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Hey everyone! A few weeks back I shared this wonderful resource with you. It was, however, a little buried within a post, so I figured I’d go ahead and let it be my inspiration for a full post. For this week’s blog, I want to give a bit more of an in-depth look at how a classroom unit for a phenomenon-based learning lesson would look like. My examples are going to be based on those found on The Wonder of Science website and the website for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Before I begin, let me describe these sites a little...

The Aedes aegypti is back in the news! For those who don’t know, Aedes aegypti and their close relative, the Aedes albopictus, are species of mosquito that are notorious for transmitting diseases to people living in the warmer and wetter regions of the world. In fact, mosquitoes are the deadliest animal to humans on the planet. Don’t trust me on that fact? Check out this post on Bill Gate’s blog or this post from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). This week, exciting results from a trial in Townsville, Australia were released, and it made me want to look into...

Though I don’t always cover science news on this blog, it is something I love to do because it keeps my imagination for the future of science alive. Some weeks when I’m hoping to cover recent science news, I struggle to find anything I want to write about. Then, other weeks I find so much that I want to write about that I can’t settle on one news story. This week, I ran into the latter situation. Two stories in the news this week made me giddy with excitement, and I couldn’t just decide to talk about only one of...

This week, I read a fascinating article on the NSTA Blog about how some schools are shaking up their science fair programs. Many schools are aiming to incorporate interdisciplinary approaches to learning in order to improve creativity and involvement with both the community and their own projects (parents, it’s your kid’s time to learn!). The ideas I read about in the article (which I will discuss later, don’t worry) led to me learning about a newer movement in education that I had never heard about: STEM to STEAM. Behind this movement is the argument that the addition of an “A”...

I was walking in a park this last weekend, and I saw somebody flying their drone around. This isn’t exactly an uncommon sight these days, but it struck me as something totally unfamiliar on a personal level. Though they have their roots reaching back to the US military’s Kettering Bug in 1918 or Nikola Tesla’s radio-controlled boat in 1898, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, as the cool-kids call them) are still relatively novel to the general public. This, however, doesn’t seem like it will be the case going forward as the commercial drone market in the US is anticipated to...