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What Image Comes to Your Mind When You Think of a “Doctor”?

National Science Foundation

Using the sample classroom diagram shown above, discussion would focus on how some students (e.g., This teaching pattern resulted in a small target group of students engaged in learning activities and questioning during class, most likely the quickest, loudest students who were sitting closest to the teacher’s position.

Biology 52
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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

STEM 52
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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

The outdoor learning results in greater student engagement and impacts human and environmental wellness. For example, one activity asks students to look at an old tree and imagine its history. Students consider questions such as ‘how was it born?’ It is very satisfying. • Urban farms exist in cities all over the world.