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Youth Engineering Solutions STEM Leader Institute: July 17-19

Posted by lae232 on April 3, 2025

Youth Engineering Solutions STEM Leader Institute 2.5 day professional learning July 17-19, 2025

This professional learning will introduce the Museum of Science’s Youth Engineering Solutions Curriculum for elementary and middle school. The curriculum promotes students to tackle real-world problems, scaffolded by an age-appropriate engineering design process. Challenges channel students’ creativity and engage them in engineering and science practices.… Read more

Model-Based Inquiry Professional Learning: June 24

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Model Based Inquiry Introduction Workshop: 1-day Professional Learning June 24, 2025

This professional learning is an introduction to a model-based inquiry (MBI) framework for designing NGSS-aligned science units. Practical strategies for and practice in constructing a unit are included. Join us to deepen your understanding of MBI or enhance your knowledge of the MBI curriculum design process!

Registration: tinyurl.com/MBIJune2025 

Participants:… Read more

NAU PLACES: June 17 & 18

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Data Fluency 3-day Professional Learning June 17-18, 2025 + 1 follow-up day in the fall* 

This professional learning introduces place-based, data-rich strategies to support data fluency. Individuals with data fluency are confident and able to use and make sense of data, knowing when, how, and why to use data for a specific purpose such as solving problems and… Read more

ArcGIS Online Student Competetion

Posted by lae232 on February 12, 2025

This competition is a fantastic way for students to:
– Showcase their creativity and problem-solving skills.
– Explore their local environment and community through mapping.
– Gain experience using cutting-edge GIS technology.

Teachers, this is your chance to inspire your students to dive into the world of geographic data analysis and storytelling while engaging in meaningful,… Read more

Event: Lunar Legacy Invitational

Posted by sd2387 on June 19, 2023

Youths are shown close up playing with a lego robot.

May 19 – 21, 2023– The lofty concrete space of the NAU Fieldhouse took on a new dimension by hosting the Lunar Legacy Invitational for youth competing in LEGO Robotics. Only two things are required to get middle school students interested in science: space and robots. That is precisely what the… Read more

CSTL hiring an Assistant Research Professor of STEM Education

Posted by Ron Gray on December 11, 2022

The Center for Science Teaching and Learning (CSTL) and the Department of STEM Education (DSE) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) invite applications for a scholar of higher education at the rank of assistant research professor beginning August 2023.

 

The CSTL is committed to strategically increasing its capacity to provide local and national leadership in STEM education through advanced research and scholarly activities. As a recently designated Hispanic-serving institution (HSI), NAU seeks a scholar with background and scholarly interest… Read more

Project Focus: FEWSION for Community Resilience™

Posted by Author on Source on July 7, 2021

Check out these recent updates from the FEWSION for Community Resilience™ project, on which the CSTL’s Sean Ryan is a project coordinator:

Training Manual Published

The F4R™ team has worked hard to compile a comprehensive training manual for participants who wish to learn how to leverage the F4R™ process to build resilience in their communities. This training manual is a guide for the F4R™ process. It contains suggested activities and content that promote learning, research, and action focused on supply chains.… Read more

CSTL Published in Afterschool Matters: PD for STEM Educators

Posted by Author on Source on June 23, 2021

The CSTL PLANETS team recently published an article in the Afterschool Matters journal on the professional learning support that is needed to meet the varying needs of out-of-school time STEM educators.

Check out the abstract:

Flexibility, opportunities for exploration, and a focus on 21st century skills make out-of-school time (OST) programs an ideal environment for authentic learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM; Committee on STEM Education, 2013; Noam & Shah, 2014). In addition, because OST programs serve significant populations… Read more

Citizen-Led Community Innovation for Food Energy Water Nexus Resilience

Posted by Author on Source on June 2, 2021

Check out this publication from the team working on the FEWSION for Community Resilience initiative, including CSTL’s Sean Ryan and Nena Bloom

Frontiers in Environmental Science, posted September 23, 2020

Release of the article by Emma Hibbett, Richard Rushforth, Elisabeth Roberts, Sean Ryan, Kyle Pfeiffer, Nena Bloom, Benjamin L Ruddell, published in Frontiers in Environmental Science, section Science and Environmental Communication. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.571614

“Food-energy-water (FEW) resources are necessary for the function of… Read more

Getting to Know CSTL: Meet Lori Rubino-Hare

Posted by Author on Source on May 14, 2021

Lori flexes with a shirt that says, "GIS is my super power"Lori is a Professional Development Coordinator at the CSTL. She was a middle-school teacher in Arizona for 13 years before coming to the CSTL. Lori is a proud NAU alumna with a BSEd in Elementary Ed and a MEd with distinction in Gifted Special Education. Lori has worked on a number of grants with the CSTL funded by NSF… Read more

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