antibiotics, Amanpreet Kohli
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Life Science | Biology
Examining agar plates, students determining the effectiveness of antibiotics for fish pathogens.
Fish Census: Monitoring Finfish Populations In Chesapeake Bay, Rachel Dixon
Fish Census: Monitoring Finfish Populations In Chesapeake Bay, Rachel Dixon
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Life Science | Biology | Oceanography
In this activity, students will utilize data collected from a scientific survey to explore where different fishes live in a coastal estuary, and how their populations change over time.
High To Low: Exploring Estuarine Gradients, Cristin Wright
High To Low: Exploring Estuarine Gradients, Cristin Wright
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Earth Science | Biology | Oceanography
In this lesson, student scientists will examine nutrients, suspended sediment, and phytoplankton level then plot their results to track estuarine gradients.
Growing Up Is Hard: Vertical Accretion In Salt Marshes, Alex Smith
Growing Up Is Hard: Vertical Accretion In Salt Marshes, Alex Smith
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Environmental Science | Oceanography
In this exercise, students will use graphing to examine the importance of natural environmental feedbacks on marsh survival.
Sunny-Side-Up: Temperature & Lobster Egg Development, Abigail Sisti
Sunny-Side-Up: Temperature & Lobster Egg Development, Abigail Sisti
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Grades: 6-12 Subjects: Biology
This lesson allows students to use math and science to characterize the effects of temperature on lobster egg development. Students will measure features of lobster eggs at different time points and plot how they change across development. This development will be compared between lobsters from different environments, and students will be asked to draw conclusions about how these differences may relate to lobster performance and climate change.
Migrating To Motherhood: The Story Of Female Blue Crabs In Their Ecosystem, Alex Schnieder
Migrating To Motherhood: The Story Of Female Blue Crabs In Their Ecosystem, Alex Schnieder
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Grades: 6-12 Subjects: Life Science
This lesson guides students through an investigation of the migratory patterns of blue crabs, their life stages, ecosystem use by life stage, harvest, and human impacts to their population.
Watercolors: Relating Properties Of Light To Organic Matter And Ecosystem Production, Derek Detweiler
Watercolors: Relating Properties Of Light To Organic Matter And Ecosystem Production, Derek Detweiler
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Chemistry | Biology | Oceanography | Environmental Science
Using properties of light, students will determine the source and composition of dissolved organic matter in estuaries influenced by different land types its subsequent relationship with ecosystem production.
Etiology In Action: Identifying Aquaculture Disease Threats Through Data Analysis, Malina Loeher
Etiology In Action: Identifying Aquaculture Disease Threats Through Data Analysis, Malina Loeher
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Environmental Science | Oceanography
How do scientists identify emerging disease threats? In this lesson, students will examine fish health, aquatic disease ecology, and aquaculture practices to answer this question.
Marsh Migration Mania!, Emily Goetz
Marsh Migration Mania!, Emily Goetz
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Grades: 6-12 Subjects: Life Science | Environmental Science
In this lesson, students investigate sea-level rise and migration of saltmarsh invertebrates in a "ghost forest."
Cultivating Diversity Champions: Practices And Lessons From Two Nsf Geoscience Opportunities For Leadership In Diversity (Gold) Projects, American Society For Engineering Education
Cultivating Diversity Champions: Practices And Lessons From Two Nsf Geoscience Opportunities For Leadership In Diversity (Gold) Projects, American Society For Engineering Education
School of Education Open Educational Resources
The United States needs a diverse scientific workforce in order to tap fresh thinking and talent needed to advance the country’s competitive edge and economic well-being. This is particularly true in the geoscience fields, where women and people of color have been underrepresented for decades. Geoscience expertise is crucial to weather forecasting, sea commerce, air safety, protecting communities from wildfires and many other applications.
The National Science Foundation’s Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity, which ran from 2016 to 2019, sought ways to improve diversity, inclusion and equity in the geosciences. Its five projects took different approaches, but all faced …
Feeding Time: How Nutrients Drive Phytoplankton Growth, Brianna Stanley
Feeding Time: How Nutrients Drive Phytoplankton Growth, Brianna Stanley
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Environmental Science | Oceanography
This lesson plan helps students make the connection between the amount of nutrients present in an ecosystem and the resulting growth of phytoplankton in our coastal waters. This lesson takes this concept a step deeper, by exploring how the proportions of nitrogen and phosphorus in the environment create the ideal conditions for phytoplankton growth. Students will explore the concept of limiting factors and will work on both their graphing skills and their ability to compare ratios.
Using Long-Term Data From Antarctica To Teach Ocean Acidification, Patrica S. Thibodeau
Using Long-Term Data From Antarctica To Teach Ocean Acidification, Patrica S. Thibodeau
VIMS Articles
There is a mystery to be solved! This lesson plan asks students to identify the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of ocean acidification (OA). Global oceans have absorbed approximately a third of the CO2 produced by human activities, such as burning of fossil fuels, over the past decade (Sabine et al. 2004). This accumulation of CO2 in the ocean has lowered average global ocean pH and decreased the concentration of carbonate ions (CO/ ) (Fabry et al. 2008). As a result of this OA, the carbonate chemistry of the global ocean is rapidly changing and affecting marine organisms …
The Mo(Ve)Ment To Prioritize Antiracist Mathematics: Planning For This And Every School Year, Maria Del Rosario Zavala, Ma Bernadette Andres-Salgarino, Zandra De Araujo, Amber G. Candela, Gladys Krause, Erin Sylves
The Mo(Ve)Ment To Prioritize Antiracist Mathematics: Planning For This And Every School Year, Maria Del Rosario Zavala, Ma Bernadette Andres-Salgarino, Zandra De Araujo, Amber G. Candela, Gladys Krause, Erin Sylves
School of Education Articles
"Dear Colleague,
TODOS: Mathematics for ALL is proud of its almost two decades of advocacy for equity and excellence for all children in mathematics education, specifically Latina/o children. Over the years, TODOS has delivered webinars, podcasts, blogs, conferences, and resources for educators, families, and children to address and provide tools to eliminate the harmful practices too many children and families experience in school and in life. This position statement, The Mo(ve)ment to Prioritize Antiracist Mathematics: Planning for This and Every School Year, and supporting commentaries, including one commentary in Spanish - place the essential actions of the 2016 NCSM - …
Isotopes In The Estuary: Conception And Application Of Stable And Radioactive Carbon, Derek Detweiler
Isotopes In The Estuary: Conception And Application Of Stable And Radioactive Carbon, Derek Detweiler
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Chemistry | Environmental Science | Oceanography
In this interactive estuary-focused activity, students will examine stable and radioactive isotope data which provide information about the source and age of environmental samples such as plant and soil matter. Students will calculate average isotope ratios from five reference land types (forest, wetland, agriculture, industry, aquatic) and an unknown site within an estuary. Students will graph their calculated ratios and determine the land type that most impacts their estuary based on reference-to-unknown comparisons.