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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? What is SHAPE?

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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Think Like a Scientist The lessons focus on chemistry and physics, two “gatekeeper” subjects that are typically seen as more difficult, Schneider says. Chemistry and physics teachers within these schools will deliver the curriculum. Students will learn to think like scientists.

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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SpringerOpen SpringerOpen features research a wide variety of peer-reviewed research articles spanning different disciplines including social sciences, humanities, science, technology, medicine, economics, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, psychology, and many more.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Sessions were prone to explanations such as how “physics-based simulations” became the buzzword in Hollywood, leading animation teams to use modeling techniques for hits like “Frozen,” “Brave” and “Toy Story,” which include life-like representations of walking through snow and bouncing curly hair. But it’s hardly a foregone conclusion.

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Harnessing the power of music to improve mental health

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Interacting with music can have significant benefits for both your physical and mental health, meaning music can play an important role in your well-being. The benefits of music are spread across the spectrum of physical and mental health. Music is complex because it involves multiple senses.

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

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And finally, sometimes it makes sense to set our local contexts aside and explore the universality of a particular content area such as math, or physics, or social science. In a world driven by race, class, caste and difference, we don’t do enough in schools to candidly confront those realities with an attentive awareness.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

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However, the skills learnt from subjects such as mathematics and physics are everlasting and applicable to many different fields. I was fascinated by the physical processes that underlie information processing, so studied physics and computer science initially. Most researchers love to talk about their work.

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