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Empowering Educators: Online Workshops for Aspiring STEM Teachers – Comprehensive Guide

STEM Education Shopping

They should also explore various branches of science such as biology, chemistry, physics, and earth sciences. Open Educational Resources (OER): OER are freely accessible educational materials that can be used, shared, and modified by educators to meet their specific needs.

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What it Means to Be Teaching Out of Field (OOF) and What to Do About It

Mrs. Harris Teaches

Although my undergraduate degree is in Biology, I have mainly taught Earth Science, Physical Science, and Physics. The push was to use free open source digital textbooks like CK-12, WikiBooks, and OER Commons. As a science teacher, I can relate. In fact, I only taught in my subject area (AP Biology) once!

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This Student Saw Teachers Lacked a Place to Share Digital Resources. So He Created One.

ED Surge

They are organized into five categories — science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics — and further indexed by relevant courses, like AP Physics, or topics, like digital photography. Currently, there are more than 20 contributors who have collected more than 600 resources, according to information on the site.