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An Author’s Mission to Include Female Scientists and Inventors of the 19th Century in the Historical Record

Right to the Source...

By Kelsey Beeghly

High School Inclusion News

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Teaching Physics as the Awesome Rules of Nature

Focus on Physics...

By Paul G. Hewitt

High School Pedagogy Physical Science Physics Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Equitable Science for a Socially Just Classroom

Editor's Corner September/October 2024...

By Brooke Whitworth

High School Equity Social Justice

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Finding Instructional Resources for Teaching about Scientific Misinformation

A classroom guide to resources about misinformation...

By Andy Zucker

High School Inquiry Literacy

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“Black is Beautiful”: A Culturally Relevant/Responsive High School Biology Lesson

This biology lesson uses the science of central dogma to “critique and question the politics of representation that systematically devalue[s] Blackness” (hooks, 1995, p.131). Students’ understanding of protein synthesis is extended in discussin...

By Eddie Taylor

High School Biology Equity Inclusion Interdisciplinary Life Science

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Making chemistry relevant to Indigenous Peoples: An Inuit case study

The ability of our northern Indigenous peoples (Inuit, Iñupiaq, and Yupik) to survive and thrive in the Arctic depends significantly upon underlying chemistry and chemical principles. Here, we explore four of these connections, then show how the Ind...

By Chaim Andersen, Rosalina Naqitarvik, Jennifer Winters, Erica Taylor, Geoffrey Rayner-Canham

High School Chemistry Inquiry Multicultural Social Justice

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Using Citizen Science to Learn About Climate Change: Investigating the Phenomenon of Increasing Carbon Dioxide Levels Using Fossil Ginkgo Leaves

Science classrooms are most engaging when students have the opportunity to engage in the practices of scientists. Unfortunately, many attempts to incorporate science into the classroom are disconnected from real scientific practice. When classroom sc...

By Ari Geary-Teeter, Thomas McKenna

High School Citizen Science Climate Change Interdisciplinary Social Justice Teaching Strategies

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Cultivating Teachers’ Indigenous Knowledge through Explorations of Milkweed and Phenology

Providing more equitable pedagogies to all students, including those who are traditionally underrepresented, is a high priority of science education. In this paper, we outline how we coupled Indigenous Ways of Knowing with investigations about plant ...

By Hillary Barron, Emily Mohl, Michele Koomen

High School Biology Inquiry Multicultural Pedagogy

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Determining the Relative Mass Between the Nucleus and Electrons Modeling Lab

Freshman general science students already know the atom is composed of a nucleus containing protons and neutrons with electron circling the nucleus. This hands-on modeling lab allows students to visualize and discover the electrons mass is far less a...

By Gary Schlitz

High School Chemistry Labs

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Students with Visual Impairments can be Successful in Science

One of the goals of the Next Generation Science Standards is to make science accessible to all students, which includes students with disabilities such as blindness and visual impairments (BVI). However, educators of students with BVI have limited ex...

By Rhea Miles

High School Disabilities Equity Inclusion Teaching Strategies

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Designing Standards-Aligned Instructional Materials that Connect to Students’ Interests and Community Priorities

All students should have opportunities to investigate issues related to their personal interests and community priorities. Teachers value these goals but often lack materials that follow students' meaningful questions about phenomena while meeting st...

By William Penuel, Kate Henson, Zoë Bracey, Nicole Vick, Ann Rivet

High School Disciplinary Core Ideas NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning