Webinar: Bio-Ready America: Advancing Biotech Education through CTE Pathways
Biotechnology is reshaping industries across the country—from manufacturing and agriculture to healthcare and national security—creating a fast-growing demand for students who understand the science and can demonstrate real-world laboratory skills. For Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, this moment presents an exceptional opportunity to offer students a pathway into high-wage, high-demand careers through accessible, hands-on […]
Webinar: Cultivating Student Agency with Driving Question Boards
Cultivating Student Agency with Driving Question Boards Placing students in the driver’s seat doesn’t only enrich their learning experiences, it builds valuable, lifelong skills in decision-making, problem-solving, and teamwork. Using learning strategies that foster student agency, like driving question boards (DQB), lets learners take an active role in investigations using evidence-based questions, transforming classrooms into […]
Get To Know Your Microscope
Get to know your microscope Microscopes give us the power to observe the world up close. By becoming familiar with their different parts and understanding how they work, you can get the most out of your microscope and the lab experience. Download PDF Activity 6. Eyepiece (Ocular Lens)-The lens you look through, often with 10x […]
Case Study: Streamlining the Purchasing Process through E-procurement
When Christopher Rust came to Connecticut College as the director of purchasing in the spring of 2017, he was faced with a challenge: the private liberal arts college with just shy of 2,000 students had a decentralized procurement environment. “They did not have an e-procurement platform. They were highly decentralized in their procurement practices,” he […]
Webinar: Teaching Science of Reading in Science Class
The Science of Reading practices can be meaningfully integrated into hands-on and inquiry-based science instruction. Scientists and engineers spend half their time reading, interpreting, and producing text. In this webinar, former reading specialist and literacy expert, Dr. Erin Bailey, and Smithsonian Science Education Center Manager of K–8 Curriculum, Dr. Sarah Glassman, partner to share how […]
Classroom Chromatography Using Calcium Carbonate: Chalk It Up
Interactive Chromatography Lab for students: separate marker pigments using chalk, water, and filter paper. Includes step?by?step instructions, materials list, and scientific background for hands?on classroom learning.
Cooking Chemistry: Not-Your-Traditional Pumpkin Pie
Explore the chemistry of cooking with this hands-on lesson: from preparing pumpkin pie from scratch to understanding molecular transformations in each step.
Case Study: Carolina Kits 3D® Labs Skyrocket Student Interest and Learning with Phenomenon-Based Investigations
Fast Facts Teacher Participants: Ginger Demers, Rio Hondo Prep School, Arcadia, CA Mary Buchanan, Sir Francis Drake High School, Larkspur, CA Richard Smith, Buena High School, Ventura, CA Challenge: Spark student interest in labs, build their 3-dimensional learning skills as outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards* (NGSS), and make it easy for teachers to […]
Evolution and Antibacterial Resistance
Evolution can be a difficult and abstract concept to teach. Students may have heard about antibiotics that no longer kill or inhibit the growth of certain bacteria, but they may not understand the evolutionary changes that occur within bacteria to make this possible. It is a great example of how living organisms can change and […]
Answering Questions about Mammalian Reproductive Cycles
Understanding the concepts of mammalian reproduction is key for broader discussions of evolution, biodiversity, ecology, and animal behavior.