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Medical and cancer-STEM education for underrepresented minority elementary school students in Audiology, Gastroenterology and Osteology/Orthopedics

The goal of the University of Southern California (USC)/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center funded Wonderkids Program is to develop medical and cancer themed curricula for elementary students in an after-school program in the Los Angeles area. Wonder...

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Careers Equity Inclusion Sensemaking Social Justice STEM

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Creating Equity for Black Science Students

Creating equity for Black science students requires deep listening and can be achieved with phenomenological qualitative research and a community of inquiry. The phenomenological study examines the lived experience of a phenomenon of a participant. T...

Equity General Science Inclusion Inquiry Social Justice

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Making Science Accessible for All

It’s time for a change in mindset. We must shift our focus toward recognizing the assets and strengths of our students as a pivotal starting point. While it’s easy to identify deficits, gaps, and challenges, we must also acknowledge our students�...

By Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn

Kindergarten Pre-K Early Childhood Elementary Equity Inclusion Pedagogy Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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How Can We Make Our Students’ Thinking Visible?

Understanding our students’ thinking is paramount to moving a lesson forward and seeing where misconceptions exist. By providing particular prompts, we can uncover their thinking, take action, and enhance the overall learning experience for our stu...

High School Equity Inclusion Inquiry Literacy News Teaching Strategies

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Science in Preschool, Part 1: Leveraging the Power of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) with Consideration to Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)

This two-part article will describe four powerful key ideas embedded in the Framework and the NGSS and ways in which early educators might leverage them with consideration to the unique characteristics of young children and developmentally-appropriat...

Pre-K Preschool Equity Inclusion NGSS Teaching Strategies

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STEM Learning is for Everyone!

Early Years Column....

Elementary Equity Inclusion STEM Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Supporting Inclusive Science Classrooms: Strategies to Improve Accessibility and Engagement for Students with Exceptionalities

This article explores a lesson on structure and function in an inclusive first grade classroom. The class is co-taught by a general and special education teacher. The lesson describes how the teachers co-teach through team teaching to plan for possib...

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Elementary Advocacy Equity Inclusion Teaching Strategies

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Design Talks: Whole-Class Conversations during Engineering Design Units

Teacher-facilitated whole-class conversations can help elementary students apply the full power of the NGSS science and engineering practices to an engineering design process. In this article we describe and provide examples for five kinds of Design ...

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Elementary Engineering Inclusion Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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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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Elementary Distance Learning Equity Inclusion Teaching Strategies

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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

Early Childhood Elementary Equity Inclusion Teaching Strategies