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Sustainability
Celebrating Earth Day
The recognition on Earth Day can inspire everyone to take action throughout the year and find ways to promote sustainability.
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Difference Making
Dive Into a Virtual Ocean and Three Other Ways Young People Can Experience the Wonder of the World This Earth Day
Chief Education Officer of National Geographic, Vicki Phillips, explores the ways to engage with the planet from wherever you are this Earth Day.
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Difference Making
Children’s Books That Focus on Climate Activists Help Us Appreciate Our Planet on Earth Day and Beyond
For Earth Day, the Getting Smart team's families reviewed a few Earth and climate-themed kids books.
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Difference Making
We Can Never Repay The Earth, But We Can Try
This Earth Day, we're reflecting on our duty to the planet: to experience it to its fullest and to face the largest issue of our time head-on.
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Learner-Centered
What Could You Do with 5 Additional Hours of Time with Students Each Day?
[…] at scientific findings/opinions with a critical eye rather than preparing them to be biology majors? For those non-science majors, that might be understanding how and why the earth is warming, how herbicides and insecticides work and their positive and negative consequences, and how knowing some science can make food taste amazing, etc. Rather than […]
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EdTech
How Hands-On Robotics Brings Science Lessons to Life
By: Katie Blagden and Barb Tennyson. Incorporating coding and engineering into earth and life science lessons engage students and inspires them to show their learning.
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New Pathways
Deeper Learning Requires Deeper Relationships?
[…] interdependence, just like the small, additive conversations that we may have with our neighbors over the back fence. Morning time looks a little different at Down to Earth Forest School in West Linn, Oregon. The nature-immersed independent school doesn’t have a building. Instead, students and educators meet each day at the city park and […]
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20 Invention Opportunities in Learning & Development
[…] learning opportunities. It’s time to invent for equity. The nation has a new, compelling opportunity to o ffer to every person in America—in fact, every person on earth: access to high-quality learning throughout their lifetime. With new tools and new agreements, public-private partnerships and those who e ffectively lead them can empower all learners […]
Learning Design
How To Bring a Cross-Curricular Approach to Your Instruction
[…] a conclusion. Lesson: Magnetic Migration This lesson that incorporates English Language Arts, Life Science and STEM, guides students to work together to investigate the claim that animals use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. How does this connect to… Students? No matter our age, we have a responsibility to take care of our planet. Climate change […]
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Learner-Centered
A New Spin on Education: Cognitive Capacity for an Uncertain Future
[…] science may have been a bit weird. But in today’s world, there is nothing weird about neuroscience. We used to think the world was flat. And the earth was the center of the universe. And IQ was fixed. But when the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria sailed across the world, no one […]
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