Science
Navigating Climate Change on a Bike: Riding Through Fire Season
Join us in this three-part series as we bike 800 miles down Oregon and California, exploring the impacts of COVID and climate change in coastal communities. This series focuses on stories of people, place, and change. We just wanted to sleep in. But ...
How Google Classroom Prevails in a Post-Covid Landscape
How many of us have a notebook or at least one Post-It(s) somewhere in our office with a password written down for online access to something? According to a new study (2021), BetaNews.com reports that 57 percent of American employees are cur ...
Biking the Pacific Coast: People, Place, and Change in a COVID World
Join us in this three-part series as we bike 800 miles down Oregon and California, exploring the impacts of COVID and climate change in coastal communities. This series focuses on stories of people, place, and change. We were biking a towering cliff ...
Teaching Phenomena-Based Earth Science Using the Geology of Yellowstone
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 ...
Meeting Social and Emotional Learning Needs – A Critical Part of College and Career Readiness for High School Students
311 days. Never would I have guessed on March 16th, 2020 that our then ninth grader would go 311 days without being in the same physical space as her peers and her beloved teachers. While she values the college and career preparedness high school of ...
Teaching the Nature of Science: Strategies and Resources for Student Success
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 ...
Teaching Phenomena-Based Earth & Space Science
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 ...
5 Ideas to Teach Science Through Distance Learning
Finding time to engage students in science was already challenging enough before being forced into distance learning by a pandemic. Now with synchronous instruction time with students even less than before when you were in class, it’s nearly impossib ...