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7 Good Academic Search Engines for Science Teachers

Educators Technology

After covering Google Scholar alternatives , I got an email from a science teacher asking for recommendations for science-focused academic search engines so I created the list below. I am using the word science in its broad denomination incorporating a wide variety of disciplines. billion of cited references."

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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educators Technology

Unfortunately, a sizeable portion of this academic scholarship is locked behind paywalls thus restricting its access to those who can afford to pay. Several researchers and students are unable to afford the high costs required for access thus crippling their efforts to participate in the generation of quality knowledge.

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Best Academic Research Tools for Researchers and Educators

Educators Technology

While my academic background is in the social sciences and more specifically educational studies, I believe that regardless of your discipline, social sciences or natural sciences, the research process, structurally speaking, is more or less the same. What you need is access to academic search engines.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Thousands of students go through the university’s life sciences department, he adds, but a lot of them don’t graduate with degrees in those fields. This story also appeared in USA Today Falling off that path can lock students out of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. But it’s hardly a foregone conclusion.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

How can engineering address human rights issues? Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. Dr Davis Chacon-Hurtado , a Peruvian engineer at the University of Connecticut in the US, is using a human rights-based approach to engineering to solve these problems.

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SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts

Futurum

SHAPE in Schools: Changing mindsets in support of social sciences, humanities and the arts Published: Social sciences, humanities and the arts are vital for addressing complex challenges, but do young people truly understand their value? What is SHAPE? What might be the environmental impacts of shoes?

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10 Ways to Use Defined Learning for Project-Based Learning Excellence

Cool Cat Teacher

Go to [link] to receive free 60-day access to all of Defined Learning’s PBL resources. Say “you are an engineer designing and testing model airplanes that you will present to a company interested in buying them” instead of “this project has you creating model airplanes to write a report.” Defined Learning sponsored this blog post.

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