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NEW LESSON PLAN: Science in Action
Posted on January 8th, 2020
Explore Scientists' Connection to the Three Dimensions of NGSS with our new lesson plan.
Students will get the 'real scoop' on what it's like to think like a scientist. Our new Science in Action lesson plan features NGSS aligned concepts in Three Dimensional Learning through Science and Engineering Practices (SEP's), Crosscutting Concepts (CC's) and Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI's).
Three Dimensions helps students see the interconnections between disciplines including science, critical thinking, math and English Language Arts (ELA) skills.
Featured Teacher
Nicole L. Crane Faculty, Cabrillo College Natural and Applied Sciences
Posted on December 4th, 2019
Telling the Story of Us in Our Planet
If you step outside Nicole Crane’s office at Cabrillo College, you see the Monterey Bay. When Nicole isn’t teaching about ocean science, she wears her marine scientist hat and leads a project in a faraway part of the same ocean — in Micronesia.
Featured Scientist
George Matsumoto
Posted on January 27th, 2020
Senior Education and Research Specialist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
How does a guy, wanting little more than to scuba dive in the ocean as a college student, discover a new species of comb jellies (ctenophores)!?
Discover how George’s expertise (and mad diving skills) continue to enrich our understanding of the world of ctenophores.
Featured Creature
Chrysaora - The Pacific sea nettle
Posted on January 24th, 2020One of the most popular and most photographed exhibits at the Monterey Bay Aquarium is the beautiful mesmerizing ballet of sea nettles. The Pacific sea nettle, Chrysaora fuscescens, lives in coastal waters from Alaska to California, to Japan, Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Bering Sea. With their long, trailing tentacles these jellies are large: their bells are about 17.7 inches (45 cm) in diameter, mouth-arms from 12 to 15 feet (3.6 to 4.6 m) long. The frilly mouth-arms and tentacles are covered with stinging cells, called nematocysts.
News
Electric Cars
Posted on January 24th, 2020
A single electric vehicles battery contains 187 lbs copper, 123 lbs, nickel, 15 lbs
manganese and 15 lbs colbalt.
As demand for electric cars grows, so will these important minerals.
Where will we get them? Corporations are now vying for rights to mine in international waters.
How about we try algae as a source?
GET WICKED SMAAHT with us in BOSTON!
Posted on January 24th, 2020
Visit us at booth #2841
The first 20 middle school science teachers who visit our booth will WIN a Tree of Life Poster!
(Contest runs every morning of the conference)