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7 Popular Science Museums

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Science museums from all around the world capture and document this knowledge allowing anyone interested in learning about science, to access this wealth of knowledge and learn about major achievements and milestones that got us where we are today. The Museum of Natural Sciences contains several galleries and sections.

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What Brain Science Says About How to Better Teach Teenagers

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Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. It's a time when we learn to communicate. The science is correlational. It's a time when we can then understand the landscape, the social landscape that we're in.

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How to Create Differentiated NGSS Science Lessons using Propello

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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter NGSS Science Standards lessons require a high level of excellence. Additionally, science teachers often miss out on extra support for reaching their students who learn differently. Propello makes it possible. Propello sponsored this post.

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Computer Science is Growing in K-12 Schools, But Access Doesn’t Equal Participation

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Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. percent of students are enrolled in a computer science class.

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Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science

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Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. Andrea Chiba, a professor of cognitive science in the program for neuroscience at the University of California at San Diego. There were six U.S.

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Scholars Create Graphic Novel to Spur Discussion of Inequity in Computer Science

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Who gets to learn about computer science in school? While a growing number of schools offer some form of computer-science class or after-school program, such offerings are still far more common in well-resourced districts than those that primarily serve underprivileged students, and more boys take them than girls. A culture shift?

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What One Startup Founder Learned in Her Quest to Change How Profs Communicate With Students

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Sankar understood the shy student experience because she had been one herself, having gone to college in India where she was one of only three female students majoring in computer science. The most grounding thing was hearing from founders that it wasn't rocket science,” she said.