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The Value Of Stem As An Educational Tool For Enhancing Cognitive Development, Alessandra Olmedo Robles, Leaders 20/20

San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative

STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. The focus of STEM education is to provide a holistic approach through hands-on, problem-based learning where students are able to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to real world problems.

Cooking With Chemistry: Marshmallows, Admin Stem For Success

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This lesson plan teaches students thermodynamics, foam, and other chemistry topics by cooking marshmallows.

Magnetic Slime, Admin Stem For Success

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Students learn chemistry and physics by making magnetic slime.

Earthquake Resistant Buildings, Admin Stem For Success

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Students learn about earthquakes and engineering by building a structure that can survive an earthquake.

Invisible Ink, Admin Stem For Success

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Students create invisible ink to hide and reveal a message using chemistry.

Goonie Shooters Activity, Admin Stem For Success

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Students are asked to design a "Goon Shooter" to launch "goons" as far as possible.

Lesson Plans In Astronomy, Ecology And Biology, Admin Stem For Success

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This document contains various lesson plan ideas for concepts within the fields of biology, ecology, astronomy, and geology.

Candy Heart Experiment, Admin Stem For Success

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Students practice the scientific process by running an experiment to discover how well candy hearts dissolve in different liquids.

Sleigh Race Project, Admin Stem For Success

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Students use their knowledge of physics and design to build both a sleigh and a slope for the sleigh to travel on.

Basketballs And Energy, Admin Stem For Success

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Nail Steam Activity, Admin Stem For Success, Natalie Wilson

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Activity where students use nails to practice concepts relating to center of gravity

Rubber Band Car Activity, Admin Stem For Success, Natalie Wilson

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Student learn about forces and engineering by designing a car powered by rubber bands

Money And Energy, Admin Stem For Success, Natalie Wilson

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Money is related to physics concepts to teach students about work, potential energy and conservation of energy

Magnetism Activity, Admin Stem For Success

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This interactive activity teaches students about magnetism.

Sugar Water Density Activity, Admin Stem For Success

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In this activity students learn about density using sugar water. Attached is the activity's lesson plan and a teacher reflection on the activity.

Physical And Chemical Changes Lesson Plan, Admin Stem For Success

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Lesson plan and video for an activity on the difference between physical and chemical changes.

The Science Of Baking Bread, Admin Stem For Success

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Activity plan to teach biology and chemistry using a lesson on the baking of bread.

Area Activity, Admin Stem For Success

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Lesson plan to teach students about area including an activity plan, activity description, activity video, and additional activity materials

Storm In A Glass Lesson Plan, Admin Stem For Success

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Lesson Plan and Video Demonstration for the "Storm in a Glass" Activity, which teaches students about precipitation.

The Proof Is In The Pudding – Using Perceived Stress To Measure Short-Term Impact In Initiatives To Enhance Gender Balance In Computing Education, Alina Berry, Sarah Jane Delany

Academic Posters Collection

The problem of gender imbalance in computing higher education has forced academics and professionals to implement a wide range of initiatives. Many initiatives use recruitment or retention numbers as their most obvious evidence of impact. This type of evidence of impact is, however, more resource heavy to obtain, as well as often requires a longitudinal approach. There are many shorter term initiatives that use other ways to measure their success.

First, this poster presents with a review of existing evaluation measures in interventions to recruit and retain women in computing education across the board. Three main groups of evaluation come …

Evaluation Of Gender-Based Differences In Primary School Maths Education: The Potential Of Digital Games, Maíra Amaral

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Digital Game-Based Learning is shown to be a more effective instructional method than traditional instruction, however less effective than other technology-supported instruction according to Byun and Joung (2018). Regarding gender aspects, according to findings by Mclaren and colleagues in 2022, girls may learn more mathematics from digital learning games than boys. In their study, even reporting greater behavioural and cognitive engagement, boys did not learn more with the game than girls.

Computer Science Outreach To Inform Secondary School Students’ Perceptions Of Computer Science: Preliminary Findings, Karen Nolan, Roisin Faherty, Keith Quille, Keith Nolan, Amanda O'Farrell, Brett A. Becker

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This poster describes a longitudinal K-12 outreach programme to promote Computer Science in Ireland, which ran over a three-year period from 2017- 2020. A pilot phase was conducted in the first year from 2017-2018 with 2900 students participating. The implementation phase began in 2018, when 7320 students participated across the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years. The programme consisted of a free onsite school delivery of a two-hour camp that introduced students to a range of Computing topics: addressing computing perceptions, introduction to coding, and exploration of computational thinking. Schools self-selected, and the programme reached a large number of schools with …

Review Of Seeking An Aurora By Elizabeth Pulford, Katie E. Gosman

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Relativity Lite: A Pictorial Translation Of Einstein’S Theories Of Motion And Gravity, Jack C. Straton

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Relativity Lite is designed for the General Astronomy sequence (PH 361-2U, SCI 315-6U) whose primary book glosses over Special Relativity and General Relativity while trying to explain the Cosmology that is based on those subjects. Relativity Lite translates the mathematical equations conventional relativity texts rely upon into pictures that are readily understood and contain within them the mathematical essentials. This book provides the comprehensive coverage needed to understand, in sufficient depth, these three linked areas of our reality.

Readers seeking this knowledge on their own, and those in other courses for nonscientists, may also find it helpful.

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Lectures On Mathematical Computing With Python, Jay Gopalakrishnan

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This open resource is a collection of class activities for use in undergraduate courses aimed at teaching mathematical computing, and computational thinking in general, using the python programming language. It was developed for a second-year course (MTH 271) revamped for a new undergraduate program in data science at Portland State University. The activities are designed to guide students' use of python modules effectively for scientific computation, data analysis, and visualization.

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Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual For Science And Action - Version 2.0, Frank Granshaw

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The Climate Toolkit is a resource manual designed to help the reader navigate the complex and perplexing issue of climate change by providing tools and strategies to explore the underlying science. As such it contains a collection of activities that make use of readily available on-line resources developed by research groups and public agencies. These include web-based climate models, climate data archives, interactive atlases, policy papers, and “solution” catalogs. Unlike a standard textbook, it is designed to help readers do their own climate research and devise their own perspective rather than providing them with a script to assimilate and repeat. …

Astronomy For Educators, Daniel E. Barth

Open Educational Resources

Astronomy for Educators provides new and accomplished K-12 instructors with concepts and projects for low-cost, high-impact STEM classroom instruction that is built around the National Academies National Research Council's K-12 Framework for Science Education.

Florida Science: The Science That Makes Florida Different, Terence W. Cavanaugh

Secondary Level Resources

This book was created to assist students with their understanding of how science occurs in Florida. When teaching science or any subject it’s important to remember to begin with the concrete and then move to the abstract. I have found that it has helped my students when I begin by teaching science concepts in a concrete manner and expand from there. For example, when I taught about topographic maps, the students were much more successful in their learning when I started with local topographic maps that included the school and the surrounding area than with places that had mountains or …

Data Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of The L-Sections Of Ma 112, Mil'yonta Williams

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Labs For Calculus: Learning Through Collaborative Discovery, Ryan Mckinney

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