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NASA GLOBE Cloud Resources for Synchronous and
Asynchronous Learning
NASA GLOBE Cloud resources provide a variety of ways for
diverse learners to engage in the science process in their local community
through citizen science.
Takeaways: 1. NASA GLOBE Cloud resources are free and flexible and allow diverse learners to engage with content in many ways; 2. A NASA scientist will discuss why citizen science observations are important to NASA; and 3. Learners can actively participate in citizen science in their own community.
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NASA GLOBE Cloud Resources for Synchronous and
Asynchronous Learning
NASA GLOBE Cloud resources provide a variety of ways for
diverse learners to engage in the science process in their local community
through citizen science.
Takeaways: 1. NASA GLOBE Cloud resources are free and flexible and allow diverse learners to engage with content in many ways; 2. A NASA scientist will discuss why citizen science observations are important to NASA; and 3. Learners can actively participate in citizen science in their own community.
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The Journey Back: Leveraging Data Tools and EdTech
in the Post-COVID Classroom
Engage in a lesson from NOAA’s Data in the Classroom to
explore some effective engagement and assessment tools and technologies for the
post-COVID classroom.
Takeaways: 1. Keep experimenting with EdTech inside and outside of your classrooms; 2. Utilize EdTech for assessment and engagement of all learners in the classroom; and 3.
Access scientific data from NOAA to help students evaluate claims, construct arguments, and better understand the world around them.
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Preservice Day Session: Making Science
Fairs More Equitable Online
Come hear how preservice teachers organized and hosted a
virtual science fair that aligns with the NGSS science practices—and
learn how to do this yourself!
Takeaways: Learn how: 1. to hold a science fair virtually; 2. to align the traditional science fair project with the NGSS science and engineering practices; and 3. preservice teachers can learn from this real-world practicum experience.
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Summer STEM Institute Goes Virtual: Creating an Engaging
STEM Learning Program
We will share the strategies and activities that made
our first virtual STEM institute an engaging and educational experience for
diverse upper elementary and middle level youth.
Takeaways: Participants will: 1. identify best practices for engaging youth in informal STEM experiences, including an end-of-summer celebration; 2. learn how we delivered programming in STEM with multiple grade-level bands; and 3. gain a list of valuable resources we used to teach scientific concepts, including how we created and distributed kits.
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Continuing Collaborative Experimentation When Students
Must Be Remote: Solutions and Perceptions
Struggling to deliver lab experiences simultaneously to
in-person and remote students in large numbers? Come learn how we did it and
share your solutions too.
Takeaways: 1. The approach one takes to delivering online/hybrid laboratory experience depends on learning objectives; 2.
Course-based research experiences can be conducted through remote collaborations; and 3.
Students acknowledge benefits of online/hybrid research experiences.
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