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STEM Learning is for Everyone!

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Elementary Equity Inclusion STEM Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Advocating for Action

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Elementary Advocacy Literacy News Phenomena

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Supporting Inclusive Science Classrooms: Strategies to Improve Accessibility and Engagement for Students with Exceptionalities

This article explores a lesson on structure and function in an inclusive first grade classroom. The class is co-taught by a general and special education teacher. The lesson describes how the teachers co-teach through team teaching to plan for possib...

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Elementary Advocacy Equity Inclusion Teaching Strategies

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Design Talks: Whole-Class Conversations during Engineering Design Units

Teacher-facilitated whole-class conversations can help elementary students apply the full power of the NGSS science and engineering practices to an engineering design process. In this article we describe and provide examples for five kinds of Design ...

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Elementary Engineering Inclusion Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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Bookending STEM Lessons: Co-teaching with an Education Librarian for Elementary Picture-Perfect Success

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Elementary Interdisciplinary Literacy Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Creating a Buzz About Community-Engaged Research

School districts across the United States are actively exploring avenues to aid elementary-aged Gifted and Talented (GT) students in conducting student-driven research, value science within their local community, develop students’ science practices...

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Elementary Citizen Science Pedagogy Research Teaching Strategies

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Promoting Meaningful and Equitable Modeling Practices in Online Science Instruction

Many elementary science teachers have faced some challenges in implementing meaningful and equitable modeling practices in online science instruction that is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. Integrating technology tools into modeli...

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Elementary Distance Learning Equity Inclusion Teaching Strategies

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Science 101: What is Light?

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Elementary Phenomena Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Bugging Out with Bugscope

Looking for something REALLY exciting, creepy-crawly, accessible and pertains to phenomenon-based/ storyline-based NGSS? Bugscope is a free educational project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. K-12 classrooms have an opportunity to ...

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Elementary Biology Citizen Science Interdisciplinary Technology

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Equitable from the Start: Strategies for Making Science Relevant, Engaging, and Accessible

Equalizing opportunities for students to learn science and engineering in the ways described in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) requires intentional planning. In this paper, we describe a framework for designing equitable and inclusive s...

By Rachel Ruggirello and Alison Brockhouse

Early Childhood Elementary Equity Inclusion Teaching Strategies

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Moving Beyond Equity-as-Access to Expanding What Counts as Science in the Elementary Classroom

Making science accessible is an important and worthy goal, but for many students, science is inaccessible because what counts as science in the classroom is narrowly defined as what is known as western science, rooted in Europe in the 1600s and often...

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Elementary Equity Inclusion Multicultural Sensemaking Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Culturally Relevant Science Learning

Creating learning opportunities for students to culturally connect in the science classroom is crucial to ensuring inclusivity and accessibility for all. This article describes how multicultural picture books that use visuals to capture diverse repre...

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Preschool Early Childhood Elementary Inclusion Literacy Multicultural Teaching Strategies

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Reading Like a Scientist: Teaching Students to Strategically Read Multimodal Science Texts

Calls for disciplinary literacy instruction in elementary schools encourage teachers to provide authentic opportunities for students to read and write like scientists. Enacting disciplinary literacy with problem-based learning practices to inquire ab...

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Early Childhood Elementary Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Literacy Teaching Strategies