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Shell Science Lab Challenge now open, offering a lab makeover

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Chance to Win Up to $93,000 in prizes, including a $20,000 science lab makeover. Registration has opened for the 2015-2016 Shell Science Lab Challenge. The Challenge, which is sponsored by Shell Oil Company and administered by the National Science Teachers Association, encourages science teachers (grades 6-12) in the U.S.

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Effective Learning with Pre-Laboratory Videos: A Practical Teaching Strategy 

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Much like a carpenter meticulously plans and measures before cutting into wood, pre-laboratory videos provide students with a detailed and visual understanding, serving as an outline to help prepare for upcoming laboratory sessions. 2022; Ouyang et al., 2022; Ouyang et al., 2006; Saxena et al.,

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Effective Learning with Pre-Laboratory Videos: A Practical Teaching Strategy 

Faculty Focus

Much like a carpenter meticulously plans and measures before cutting into wood, pre-laboratory videos provide students with a detailed and visual understanding, serving as an outline to help prepare for upcoming laboratory sessions. 2022; Ouyang et al., 2022; Ouyang et al., 2006; Saxena et al.,

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14-year-old Named America’s Top Young Scientist for Inventing an AI Handheld Pesticide Detector

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  – 3M (@3M) and Discovery Education (@DiscoveryEd) named Sirish Subash, a 9 th grader at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology in Snellville, Georgia, the winner of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation’s premier middle school science competition. Paul, Minnesota, on Oct.

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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April.

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43 back-to-school predictions for the 2024-2025 year

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— Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. It’s important to be able to answer not only if a solution works, but for whom, and under what conditions.

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K–12 Teachers Use Augmented and Virtual Reality Platforms to Teach Biology

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Growing demand for mixed reality content, to increase engagement, has sparked a wave of creativity in how immersive tools are used in the classroom, especially in traditionally abstract topics such as math and computer science. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 teachers are using VR to teach computer science. by Eli Zimmerman.

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