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Achieving Equity Through Assessments
Our school requires all students to take chemistry. We teach all levels, ranging from Collaborative/Inclusive Chemistry to Honors and AP Chemistry. All of our classes have students who speak different languages, as well as students with a range of so...
By Laura Littrell and Kevin Williams
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NGSS: Planning for Science Success for All Students
Creating an Environment for All Students to Show Their Understanding Much discussion has focused on how the NGSS (and other state standards based on the Framework and NGSS) make science accessible to all students. I believe all students can be suc...
By Hallie Booth
Journal Article
Middle school is a critical time for fostering girls’ interest in science, as it is during these years that girls begin to identify with their strengths and weaknesses and start to decide what kind of person to be (Allen and Eisenhart 2017; Carlo...
By Alicia Santiago, Kristin Pederson, and Rita Karl
Journal Article
Encouraging student voices in the science classroom
Notes from the field editor ...
By Ann Haley Mackenzie
Blog Post
Encouraging Students to Engage in Argument With Evidence
When I first began to shift my curriculum to support the Next Generation Science Standards, I was a bit overwhelmed!...
By Michelle Monk
Blog Post
Arguing From Evidence to Discover the ‘Why’
In my science classroom, students look at evidence all the time. Sometimes it is in photos or videos; sometimes in charts and graphs; and sometimes we generate our own data through investigations. A more traditional approach previously used is asking...
By Rebecca Schumacher
Journal Article
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. ...
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Building Classroom Community in an NGSS-Aligned Elementary Science Classroom
In an elementary science classroom, it’s not incredibly challenging to motivate students to want to do science and engineering....
By Gretchen Brinza
NSTA Press Book
Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners in Science, Grades 7–12
Many middle and high school teachers are educated to teach science content—they don’t anticipate that one day they may be teaching it to students who need to learn both content and English. If the day has come when you’re facing that two-pronge...
By Molly Weinburgh, Cecilia Silva, Kathy Horak Smith
Journal Article
Serving Youth With Special Needs
In the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education community, we are well aware that “the representation of certain groups of people in science and engineering education and employment differs from their representation in the U.S....
By Beth Murphy