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SEPTEMBER 2023
STEM education insights and resources for educators
A Newsletter for Educators
Dear Friend,
We hope you enjoyed the first TERC Talks newsletter last month! TERC Talks is designed especially for educators like yourself, with special insights, valuable resources, and exciting professional development opportunities.
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Programs & Materials Highlights
Our forward-thinking and groundbreaking research projects often result in insightful and inspiring learning materials, many for free.
Innovate to Mitigate
What it is: Innovate to Mitigate challenges 8-12th grade students to submit ideas that will mitigate climate change by protecting biodiversity. The competition engages students in problem-based learning that has meaningful real-world impact. Students have a chance to earn public recognition and prizes!
How does the challenge work? Student teams submit a brief abstract describing their idea(s) for an innovation. After a crowdsourced discussion, they use feedback from peers to revise their idea, then develop and test a mitigation prototype. Finally, they submit a video and paper that make the case for how and why their innovation will reduce greenhouse gases. Winners are selected by a team of judges.
Takeaway: Teachers can help students develop skills that are crucialin scientific investigations and in life.
How TERC can help: The Inquiry Project provides sustained inquiry about the nature of matter for grades 3-5 to help students build scientific explanations about the world around them.
Fun STEM Fact!
The material with the highest melting point is tungsten. You would have to heat it to 3422°C before it began to melt.
PD Opportunities
Upcoming workshops, webinars, and research study opportunities for continuous growth.
October 17, 2023 Family-Focused Engineering: Harnessing Early Childhood Potential
Sign up nowfor this free interactive workshop where you will explore over a decade of NSF-funded research findings, discover ways to support early childhood engineering engagement, and access ready-to-use activities and resources in multiple languages, all while connecting engineering with families' everyday problem solving!
Launching September 27, 2023 A new web-based resource to support equitable mathematics teaching and learning in the elementary grades. The Forum will be a place for educators to reflect on and discuss equity, access, identity, and agency in the elementary mathematics classroom. View a preview conversation and join the mailing list to be notified when resources become available, events are announced, or blogs are published.
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