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Empowering Educators: Online Workshops for Aspiring STEM Teachers – Comprehensive Guide

STEM Education Shopping

They should also explore various branches of science such as biology, chemistry, physics, and earth sciences. Open Educational Resources (OER): OER are freely accessible educational materials that can be used, shared, and modified by educators to meet their specific needs.

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New Turnkey Project-Based Learning Resources for High School STEM Teachers

The Tech Savvy Science Teacher

All content from BLOSSOMS is OER, Open Education Resources, freely available to all. Financial support was generously provided to MIT BLOSSOMS by the US OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC of Ruckersville VA, Lincoln H. Miller, Jr., founder and president. This post originally appeared on The Tech Savvy Science Teacher [link].

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What it Means to Be Teaching Out of Field (OOF) and What to Do About It

Mrs. Harris Teaches

Although my undergraduate degree is in Biology, I have mainly taught Earth Science, Physical Science, and Physics. In fact, I only taught in my subject area (AP Biology) once! The push was to use free open source digital textbooks like CK-12, WikiBooks, and OER Commons. As a science teacher, I can relate.