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12 STEM Experiments for Lunar New Year

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STEM 124

Smore Science

JANUARY 7, 2023

Table of Contents. An *Hic!* Introduction to hiccups. What are hiccups? Credit: Wikimedia/117Avenue. Do you remember what you did the last time you got hiccups? Did you hold your breath for a whole minute? Or, maybe, someone tried to scare the hiccups away? No? What about trying to drink from the wrong side of the glass? Perhaps you simply waited it out.

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Science Buddies

JANUARY 7, 2023

STEM Calendar for Educators: Month by Month STEM

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Table of Contents. Meet the Sharks. Meet the sharks, Credit: Wikimedia/Kschotanus. It’s quite hard to imagine a shark without conjuring up images of a scary predator swimming through the murky ocean hunting for its next prey. While some of these awe-inspiring creatures, like the great white, are known to be at the top of the food chain, most sharks take up space at different levels of the food chain.

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Flexibility Science Sciences 52

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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