curriculum – Lab Out Loud

Adjusting science language and technology for culturally relevant STEM education

November 4, 2019

As a former science teacher and now professor of education at Stanford, Dr. Bryan A. Brown is keenly interested in improving science teaching and learning in urban communities by investigating how language and culture matter for effective science teaching. Some of this work is shared in his new book Science in the City, where Brown examines the interplay of language […]

Season 13 book, culture, curriculum, feature, inner-city, language, pedagogy, technology, vocabulary

First Crew To Mars Is Likely In Middle School Right Now – Help Prepare Them With Generation Beyond

October 10, 2016

Our guest this week is former astronaut Stephen Frick, Director of Strategic Planning and Operations at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center. Lockheed Martin and Discovery Education have partnered to launch the next phase of Generation Beyond – an initiative to use science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to prepare today’s middle school students for deep space […]

Episodes, Season 10 curriculum, discovery education, mars, Middle School, NASA, online resources, space, STEM