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Building Physics Identity 🧬 - How do we inspire more young women to pursue physics? 🤔 Learn more from host @barnettdreyfuss.bsky.social via an intro to the STEP UP program & curriculum. Next Tuesday, April 7th @ 7 PM ET. Register: wkf.ms/418pD6R
#PhysicsTeachers #ScienceEd #STEPUP #AMTATeachers #mod

bscs.org/nsta-2026 BSCS Science Learning with spiral logo Empowering Changemakers: Urban Biodiversity Initiative for Teachers and Youth Enhancing Multilingual Learners' Language Use for Scientific Sensemaking Shared Vision: What does equitable teaching and learning look like in a student-centered classroom? Select and Plan for Use of K-12 HQIM: Equity by Design Use and Scale Up of HQIM across the K-12 System: Ensuring Equity Classroom Discussions: Supporting Students to Share and Discuss Ideas Leadership Matters; Strategic Partnering to Support Implementation of High Quality Instructional Materials Math as a Tool for Science Sensemaking Sustained and Effective Use of HQIM across the K-12 System: Making it Stick NSTA National Conference on Science Education Anaheim26 April 15-18

Friday, April 17 at #NSTA Anaheim: the team from BSCS hosts a full (and very busy) day of sessions on HQIM implementation, equitable sensemaking, and instructional leadership.

🍎 🧪 Plan your schedule: bscs.org/april-17

#EduSky #NSTAspring26 #ScienceEd #STEMEd #TeacherPD #HQIM #OpenSciEd

Encountering Math, Science & Literacy in our Outdoor Classroom | The Robertson Program | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education For six years, the Kindergarten class at Mine Centre Public School has been using to their outdoor “camp” to explore and understand part of the forest just down the road from their school.

This blog explores the power of outdoor classrooms and shares practical ideas for bringing math and science to life in the great outdoors. #TeacherResources #NatureBasedLearning #ScienceEd www.oise.utoronto.ca/robertson/bl...

bscs.org/nsta-2026 BSCS Science Learning logo Thursday, April 16 Using Societal Challenges as Phenomena in 3D Units to Develop Agency Supporting Leaders: Furthering NGSS implementation using High Quality Instructional Materials Across Multiple Contexts Lay the Foundation for K-12 HQIM: Be a Champion for Equity Customization of HQIM: How can we strengthen instructional materials for our local context? OpenSciEd Assessments: Supporting Students, Teachers, and Classroom Community NSTA National Conference for Science Education Anaheim26 April 15-18

🔬 4/16 at #NSTA Anaheim: BSCS hosts powerful sessions on HQIM, OpenSciEd, multilingual learner supports, and leadership for lasting impact.

Strengthen implementation. Deepen sensemaking. Lead boldly.

🍎 🧪 Details: bscs.org/april-16

#EduSky #NSTAspring26 #ScienceEd #STEMEd #TeacherPD #OpenSciEd

The new NSTA Voices Podcast Series has launched! 🎙️

Tune in weekly to get ready for Anaheim + explore the latest in science education.

Episode 1 features Dr. Alicia Conerly on why NSTA Conferences are a “refilling station” for educators.

Listen and subscribe: bit.ly/40H8NMc

#NSTA #ScienceEd

New on #LitLinks
3 easy, kid-friendly experiments to explore #light using everyday objects—perfect for class or home.
Read it here 👉 www.patriciamnewman.com?p=13267

@henryherz.bsky.social #ScienceEd #SciComm #NGSS #TeachersOfBsky #Homeschool #KidsScience #InquiryBasedLearning

This week’s NSTA Web Seminar Roundup 🌕📚

• Unlocking the Moon with Artemis
• Make the Most of NSTA Anaheim 2026
• Best STEM Books for Authentic Learning
• First-Time Attendee Guide

Space science, STEM literacy, & conference tips—all in one week.

Register: bit.ly/4umdU1O

#ScienceEd #NSTAspring26

Bird Gliders Take a peek at what the students learned about flight and how that informed their creative designs!

How do birds fly? This question led Early Years students to build and test their own bird gliders. Read about their hypotheses and creative designs in our latest lesson plan. #ScienceEd #EarlyLearning #TheRobertsonProgram #STEM www.oise.utoronto.ca/robertson/le...

NSTA Kids invites students to step outside, look up, and rediscover the wonder of the night sky ✨

“Next Time You See a Star” blends poetic storytelling with real science for grades K–5. Perfect for read-alouds & NGSS-aligned Earth & Space lessons. 🌌

Learn more: bit.ly/4r8Nduy

#ScienceEd #NGSS

OpenSciEd Elementary Unit 4 instructional materials for grades K–5 are now public on the OpenSciEd website. EQuIP reports are also available on the NSTA website to guide high-quality science teaching. bit.ly/3Mk0fqM
#ScienceEd #STEM

Heads Up: Lunar Eclipse March 3
Total #lunareclipse coming early morning of March 3. Very democratic, everyone in N America can see. My explanatory sheet in everyday language: bit.ly/2026eclipse
#astronomy #astroed #science #scienceed #amateurastronomy #sky #eclipses #space #outerspace

The anchoring phenomenon represented here is Animal Adaptations for Survival. Specifically, the Killdeer demonstrates how physical characteristics and behaviors (like "broken-wing" displays, which this species is famous for) allow an organism to survive in a specific environment. The cryptic coloration of its back helps it blend into the ground to avoid predators while nesting, while the bold chest stripes break up its outline (disruptive coloration), making it harder for predators to track its exact shape when it moves.

🐦 Meet the killdeer — a master of *distraction*!
When predators near its nest, it feigns injury to lead them away.
Perfect for K-2 lessons on animal adaptations & survival.

Explore 150+ visual science lessons:
www.sciencesnapshot.com

#ScienceEd #AnimalAdaptations #K5 #BirdPhotography

Explore 150+ visual science lessons:
www.sciencesnapshot.com

Exploring the natural world through photography and AI.

#ScienceEd #NGSS #STEM #EdTech #Photography #NaturePhotography

How to draw this: Origin poing at bottom center, with horizontal and vertical axes Diagonal "light rays" (dashed, yellow-outlined) going up-left and up-right from the origin to the edge of the page. A whole lot of square hyperbolas filling in the upper quadrant between the light rays, each centered on the origin point, symmetrical around vertical axis, curving upwards to either side, and converging on the light rays as asymptotes. The left half of one hyperbola is emphasized and labeled "goodbye cruel world", emphasis ends at the vertical axis merging into a horizontal line that proceeds rightwards off the page, labeled "omg, aaaaaaaaa....", and then, after crossing through the up-right light-ray, "WTFF??"

Also my favorite diagram so far,,illustrating what happens when you jump out of the John Hancock Tower (i.e., the version that has fake gravity):

Part 6
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/72287.html

in which, having established what (little) math we actually need, we get to the truly fun part:

How constant acceleration works
a.k.a.
What you need to know re
Faking Gravity in Special Relativity.

It is **a** **lot** weirder than you would expect […]

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Part 5:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71989.html
about how to transform between Moving and Stationary People coordinates (Lorentz transformations) and what velocity angles are (they're like rotation angles, but different)

(tring to make this accessible to folks who haven't seen a whole lot of […]

𝗙𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 | 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 | 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵
education-matters.org
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴, 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵.

#wellbeing #leadership #management #EngChat #ELAChat #MathChat #SciChat #ScienceEd #EarlyEd #ElemChat

Image is a Black History Spotlight of Dr. Charles Drew and features a portrait of him circa 1949. He is known as the "Father of he Blood Bank" in medical history. #saturdaysciencestories

Image is a Black History Spotlight of Dr. Charles Drew and features a photo of his graduating class of McGill University Medical School. Image overlayed with highlights of his role as an educator and barrier-breaker.

Photos courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. The Charles R. Drew Papers.

❤️ Feb 7th - #NationalWearRedDay! At AMTA, we thing about "red" through 3 lenses: 🔭 Physics: Long wavelengths (700nm) ⚗️ Chemistry: Iron coordination in heme 🩸 Biology: Hemoglobin’s oxygen bond. Plus, honoring Dr. Charles Drew—the pioneer of blood plasma preservation. #BlackHistoryMonth #ScienceEd

Looking for a new way to spark classroom discussion? 💡

NSTA’s latest case study, Beat a Different Drum, has students analyze a real study on group drumming and depression—evaluating research design, validity, and how findings are presented online.

Explore it ➝ bit.ly/4acoTl4

#NSTA #ScienceEd

Strengthen your science PL 💪

NSTA partners with districts to deliver customized professional learning focused on sensemaking, curriculum implementation, OpenSciEd support, and ongoing coaching—designed to scale across schools.

Learn more ➝ bit.ly/4ar9HSu

#NSTA #ScienceEd #ProfessionalLearning

The NSTA Weekly Web Seminar Roundup is here! Join us for an upcoming professional learning opportunity:

🧩 OpenSciEd | Jan 21
🧭 Support shifts | Jan 21
❄️ Arctic Report | Jan 29
📘 Science Notebooks | Feb 4, 11, 18, 25

Register 👉 bit.ly/49PV22W

#NSTA #ScienceEd #ProfessionalLearning

Why aren't the okapis breeding? 🦒🕵️♀️In this free lesson by Rebecca Brewer, students solve an animal welfare mystery via: 🧪 "Simulated urine" testing 🧠 Modeling hormone pathways 📐 Zoo enclosure redesign

Includes Lizard & Pigeon #APBio extensions!
📥 Download: bit.ly/sclrebecca #EduSky #ScienceEd #STEM

How to draw this: black line, slope 1/2 (rising left to right) Dots (events) on it, equally spaced: 'Sent' near the left edge 'Halfway Tick' in the middle 'Received' near the right edge label "Δt" on either side of 'Halfway Tick' blue line, slope 2, through 'Halfway Tick' to top edge Dot 'Ground Zero' down a bit the top edge label "Δz" for segment above 'Halfway Tick' black line through 'Ground Zero', parallel to first line, label "Ground Zero Moving Person, no no no aaaaaa" two black segments join 'Ground Zero' to 'Sent' and 'Received' label "interval = -y² larger dot 'Overpass' above+a bit left of 'Ground Zero' + dashed yellow segments join 'Overpass' to 'Sent' and 'Received' depicted as if above the page

Part 4:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/71432.html

On the Storrow Drive Theorem

This is on how, having developed how one does spacetime for a 1-dimensional universe, how you put back the 2nd and 3rd spatial dimensions,

and the key question is what […]

[Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

Should we use biotech to save a species? 🌳🧬 In this free lesson by Renee Haines, students dive into real-world #conservation case studies like the American chestnut.

Groups collaborate to review evidence, build Case Study Posters, and lead a Gallery Walk.

📥 Download: bit.ly/sclrenee
#ScienceEd

How do you teach students that science is a process, not facts? 🔬
Check out this #NatureofScience lesson from 2023 NJ TOY Christine Girtain.

🎲 Solve the Hypothesis Cube 🌱 Explore nitrogen cycling & Indigenous STEM in our award-winning film

📥 Download for free: bit.ly/sclchristine

#ScienceEd #STEM

How do you kill a superbug? 🦠

Help students explore phage therapy with this free lesson plan by Dan Vanden Heuvel!

🔬 Model evolution 🎲 Interactive board game 📊 Analyze research data

⏰ FREE WEBINAR TODAY @ 7PM ET: bit.ly/sclambassadorwebinar

#APBio #ScienceEd

Let’s talk about plants, let’s talk about taking social action. Thank you @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social for acknowledging educational and societal contributions! #ScienceEd #PlantBio #Arabidopsis

Gamechanger Digitalität: Der KLP fordert nicht nur "Mediennutzung", sondern "Prompt Engineering" (HK6) und die kritische Bewertung von KI-generierten Inhalten.
Endlich wird Chemieunterricht offiziell 21. Jahrhundert. 💻🔬
Wie findet ihr die Rückkehr der Farbstoffe in den GK?
#EduNRW #ScienceEd

"Size of Life" is lauded for being both educational and highly engaging, making complex biological scales accessible. It's a fantastic tool for both adults & children, reinforcing Agarwal's reputation for compelling interactive projects. #ScienceEd 3/6

We’re a pro-science alliance with strong, unified voices supporting science.

We defend climate science. Advocate for mRNA research. Push back on anti-vax misinformation. We stand up for science!

#holidayseason #holidays #DNA #science #evolution #biology #genes #genomics #ScienceEd #sciart