The Scientists With the Coolest Jobs [Livestream]
As I recently told a crowd of science educators, I didn't discover my own interest in science until I was an adult, at which point is was far too late to switch careers.
Budding Scientist
Everything you always wanted to know about raising science-literate kids
Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists
The following excerpt from Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists (TED Books, 2013) by Ainissa Ramirez—a science evangelist, material scientist and one of Scientific American’s Google Science Fair judges—has been reproduced with permission from TED Books...
Adventurous Math For the Playground Set
Guest post by math educators Maria Droujkova and Yelena McManaman, authors of the new family math book “Moebius Noodles: Adventurous Math for the Playground Crowd” Children dream big...
To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science
A student from High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey CREDIT: Marissa Hazel Guest Post by Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross , teachers at High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey Women and girls are historically underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and much has been written lately about why girls in school seem disinterested in these areas...
Top Universities Will Help Train STEM Teachers
A Preschooler touches a porcupine pufferfish that her science teacher brought in. Via mtsofan on Flickr. A group of Tier 1 research universities -- the Stanfords, Harvards and MITs of the world – will join the White House-led effort to train 100,000 new math and science teachers by the year 2022...
Free Kits Help 10-Year-Olds See Their DNA
Bio-Rad's "Genes in a Bottle" Kit. CREDIT: Helene Brazier-Mitouart Invited Guest Post by Helene Brazier-Mitouart I have a Ph.D.
Students with Autism Gravitate Toward STEM Majors
Invited Guest Post by Marissa Fessenden (@marisfessenden) U.S. business and policy leaders have made it a priority to increase the number of students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, collectively known as STEM...
"Skull in the Rock" Brings New Paleo Science to Kids [Excerpt]
In 2008, the 9-year-old son of paleoanthropologist Lee Berger discovered a fossil that landed Berger's team on the covers of the journal Science, of Scientific American, and on the front pages of newspapers including The New York Times...
Why America's Kids Need New Standards for Science Education
Image courtesy of Penn State and pennstatelive, via Flickr Earlier today, a group of scientists, educators and policymakers released the newest draft of the Next Generation Science Standards, which lay out ambitious expectations for what elementary, middle and high school students should learn at each grade level...
Kids' Science Books for Stormy Weather
Like many families in the path of superstorm Sandy, we’ve spent much of the last week indoors trying to stay sane. Fortunately, we live in a part of Brooklyn that was spared the worst storm damage, so I had the luxury of finally reading the children's science books that have been piling up on my desk at work...
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