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Professional Learning Units and Courses 3D Learning and Sensemaking
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Professional Learning Units and Courses 3D Learning and Sensemaking
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Making Scientific Sensemaking Visible
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Many teachers and schools are coming to recognize the importance of sensemaking in the science classroom. But what does an NGSS-informed sensemaking lesson look like in practice, and how might our students respond to…
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The Science Practice of Modeling as a Sensemaking Tool
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Does the scientific practice of modeling actually support students in making thinking visible? Middle school teachers can build from the work of 12 K–8 teachers who wanted to learn how the practice of modeling is…
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Promoting Sensemaking Through an Impactful Instructional Sequence
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Mapping Vocabulary Onto Student Sense-Making
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Promoting Sensemaking Through an Impactful Instructional Sequence
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A valuable framework for promoting sensemaking includes the convergence of two independent ideas: (1) the focus of modern education on teaching for understanding and transfer, and (2) a purposeful sequence of…
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Beyond Definitions: Using Hexagonal Thinking for Sensemaking
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This article was written for the purpose of introducing the hexagonal thinking strategy to upper elementary teachers. The strategy, in which students make connections across the vocabulary and concepts to develop a map…
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Helping Students Use Crosscutting Concepts to Guide Sensemaking of Anchoring Phenomena
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Crosscutting concepts (CCCs) are designed to help students make sense of phenomena across multiple scientific disciplines (National Research Council 2012). Since they are applicable to explaining so many different…
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Expanding Language Use: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners’ Sensemaking in Science
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Students bring with them rich cultural and linguistic ways of knowing and communicating when engaged in figuring out explanations of phenomena. However, it is a challenge for teachers to support bi/multilingual learners…
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Equitable sensemaking enables students to draw on personal resources to investigate and explain phenomena and problems within their communities. Although equitable sensemaking allows for meaningful understanding of big…
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This article shares the experiences of three elementary teachers who took steps to transform their roles from speakers to listeners. After participating in a professional learning (PL) project that uses science to…
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Discussion Supports Sense-Making Within and Across Lessons
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Promoting coherent learning about weather forecasting in kindergarten
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The NSTA Sensemaking Tool (adapted from the research-based NGSS Lesson Screener) is designed to help educators be critical consumers of curricular materials as well as create and/or revise science lessons to reflect the…
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