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06/28/2019
Workshop Introduces Science Teachers to NGSS-Based Curriculum Materials 28 June 2019 Mary Koppal Project 2061 Middle school science and high school life science teachers are invited to submit an application to attend a free one-day workshop presented by Project 2061, the science education initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The....
11/27/2018
Workshop for Teachers Supports Science Standards 8 November 2018 Mary Koppal Project 2061 When school started this fall, thousands of teachers in states that have adopted Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) still lacked curriculum materials that are aligned to the new guidelines. Five years after the release of NGSS, this situation leaves “...
11/27/2018
High School Curriculum Unit Slated for Publication 14 November 2018 Mary Koppal Project 2061 Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity (MEGA), a new high school curriculum unit developed by Project 2061, AAAS’s science literacy initiative, will be published by NSTA Press next year. The MEGA unit builds on ideas about atom rearrangement and conserv...
10/17/2018
Project 2061 Team Shares Science Education Research Results 12 October 2018 Mary Koppal Project 2061 Thousands of experts in science education and education research gathered this spring in Atlanta and New York City for the annual conferences of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching and the American Educational Research Association. Among...
05/01/2018
Join Project 2061 at Free Science Curriculum Workshop Middle school science and high school biology teachers are invited to submit an application to attend a free one-day workshop hosted by Project 2061,
03/05/2018
Project 2061 Events at NSTA National Conference in Atlanta Join Project 2061 at the NSTA 2018 National Conference on Science Education in Atlanta, March 15-18, and take advantage of the following opportunities
01/29/2018
Project 2061 Workshops and More at NSTA National Conference Join Project 2061 at the NSTA 2018 National Conference on Science Education in Atlanta, March 15-18, and take advantage of the following opportunities
12/07/2017
Science Curriculum Workshop at 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting If you currently teach middle school science or high school biology or serve as a science specialist or an administrator with science curriculum respo
12/07/2017
2018 AAAS Annual Meeting: Family Science Days Family Science Days is free and features interactive booths in the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting Exhibit Hall appropriate for K-12 children and their famil
11/02/2017
Teachers Try Out New Curriculum Unit Project 2061’s new Toward High School Biology curriculum unit asks students to consider two central questions: How do living things grow bigger? Wher
08/31/2017
Project 2061 Curriculum Takes Holistic Approach to Middle School Science Students will engage with scientific ideas through hands-on activities and learn to write clear and concise explanations of real-world phenomena.
08/31/2017
Helping Teachers Understand and Use New Science Standards With the adoption of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by nearly 20 states, teachers are being asked to rethink the science content they teach