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Chemistry teachers, have you ever tried teaching chemistry with film?

Our free curriculum guide for National Geographic docuseries One Strange Rock, about the history of Earth from a planetary perspective, includes three lessons that are great for chemistry classes:

- Lesson 4: Mighty Microbes (Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry)
- Lesson 5: The History of Life (History, Geology, Biology, Chemistry)
- Lesson 8: The Air We Breathe (Chemistry, Biology, Earth Science, Social Studies)

If you'd like to boost student engagement in STEM classes with film — and/or give yourself an easy teaching day — we warmly recommend this resource to STEM teachers.

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/one-strange-rock/

PS As you can see, the lessons span the STEM curriculum. Share this with your science teacher colleagues!

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In developing AIs (artificial intelligences) there’s no guarantee that they will think like we do. We need to ask, what possible type of minds could AIs have? Students are interested in such questions!

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/possible-minds/

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Science teachers need to take the lead in schools, learning & teaching what AI (artificial intelligence) is & what it isn't, basic ideas behind it; solved problems in AI; etc

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/reading-connections/coding-and-robotics/artificial-intelligence/

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Best Practices For Teachers When Teaching About Native American Peoples

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2021/06/02/best-practices-when-teaching-about-native-american-peoples/

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Women in math and science - some role models for teachers & students to know about

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/about/women-in-science-and-math/

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Diversity & Inclusion resources for STEM teachers. Scientists and engineers are from all ethnic, cultural, and national backgrounds. We can be Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, Polynesian, Native American, from any background

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/about/diversity-inclusion-in-stem/

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What's a #neuron, how do nerves transmit signals? We can teach fully on-level high school science through creating easy-to-make yet anatomically correct models out of candy. This isn't dumbing science down; this is using all of our senses to better connect with the material: The anatomically correct candy neuron

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/build-an-anatomically-correct-candy-neuron/

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Can we do a real high school level #genetics lab using only #LEGOs? Well, yes we can! Here is the info & lab. Honors students loved it, and this was originally designed from the ground up for our #SPED students.

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/modeling-dna-with-legos/

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Can we do a real high school level #genetics lab using only M&Ms candies? Well, yes we can! Here is the info & lab. Honors students loved it, and this was originally designed from the ground up for our #SPED students.

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/genetics/dna-replication/

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I'm a believer in reversing the traditional vector of IEPs, scaffolding & differentiation - by that I mean, once one makes any IEP adaptations, then why not then fold those adaptations back into the general class, whenever possible?
Much of what I originally made for students with IEPs became sought after by all my other students, and then students of other teachers, from the Honors science classes (and now from other schools.)

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/

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About physical changes and chemical changes - these are important ideas for high school science. But consider this - is cutting nylon a physical or a chemical change? That's the kind of question which lets us really understand what this issue is all about! :-)

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/chemistry/matter/physical-and-chemical-changes/

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Synthesizing organic molecules? An easy way to understand and teach this - without dumbing it down!

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/chemistry-of-life/synthesizing-organic-molecules/

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Every type of #symbiosis that one would want to teach about or learn in middle school or high school - examples of #mutualism, #commensalism, #parasitism, #endosymbiosis, #ectosymbiosis

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/ecology/symbiosis/

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What's the difference between chlorine, chlorine, and chlorine? Glad that you asked! This is an example of where colloquial English isn't good enough to distinguish between several very different things. We make it easier to understand here -

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/chlorine-and-bleach-terminology/

#chlorine #ions #atoms #bleach #gas #chemistry
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How does photosynthesis work? Step by step, super easy to follow, animated GIFs. Made for any teachers or students

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/chemistry-of-life/photosynthesis-intro/

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What do teachers and students need to know about fungi? Free resource -
* Classifying fungi on the tree of life
* How fungi are like and unlike animals
* Difference between fungi and plants
* How some fungi cause disease
* molds, fungus, mushrooms,
* fungi in baking, and in making chocolate and coffee?!

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/classification/fungi/

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What do teachers and students need to know about our #immunesystem? I put together this resource to bring kids up to speed with high school level biology & health, even if they don't know much about it to begin with.

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/immune-system/

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Every type of #symbiosis that one would want to teach about or learn in middle school or high school - examples of #mutualism, #commensalism, #parasitism, #endosymbiosis, #ectosymbiosis

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/ecology/symbiosis/

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Resources in #Ecology for #scienceteachers:

* Biomes
* Scales of ecology: From organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, to biomes.
* Population interactions and diversity
* Population limits and species interactions
* Symbiosis: (A) Autotrophs and Heterotrophs, (B) mutualism, commensalism, parasitism
* Ecological succession
* Matter cycles:
-> Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, cycles
-> Water, Hydrogen cycles

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/ecology/

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In developing #AIs (#artificialintelligences) there’s no guarantee that they will think like we do. We need to ask:
What type of minds do we humans have? And what possible type of minds could AIs have? This free resource explains these ideas from the ground up

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/possible-minds/

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How is digital data stored and transmitted? The Next Generation Science Standards ask us to teach about digital transmission and storage of information: A free sequences of resources is offered here

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2021/06/30/how-is-digital-data-stored-and-transmitted/

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Whether teaching math or computer programming, students need to know what algorithms are. Here is an easy way to present it

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/reading-connections/coding-and-robotics/algorithms/

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Should all computers include a BASIC programming language app with instructions? Yes, argues David Brin in "Why Johnny can’t code"

Why Johnny Can’t Code
By David Brin

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/why-learn-computer-programming/

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Adapting high school physics courses for ESL/ELL students. What resources could we add to this? How can we best support all our students?

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/about/esl-resources/

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What do teachers and students need to know about our #immunesystem? I put together this resource to bring kids up to speed with high school level biology & health, even if they don't know much about it to begin with.

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/immune-system/

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What do teachers and students need to know about #viruses ? Free resource -

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/classification/viruses/

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What do teachers and students need to know about #protists? Free resource -

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/classification/protista/

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What do teachers and students need to know about fungi? Free resource -
* Classifying fungi on the tree of life
* How fungi are like and unlike animals
* Difference between fungi and plants
* How some fungi cause disease
* molds, fungus, mushrooms,
* fungi in baking, and in making chocolate and coffee?!

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/classification/fungi/

@edutooters
@science
@scienceteachers
#science #STEM #NGSS #highschoolteachers #scienceteachers #fungi #coffee #biologyteachers #biology

Biology teachers - did you notice that NGSS ignores classification and taxonomy? A serious problem since, as Theodosius Dobzhansky noted, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution." So how do we justify to a parent or administrator us taking the time to teach about this? See the learning standards at the end of this resource -

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/biology-the-living-environment/classification/

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What's the difference between chlorine, chlorine, and chlorine? Glad that you asked! This is an example of where colloquial English isn't good enough to distinguish between several very different things. We make it easier to understand here -

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/chlorine-and-bleach-terminology/

#chlorine #ions #atoms #bleach #gas #chemistry
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