#ScienceEd

1 week ago

NSTA Kids invites students to step outside, look up, and rediscover the wonder of the night sky ✨

“Next Time You See a Star” blends poetic storytelling with real science for grades K–5. Perfect for read-alouds & NGSS-aligned Earth & Space lessons. 🌌

Learn more: bit.ly/4r8Nduy

#ScienceEd #NGSS

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1 week ago

OpenSciEd Elementary Unit 4 instructional materials for grades K–5 are now public on the OpenSciEd website. EQuIP reports are also available on the NSTA website to guide high-quality science teaching. bit.ly/3Mk0fqM
#ScienceEd #STEM

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Andrew Fraknoi

@fraknoi.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Heads Up: Lunar Eclipse March 3
Total #lunareclipse coming early morning of March 3. Very democratic, everyone in N America can see. My explanatory sheet in everyday language: bit.ly/2026eclipse
#astronomy #astroed #science #scienceed #amateurastronomy #sky #eclipses #space #outerspace

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Educ8r

@sci-snap.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

The anchoring phenomenon represented here is Animal Adaptations for Survival. Specifically, the Killdeer demonstrates how physical characteristics and behaviors (like "broken-wing" displays, which this species is famous for) allow an organism to survive in a specific environment. The cryptic coloration of its back helps it blend into the ground to avoid predators while nesting, while the bold chest stripes break up its outline (disruptive coloration), making it harder for predators to track its exact shape when it moves.

🐦 Meet the killdeer — a master of *distraction*!
When predators near its nest, it feigns injury to lead them away.
Perfect for K-2 lessons on animal adaptations & survival.

Explore 150+ visual science lessons:
www.sciencesnapshot.com

#ScienceEd #AnimalAdaptations #K5 #BirdPhotography

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Educ8r

@sci-snap.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

Explore 150+ visual science lessons:
www.sciencesnapshot.com

Exploring the natural world through photography and AI.

#ScienceEd #NGSS #STEM #EdTech #Photography #NaturePhotography

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1 month ago

How to draw this: Origin poing at bottom center, with horizontal and vertical axes Diagonal "light rays" (dashed, yellow-outlined) going up-left and up-right from the origin to the edge of the page. A whole lot of square hyperbolas filling in the upper quadrant between the light rays, each centered on the origin point, symmetrical around vertical axis, curving upwards to either side, and converging on the light rays as asymptotes. The left half of one hyperbola is emphasized and labeled "goodbye cruel world", emphasis ends at the vertical axis merging into a horizontal line that proceeds rightwards off the page, labeled "omg, aaaaaaaaa....", and then, after crossing through the up-right light-ray, "WTFF??"

Also my favorite diagram so far,,illustrating what happens when you jump out of the John Hancock Tower (i.e., the version that has fake gravity):

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1 month ago

Part 6
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/72287.html

in which, having established what (little) math we actually need, we get to the truly fun part:

How constant acceleration works
a.k.a.
What you need to know re
Faking Gravity in Special Relativity.

It is **a** **lot** weirder than you would expect […]

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1 month ago

Part 5:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71989.html
about how to transform between Moving and Stationary People coordinates (Lorentz transformations) and what velocity angles are (they're like rotation angles, but different)

(tring to make this accessible to folks who haven't seen a whole lot of […]

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Education Matters

@edmatters4all.bsky.social

1 month ago

𝗙𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 | 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 | 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵
education-matters.org
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴, 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵.

#wellbeing #leadership #management #EngChat #ELAChat #MathChat #SciChat #ScienceEd #EarlyEd #ElemChat

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American Modeling Teachers Association (AMTA)

@modelinginstruction.org

1 month ago

Image is a Black History Spotlight of Dr. Charles Drew and features a portrait of him circa 1949. He is known as the "Father of he Blood Bank" in medical history. #saturdaysciencestories

Image is a Black History Spotlight of Dr. Charles Drew and features a photo of his graduating class of McGill University Medical School. Image overlayed with highlights of his role as an educator and barrier-breaker.

Photos courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. The Charles R. Drew Papers.

❤️ Feb 7th - #NationalWearRedDay! At AMTA, we thing about "red" through 3 lenses: 🔭 Physics: Long wavelengths (700nm) ⚗️ Chemistry: Iron coordination in heme 🩸 Biology: Hemoglobin’s oxygen bond. Plus, honoring Dr. Charles Drew—the pioneer of blood plasma preservation. #BlackHistoryMonth #ScienceEd

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1 month ago

Looking for a new way to spark classroom discussion? 💡

NSTA’s latest case study, Beat a Different Drum, has students analyze a real study on group drumming and depression—evaluating research design, validity, and how findings are presented online.

Explore it ➝ bit.ly/4acoTl4

#NSTA #ScienceEd

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1 month ago

Strengthen your science PL 💪

NSTA partners with districts to deliver customized professional learning focused on sensemaking, curriculum implementation, OpenSciEd support, and ongoing coaching—designed to scale across schools.

Learn more ➝ bit.ly/4ar9HSu

#NSTA #ScienceEd #ProfessionalLearning

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1 month ago

The NSTA Weekly Web Seminar Roundup is here! Join us for an upcoming professional learning opportunity:

🧩 OpenSciEd | Jan 21
🧭 Support shifts | Jan 21
❄️ Arctic Report | Jan 29
📘 Science Notebooks | Feb 4, 11, 18, 25

Register 👉 bit.ly/49PV22W

#NSTA #ScienceEd #ProfessionalLearning

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1 month ago

Why aren't the okapis breeding? 🦒🕵️♀️In this free lesson by Rebecca Brewer, students solve an animal welfare mystery via: 🧪 "Simulated urine" testing 🧠 Modeling hormone pathways 📐 Zoo enclosure redesign

Includes Lizard & Pigeon #APBio extensions!
📥 Download: bit.ly/sclrebecca #EduSky #ScienceEd #STEM

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1 month ago

How to draw this: black line, slope 1/2 (rising left to right) Dots (events) on it, equally spaced: 'Sent' near the left edge 'Halfway Tick' in the middle 'Received' near the right edge label "Δt" on either side of 'Halfway Tick' blue line, slope 2, through 'Halfway Tick' to top edge Dot 'Ground Zero' down a bit the top edge label "Δz" for segment above 'Halfway Tick' black line through 'Ground Zero', parallel to first line, label "Ground Zero Moving Person, no no no aaaaaa" two black segments join 'Ground Zero' to 'Sent' and 'Received' label "interval = -y² larger dot 'Overpass' above+a bit left of 'Ground Zero' + dashed yellow segments join 'Overpass' to 'Sent' and 'Received' depicted as if above the page

Part 4:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71432.html

On the Storrow Drive Theorem

This is on how, having developed how one does spacetime for a 1-dimensional universe, how you put back the 2nd and 3rd spatial dimensions,

and the key question is what […]

[Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

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1 month ago

Should we use biotech to save a species? 🌳🧬 In this free lesson by Renee Haines, students dive into real-world #conservation case studies like the American chestnut.

Groups collaborate to review evidence, build Case Study Posters, and lead a Gallery Walk.

📥 Download: bit.ly/sclrenee
#ScienceEd

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2 months ago

How do you teach students that science is a process, not facts? 🔬
Check out this #NatureofScience lesson from 2023 NJ TOY Christine Girtain.

🎲 Solve the Hypothesis Cube 🌱 Explore nitrogen cycling & Indigenous STEM in our award-winning film

📥 Download for free: bit.ly/sclchristine

#ScienceEd #STEM

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