Science
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 ...
Ideas and Best Practices to Teach Science Through Distance Learning
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 ...
Fingerprinting Techniques and Activities for Remote Learning
Join National Geographic Learning for an exciting webinar enabling you to provide your students with at-home, hands-on activities for Forensic Science that use simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-find materials. Get advice and directions to make and use ...
Students Become Real Scientists with Citizen Science Projects
Here are two things that are still taking place normally in this extraordinary time of pandemics and social distancing:Kids still need new activities and learning opportunities to stay happy and engaged, andScientists still need new data collected to ...