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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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STEM Programs: How to Choose the Right Major

STEM Education Guide

Let’s explore some essential questions to consider as you explore STEM education. This will help to encourage their critical thinking, a skill they’ll take with them throughout their lives and into their college higher education. It includes topics such as chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy, and geology.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

Social characteristics include population demographics, such as age, race, languages spoken and level of education. When I was younger, I always loved math and science. I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Dr Sarah Harris Theoretical physicist, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds. Learning computing and computer programming will also be beneficial.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Sadi Carnot was born in 1796, and was largely educated by his father until he went to college in 1812. Sadi Carnot was by that point a well-educated but professionally undistinguished French military engineer. This is therefore not a fact peculiar to astronomy; reversibility is a necessary consequence of all mechanistic hypotheses.

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