2020 Annual Report

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2020–2021 SCHOOL YEAR SCIENCE NEWS IN HIGH SCHOOLS

The access to these magazines is essential to keeping my biology classroom updated with timely and relevant research and news stories.”

domestic schools enrolled 5,068

LINDA ALBRIGHT Newmarket High School Newmarket, New Hampshire

teachers enrolled digitally ~17,000 ~5,400,000

Helping Teachers Navigate Virtual Classrooms

domestic students with access to SN HS resources

TEACHING VIRTUALLY Educator Kehkashan Khan teaches a virtual lesson using Science News in High Schools resources.

Science News in High Schools

districts or other geographic cohorts 56 62%

Keeping students engaged while they cannot be in physical class- rooms is no easy task, but teachers like Kehkashan Khan have found Sci- ence News in High Schools ( SN HS) resources to be particularly helpful and have even shared them with colleagues. Kehkashan has taught in Chicago for 12 years, and prior to moving to Chicago, she taught internationally for over a decade. During the public health crisis, she adapted her in-class lessons for the virtual classroom by posting Science News articles and corre- sponding Educator Guide lesson plans online.

“The pandemic made me a more efficient remote teacher, as I have had the opportunity to find innovative ways to engage my students. One of the resources I find extremely engag- ing and informative is Science News ; the articles are not just well written but also student and teacher friendly. I pride myself on being a teacher who is always on the lookout for mate- rial that supplements my learning objectives. Science News print as well as digital versions have been a great teaching and assessing tool.

important for schools and educators to provide them sustenance in the form of stimulating and engaging learning situations.” The SN HS program brings Science News journalism and Educator Guides—paired lesson plans aligned with Next Generation Science Stan- dards—to high schools across the United States. With an online library of over 200 lesson plans, SN HS provides educators with access to a plethora of STEM reading, writing and at-home activities that apply core curricular high school standards by highlighting current news in science.

GROWING AND LEARNING Kehkashan Khan’s student Dantre Walton works on her research project.