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Scaffolding Fourth-graders’ Inquiry about Erosion
This sequence of lessons has students observing erosion and creating ideas about factors that affect erosion. Then, as a class, students first explore the impact of vegetation on erosion. Then, groups of students more independently investigate the im...
By Alexandria Burns, Jami Daniel, Jerrid Kruse, Ellen Gow
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This article presents a tool that teachers can use to support children in planning science investigations. Using an extended example from a second-grade investigation into seed dispersal, we describe strategies for structuring conversations that anch...
By Annabel Stoler, Eve Manz
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Formative Assessment From a Translanguaging Perspective in the NGSS Classroom
The Next Generation Science Standards hold promise for cultivating the diverse assets that students bring to science learning. One key asset in linguistically diverse science classrooms is translanguaging, or the use of one’s full communicative rep...
By Abigail Schwenger, Scott Grapin, Nicole Altamirano, Alison Haas, Okhee Lee
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I CAN: Strategies for Rethinking How We Share Objectives
Teachers are often required to display or explicitly state learning objectives prior to beginning a lesson. In particular, many elementary classrooms are required to post or state “I CAN…” statements related to their standards. Unfortunately, t...
By Julianne Wenner, Brooke Whitworth
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Nature at your door: Partnering with families to support nature-based engagement
Through regular classroom communications teachers facilitate family partnership in nature-based learning. Teachers can promote family engagement in the local environment and foster lifelong naturalists with a strong commitment to the earth through co...
By Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Ariadni Kouzeli
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This article presents a framework to design lesson plans for elementary science teachers using insights from a summer-long research experience for teachers (RET) workshop (National Science Foundation, 2021) to learn strategies to weave ISK (and WMS) ...
By Linda Rost, Rebecca Hite, Gina Childers
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Science in the elementary grades is often deprioritized in comparison to ELA and mathematics. We wondered, how comprehensively, frequently, and consistently is science included in elementary schools’ schedules? We reviewed daily schedules for 14 sc...
By Elizabeth Davis, Christa Haverly
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Sustainable Schoolyards is a 5-month professional learning program run by the California Global Education Project to facilitate teachers working with teachers to create and implement climate justice projects. The program meets virtually 3 times betwe...
By Devon Azzam, Kaylee Laub, Danielle Harlow
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Designing Trellises: Cultivating Science and Engineering in the Garden
Schoolyards and school gardens present a rich context for students to engage with engineering and design. We describe the Designing Trellises unit, an example of a guided 3rd-5th grade engineering experience in the garden. In this unit, students work...
By Emily Harris, Ilana Lowe, Lindsey Mohan, Whitney Cohen, Sara Severance, Terra Giotta, Carlo Albano, Jeffrey Snowden
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By Matthew Bobrowsky
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In an age where catastrophic damage from climate-related events circulates through social and print media, it is important to build communities of hope for our elementary students (Hestness, et al., 2019, Sanchez, et al., 2021). Climate justice educa...
By Candace Penrod