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Winds of change: using dust in Antarctic ice to understand past climates

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ICE CORE – a long cylinder of ice, extracted from ice sheets or glaciers, which helps scientists learn about past climatic and environmental conditions. By studying past changes using natural archives like ice cores, scientists like myself can learn what causes the Earth’s winds to shift. FROM DUST TO DUST.

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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

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This is why, at Louisiana State University in the US, Professor Jong Hyun Ham is studying the impacts of bacteria on rice and soybean. Over 50% of the world’s population depends on rice as a staple food,” says Professor Jong Hyun Ham, a plant pathologist at Louisiana State University. “It glumae and its interactions with rice.

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Ward’s Science–So Many STEM Resources

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Even after 144 years, Ward’s Science continues to be a leading provider of a full range of science products, kits, and resources for AP Science, Biology, Chemistry, Digital Science, Earth Science, Physics, and more for elementary-age students through High School (and beyond)–including Makerspace environments.

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Farming on permafrost

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By understanding how landforms form on Earth, we can learn how they form on Mars, and this is a sub-field of permafrost geomorphology.” Pathway from school to northern high latitude research • Permafrost science is a branch of Earth science that requires knowledge of geology, glaciology, geomorphology and climatology. •

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Published: At Furman University in the US, Dr Ben Haywood and Professor Julia Parrish from the University of Washington are studying how citizen science programmes impact the relationships participants have with the places and ecology they study which might, in turn, increase scientific literacy. Why is citizen science important?

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Science Teacher Guide to Twitter (aka Free Online Professional Development for Teachers)

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Twitter can help you build true professional learning communities and answers to your science teaching questions. Twitter chats are a great way to meet fellow teachers and learn new teaching strategies.They are practically impossible to follow without a social media manager like TweetDeck or Hootsuite. So that’s my guide.

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What did human communities look like 20,000 years ago?

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There are national organisations, with information and resources for students who are interested in learning more about the past. Lisa highlights geology as a good foundation. As an undergraduate student, I was often the only woman in my geology classes, and the only one combining archaeology and Earth sciences.