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I teach advanced science courses. Many of my students see school as a competition so they just want the correct answers to study for a good grade. How...
By Sharon Delesbore
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Plan Labs with Assessments, School Calendars in Mind
I have written a lab about quarks. The problem is there are no Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) about quarks. The only standards that refer to...
By Sharon Delesbore
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I’m a first-year high school science teacher seeking desperately the best way to connect with my freshman biology students who are very smart but ar...
By Sharon Delesbore
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100 days of school–weather watching and documenting plant growth
Just as numerals marking the number of in-school days are sometimes posted in one long line stretching across walls of the classroom, weather data ca...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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How PLCs Helped Move Us Toward Equitable High School Assessment Practices
My colleagues and I began using units intentionally designed for the NGSS for biology in early 2017. We started with a high-quality unit evaluated by ...
By Holly Hereau
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PLNs + High-Quality Units = NGSS Success
In June 2013, Kentucky’s Board of Education officially adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which not only set a new course for sci...
By David Grossman
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Improving Elementary Science Programs Through Professional Learning Communities
“I’m not good at science.” It’s a declaration that far too many students have made in classrooms. Their beliefs are often based on lack of exp...
By Edel Maeder
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Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity
The human body is an amazing mechanism. For students, learning how the human body works can prove to be an exciting educational adventure. Matter and...
By Carole Hayward
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Middle and high school science teachers often have or should have the task of retrofitting their chemical storeroom. Critical issues such as what chem...
By Kenneth Roy
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Introducing the STEM Teacher Leadership Network
By Joni Falk, Co-director of the Center for School Reform at TERC @STEMTLnet.org The STEM Teacher Leadership Network (https://STEMTLnet.org), fund...
By Korei Martin
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Intentionally providing materials to sort
In addition to providing materials for children, we can ask ourselves, “What is my role as an educator when I provide materials for sorting?” If ...
By Peggy Ashbrook
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I was planning a lesson for fifth grade about constellations. If you have any ideas, I would love to hear them. —B., Illinois...
By Gabe Kraljevic