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Utilize ESSER funds to support students in STEM
Districts all over the country have been given funds from the federal government including ESSER.
Jul 28, 20211 min read


Supporting Students’ Science Inquiry Competencies
The pandemic interrupted in-person learning and forced schools to find alternative ways to strengthen students’ science inquiry...
Jul 22, 20211 min read


Making The Case for Inquiry
I began my teaching career shortly after the release of Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 2000). It was an...
Jul 14, 20212 min read


How can you utilize Baseline Inq-ITS data?
When starting Inq-ITS with a class, we highly recommend beginning with one of our tutorial labs!
Jun 24, 20212 min read


Bring STEM to the classroom via Inq-ITS Digital Labs
When academics started using the term STEM I hopped on the bandwagon so fast I could have left my shoes behind in the process. My own...
Jun 17, 20212 min read


Constructing Explanations
Living in the Pacific Northwest means that every few years the local media will focus on the possibility of “The Big One”. Oregon and...
Jun 11, 20212 min read


Ask Questions & Form Hypotheses
For years science textbooks listed the definition of a Hypothesis as an ‘educated guess’. We know that while an ‘educated guess’ is not...
Jun 3, 20213 min read


Inq-ITS at the 8th Annual ED Games Expo!
We will be joining the 8th Annual ED Games Expo! Hosted June 1st to the 5th, 2021: the expo is both virtual AND free! Inq-ITS is...
May 24, 20211 min read


Developing and Using Models
When I first read the term ‘developing and using models’ I was incredibly excited, finally, the standards are being changed to more...
May 20, 20212 min read
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