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We’re excited to share these stories, tips and updates from Letters to a Pre-Scientist community members!

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Take two for 6th grade!

This year, my 6th grade students have a unique opportunity. My students participated in the letters to a pre-scientist program while they were in 5th grade and many of them

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Letter Opening Day #1 of 2014!

We opened our first letters from our pen pals yesterday! Letters were sitting in bins on my desk for a few weeks as we waited for them all to trickle

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Changing the STEM Field

This year, our scholars started learning about the STEM field.  We first learned what it stands for: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.  We then learned about several really cool STEM

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Adventures in 5th grade science

One of my big goals going into my 2nd year of teaching was to include more problem based learning, labs, and projects in the classroom. Over the past few months

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Letter Opening Day #2

It just so happened that all the letters came in right before our winter break, so we spend our last few days of school opening and writing back letters! Students

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Meet the scientists

When we first started Letters to a Pre-Scientist during the 2010-2011 school year, we had just over 100 committed scientists volunteering as pen pals. The scientists represented about 10 US