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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 17/08/2026
What is a Weed Walk? 🌱 NYC science teacher Selim Tlili will show you! It’ll get your students outdoors, give them a chance to practice close observation, and ignite their curiosity! To learn more, read Selim's article on Edutopia: edut.to/4zdMeP4
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I've received several requests for my recent keynote to the 2026 Society for Text and Discourse conference. I decided to record an abbreviated version, with some updates to my thinking as a result of great conversations at the conference. I welcome your thoughts!
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Irreplaceable: The Essentiality of People, Agency, and Literacy in the GenAI Era
YouTube video by Jeff Greene
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 18/08/2026
These 7 study strategies—from rooting out distractions to practicing active retrieval—can help your students succeed this school year. 🏅
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7 Study Habits to Teach Kids This School Year
Studying is critical to academic success--but many students have never been shown how to do it effectively.
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 05/05/2026
Listening to understand is more than *just* listening. 👂✨ Discover tactics you can use to help students better grasp directions and new material! #MiddleSchool #HighSchoolTeacher #EduSky
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5 Strategies to Improve Students’ Listening Skills
Middle and high school students not listening is a common complaint, but listening is a skill like any other—it can be improved with practice.
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Oregon Science Teachers Association @orscitchr.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
See you in Anaheim!
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NSTA @nstaofficial.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🧪 It’s Daily Dos-day! Every Tuesday, we’re sharing a Daily Do—a standalone lesson you can use in your classroom right away. Follow along each week 👇 bit.ly/4s0bm7N #NSTA #DailyDos #ScienceEducation
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NSTA @nstaofficial.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
👋 Welcome to the official National Science Teaching Association on Bluesky! Connect with us and discover new classroom resources, professional learning opportunities, conference updates, advocacy news, and science community highlights. Follow along and join the conversation. www.nsta.org #NSTA
Learn more about NSTA at www.nsta.org
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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
As we count down to #DarwinDay, we're re-visiting some great pieces on why we teach evolution! "Let us also ask the question from a student’s point of view: Why learn evolution?" ncse.ngo/why-teach-and-learn-about-…
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Why teach (and learn) about evolution? | National Center for Science Education
Why teach evolution? A school administrator might answer simply that the district teaches evolution because it a required part of the science curriculum. Evolution is in the standards and a school would be derelict in its educational duty if its textbooks and curriculum failed to include it.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 10/02/2026
🐙 Talk about a hands-off romance! Male octopuses have a specialized arm called a hectocotylus, which they use for reproduction. Some species even detach the arm entirely and leave it with the female until she’s ready to fertilize her eggs. 💌Find more ocean love: go.whoi.edu/ocean-lovers
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/02/2026
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Intercalated bacterial biofilms are intrinsic internal components of calcium-based kidney stones.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/4PV050YcoVJ For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/eBr450YcoVG.
CAPTION: Scanning electron microscopy of kidney stone fragments
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Oregon Science Teachers Association @orscitchr.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Save the date for our 64th annual conference on science education! Interested in presenting? Submit a proposal this spring!
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Oregon Science Teachers Association @orscitchr.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
OSTA CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE EDUCATION Tides of Discovery, Bridges to the Future Learn, reconnect, & recharge at #OSTA25 Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025 Newport Middle School, Newport, OR Register by Oct 10, 2025 Register early & Save! Early Reg ends Sep 12 oregonscience.org/event-5944108
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🎒 Educators, are you getting ready for back to school? Find out about activities, lessons, and events every month in our K-12 Educate newsletter. Sign up here ⬇️ buff.ly/VbzTsSo
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Oregon Science Teachers Association @orscitchr.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
OSTA CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE EDUCATION Tides of Discovery, Bridges to the Future Learn, reconnect, & recharge at #OSTA25 Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025 Newport Middle School, Newport, OR Register by Oct 10, 2025 Register early & Save! Early Reg ends Sep 12 oregonscience.org/event-5944108
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OPB @opb.org · 10/08/2025
The University of Washington has developed the Thermal History of Regulated Rivers, or THORR, a website that uses artificial intelligence to interpret all that temperature data from NASA’s Landsat satellites, dating back decades.
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How NASA satellites help researchers better understand Northwest river temperatures
Using satellite remote sensing to measure water temperature has been heavily underutilized, said a professor at the University of Washington.
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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We just published a NEW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social on how to PROMOTE EQUITY in #STEMed — based on the powerful @nasem-education.bsky.social EQUITY IN K-12 STEM ED report. Be sure to explore the detailed equity assessment tool included! ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/101 PLS RESKEET #SciEd #NGSS
Screenshot of the title card for the linked resource. Text reads: STEM Teaching Tool #101: How can we better understand and work
toward equity in STEM education?

The background image is a swirling set of multi-colored stripes in the shape of a human head with colorful "air stripes" blowing over it.
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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
For the new followers interested in #ClimateChange Ed, here's our collection of open ed resources on how to #TeachClimate… 🌿 stemteachingtools.org/sp/climate-l... These professional learning resources have been co-designed by researchers & practitioners over the past decade. See what you think!
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The body of the slide includes a pic of the STEM Teaching Tools web page on Climate Learning Resources and the link: 

https://stemteachingtools.org/sp/climate-learning

On the side there is a bulleted list of the kind of content included on that linked page: 
Portal Includes:
Teaching Tools for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education
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PD MODULES
CLIMATE LEARNING
NEWS
NEWSLETTER
ABOUT
Climate Learning Resources
Practice Briefs
3D Climate Assessments
Webinar Recordings
OR Teacher Ed Lesson Plans
Practitioner Articles
Research Summaries
Climate Justice Grad Seminar

In the corner is the logo for the Climate Teacher Ed Collaborative and ClimeTime projects: In a circle of two arrows is iconography of clouds, the sun, mountains, trees, plants, a body of water, and buildings.
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Oregon Science Teachers Association @orscitchr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Event Announcement: Using Dairy and Agriculture as Contexts for Incorporating NGSS, January 09, 2025 During this one-hour webinar, we’ll explore dynamic and relevant ways to engage students with STEM through agriculture, food systems and dairy nutrition. Join us! oregonscience.org/event-5967131
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Oregon Science Teachers Association - Using Dairy and Agriculture as Contexts for Incorporating NGSS
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"In sum, the study provides further evidence that considering learning style in teaching methods such as presentation mode is not beneficial. Importantly, the present study used ecologically valid learning materials and a sufficiently powered sample." #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Testing the meshing hypothesis in prospective teachers: Are there effects of matching learning style and presentation mode on learning performance and on metacognitive aspects of learning? - Instructional Science
Learning styles are a popular concept in the educational field, although there is no empirical evidence that matching learning materials to an individual’s learning style actually enhances learning…
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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 11/12/2024
📚 EDUCATOR RESOURCE | Modeling Factors that Influence Tsunami Inundation Learners investigate how tsunami waves interact with topographic features and design an investigation to test tsunami inundation of different landform features using a model. Activity: loom.ly/8-k7sw8
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Led by @cw3escripps.bsky.social and NOAA, the #AtmosphericRiver Reconnaissance program is sending aircraft into the heart of brewing storms to gather data that sharpens forecasts, helping communities prepare for what’s ahead. 💧
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Taking Flight: UC San Diego Shaping Future of Atmospheric River Forecasting
This year’s rainy season is underway, which means atmospheric rivers are set to dump rain and snow across California and the Pacific Northwest.
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 11/12/2024
Please help us to spread the news about this episode of the @ipbes.bsky.social podcast - it is a great resource to help explain and understand the new #NexusAssessment - with some very concrete, remarkable examples and featuring @pammcelwee.bsky.social and Paula Harrison
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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 09/12/2024
Recent Earthquake Teachable Moment for the M7.0 earthquake offshore Northern California Teachable Moments presentations capture the opportunity to bring knowledge, insight, and critical thinking to the classroom following a newsworthy earthquake. ➡️ loom.ly/4pyrYfQ
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
You're making your list, you're checking it twice, it's books all around for kids, naughty and nice. In today's episode, two bookworm experts join us to share science book recommendations for the kids in your life. Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/3Mut28J
Quote says: “At the end of the day, the best book for a kid is the book that they're going to read and enjoy.” —Carrie Wolfson
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Heather Perkinson @hkperkinson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
If you click on nothing else today, click on this & read the comprehensive summary of 2024's 10 most impactful research studies. Thanks, @edutopia.org! #EduSky #TLSky
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The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2024
It’s that time again—our yearly review of the research you should read, from the sneaky ways that inattention can spread in your classroom to the promises and perils of AI.
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Johanna Br ⌬wn @johannabrown.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Just added some new folks! So many of your old faves from the bird place. Keeping it to folks who work in/on PK-12 #SciEd in formal, informal, research, and non-profit spaces. #EduSky go.bsky.app/FdpEmsi
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Philip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
PLS RP #SciEd #NGSS #TeachClimate Do you teach MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS who have experienced #ClimateChange? We just published a new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social on how to leverage student & community expertise in #ClimateJustice instruction with a focus on language! ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/99
STEM Teaching Tool #99

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine @nationalacademies.org · 05/12/2024
There's a Starter Pack! All of the accounts of the National Academies, plus feeds for report and event mentions. Get started: buff.ly/3BgqSYj
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The National Academies on Bluesky
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