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Member Web Seminar Book Beat Live! Creating and Using Instructionally Supportive Assessments in NGSS Classrooms, May 21, 2024 Join us on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET and meet Joe Krajcik and Christopher Harris authors of the new NSTA Press Book, Creating ... Web Seminar Web Seminar: SP24: Health DataWell: HS Life Science Instructional Materials, June 4, 2024 Join us on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET, to learn about the free lesson plans and storyline units designed for high school studen... High School Postsecondary Informal Education Biology Environmental Science Life Science Web Seminar Science Update: Wildfires: Science and Technology, June 13, 2024 Join us on Thursday, June 13, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about the science and technology of firefighting. Wildfires have become an e... 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Web Seminar Web Seminar: SP24: Health DataWell: HS Life Science Instructional Materials, June 4, 2024 Join us on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET, to learn about the free lesson plans and storyline units designed for high school studen... High School Postsecondary Informal Education Biology Environmental Science Life Science Web Seminar Science Update: Wildfires: Science and Technology, June 13, 2024 Join us on Thursday, June 13, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about the science and technology of firefighting. Wildfires have become an e... Elementary Middle School High School Postsecondary Informal Education Climate Change Earth & Space Science Engineering Environmental Science Life Science Robotics STEM Web Seminar Science Update: Get Ready for International Observe the Moon Night! July 11, 2024 Join us on Thursday, July 11, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about the Moon and the International Observe the Moon Night.During this... 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