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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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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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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
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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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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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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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Educators are increasingly recognizing that significant amounts of science learning take place over the course of one’s lifetime and that much of this learning takes place outside of school settings (NRC 2009). Americans spend on average “less th...
By M. Gail Jones and Megan Ennes
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Q: What Can My Students See During the Upcoming Solar Eclipses?
A: It depends on where you are located. But first let’s briefly review what happens during a solar eclipse and clear up a few popular misconceptions about solar eclipses. You probably know that a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between th...
By Matt Bobrowsky
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Making the Most of Field Trips
Field trips can be a unique way to engage elementary students in science content. However, budget cuts and a focus on standardized testing are causing some schools to greatly reduce the funding for field trips (Meyer 2008). In the wake of the last re...
By Nicole Hesson
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Cardboard, a common maker space material, is inexpensive, readily available, and durable. It is also easy to manipulate. It can be folded, cut, painted, and taped or glued together. Caine’s Arcade, a video featuring Caine Monroy’s cardboard arcad...
By Julie Jackson, Julie Brenegan, Kristi Wagner, and Michelle Berry
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How Does Sound Travel in a String?
In Chinese science curriculum, the sound unit generally starts with observing various sound making phenomena and finding out that they all involve vibration....
By Gang Shu, Xiaowei Tang, and Huimin Chen
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Computational Modeling With Multilingual Learners
While the vision for science education through A Framework for K–12 Science Education (NRC 2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) continues to take hold in classrooms across the nation, computational modeling is becoming increasingl...
By Alison Haas, Scott E. Grapin, Lorena Llosa, and Okhee Lee
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Growing Students' Meaning-Making
In this sensemaking lesson, K–2 students explore how different factors influence seed germination and explain the elements necessary to sprout. Notebook strategies are embedded throughout the explore-before-explain lesson to help students organize ...
By Patrick Brown, Jessica Fries-Gaither, and Kathy Renfrew