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Discovery Museum Launches Its 3rd Hands-on STEM Distance Learning Resource

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Discovery Museum announced today the launch of its Feel the Force laboratory toolkit, the first offering in a new product series for K-5 remote learning called Field Trip on Tour. Thousands of students and their teachers have participated in the Museum’s live virtual STEM workshops this school year.

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The Case For Applying Cognitive Psychology in Your Classroom

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How Learning Science Happens Cognitive psychologists interested in the science of learning use the laboratory-to-classroom model to conduct research (Weinstein & Sumeracki, 2019). Our research most often begins in the basic laboratory level.

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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

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And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. New students participate in an orientation that aims to teach them how to become “autonomous learners” ready for an intensive academic program, says provost Robert Savukinas.

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New Bill Could Bring CS Programs to 500K JROTC Students—and Diversify the Future Workforce

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A report by the RAND Corporation found that JROTC is well-represented among public high schools with large minority populations, and strongly represented in schools serving economically disadvantaged populations, whether measured by Title I eligibility or free and reduced-price lunch program participation. Excerpted from H.R.

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How the Pandemic May Help More Students See Themselves as Scientists

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To create the videos, we filmed mentor and mentee pairs of students who identify as Black, Latino/a, South Asian, and Persian as they shared lunches and laboratories while studying material science, chemistry, microbiological organisms and neurological brain functions. Researchers worried about funds running dry.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis. Citizen science allows the common public to participate in important scientific studies, partnering with scientists and helping them with work crucial to the enhancement of human knowledge.

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CA's Maker Initiative Spurs Innovation and Workforce Development Across 35 Community Colleges

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Many students are drawn to Laney’s Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab), for various reasons. Instructor: Heather Lee. Heather Lee is a mother of two children, a creative maker, and a Hacker Lab instructor at Sierra College. Here’s a snapshot of the making that’s already happening around California: Student: Dev Varat.