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CREATE for STEM Hosts Professional Development Session for Middle School Educators

The teachers build a model

On March 20-21, 2018, five Flint-based middle school teachers gathered at the Genesee Career Institute in Flint to participate in a professional development session as part of CREATE for STEM’s Building Models project. The first day was focused on CREATE’s water development unit, which was developed by Ann Novak, an experienced teacher from Greenhills School. She provided the teachers with NGSS, PBL, and the modeling practices content, and also had the teachers go over the lessons and experience some of the activities first-hand.

Taking Part in The Conversation: Bias in the Publishing Pipeline

Scientific Journals

“‘Publish or perish’ is tattooed on the mind of every academic,” write Ione Fine, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, and Alicia Shen, a PhD candidate in psychology at the University of Washington, in a recent article published on The Conversation. This piece, titled “Perish not publish? New study quantifies the lack of female authors in scientific journals,” breaks down a recent study that analyzed the percentage of male and female authors published in academic publications, specifically Science and Nature.

Interactions Earns Highest Ranking from Achieve

NGSS Design Badge

Achieve.org has announced that Interactions, the 9th grade physical science curriculum developed through a collaboration between the MSU CREATE for STEM Institute, the Concord Consortium, and the Learning Partnership USA, has been awarded its first NGSS Design Badge. Interactions was recognized for the quality of its Unit 1, the example CREATE submitted for review. Using a special rubric designed to evaluate how well materials meet the Next Generation Science Standards, Achieve gave the Interactions unit its highest rating of "E: Example of high-quality NGSS design."

CREATE for STEM at NSTA 2018

CREATE NSTA Schedule

NSTA is holding its 2018 national conference in Atlanta, Georgia on March 15-18, 2018. The theme is "Science on My Mind," and the event will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center. CREATE for STEM will be giving many presentations throughout the conference; please click the attached file to see the schedule for CREATE at NSTA. 

Call for Books to Donate to Puerto Rico Earth Science Teachers

Pile of books

Julie Libarkin, a professor at Michigan State University, will be traveling to Puerto Rico to give a keynote at a conference for earth science teachers. She has requested that anyone who has spare books donate them to the teachers in Puerto Rico. The recent hurricane wiped out many of the local schools as well as teachers’ personal school supplies. While many items are now once again available in Puerto Rico, access to books is still quite limited.

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