Posts in category: Webinar – Science

National Geographic Learning, a part of Cengage Group, and Kognity collaborate to bridge “achievement gaps” in the educational resources market. Together we are bringing high-quality, modern and engaging learning experience to high school science classrooms. With Kognity, educators can more easily drive academic achievement and success on high-stakes assessments by tracking student performance and usage of the digital platform. Kognity provides both educators and students with high-quality, engaging materials that improve students’ exam readiness.

The need for student identification and belonging in the scientific community begins in the biology curriculum. This requires equity-mindedness and meaningful inclusion that supports equitable classroom practices and equity science content and pedago ...

Use inexpensive DNA teaching models to help students understand the structure of DNA, chromosomes, genes, and STRs (Short Tandem Repeats). Engage students through phenomenon-based learning to solve the identity of a 9/11 victim using STR profile anal ...

Anusha Shankar has spent 9 years studying how hummingbirds manage their energy and their time. In the process, she started collecting data on herself – especially her moods and what they were influenced by, and her time and how she allocated it. Anus ...

In this session, we explore a wide variety of earth science phenomena and how to apply these to high school earth science lessons. We tour Yellowstone's unique geologic system and consider how it can form the basis for phenomena-based lessons that wi ...

Teaching the Nature of Science is more important than ever. The events of the past year have emphasized the need for greater understanding of science as a way of knowing and how scientific knowledge is developed. Yet teachers still have concerns abou ...

In this session, we explore a wide variety of science phenomena from high school earth and space science and how to apply these to hands-on science lessons. Utilizing resources from National Geographic and the new Earth & Space Science program, w ...

Engaging K–8 students in the current environment is especially challenging. With the demands on teachers to keep students on-task through distance learning or with social distancing in classrooms, science instruction time is being sacrificed for othe ...