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11 Great Minds in STEAM to Get Students Excited About Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math
Adapted from STEAM In a Jar® Experiments, Activities, and Trivia for Your Classroom Your students are probably already familiar with some famous names in STEAM, like Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, and John Coltrane. But … Continue reading
Supporting Girls in STEM
By Richard M. Cash, Ed.D., author of Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn Part of our Cash in on Learning series by Richard M. Cash, Ed.D. Click to read other Cash in on Learning posts. On … Continue reading
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The Changing Face of Space: New Horizons for NASA, and Women
This month, the New Horizons Probe made a close flyby of Pluto, giving scientists the first-ever photos of the surface of the former planet. From there, the tiny probe headed deep into the Kuiper Belt to examine some of the ice-balls … Continue reading