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Multicultural education seeks to create equal educational opportunities for all students, including those from different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Multicultural education recognizes and values students' varied historical and cultural experiences and perspectives.

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Meeting the Needs of the Refugee Students in Your Science Classroom

Your new student roster includes refugee students. You want to communicate with them and make them feel welcome in their new science classroom; howeve...

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Expanding Language Use: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners’ Sensemaking in Science

Students bring with them rich cultural and linguistic ways of knowing and communicating when engaged in figuring out explanations of phenomena. Howeve...

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The Science Teacher—November/December 2021

Volume 89, Number 2 Culturally Relevant Science Pedagogy Validating students’ cultural identities in classroom practices—such as understan...

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Powerful Practices for the Differentiated Science Classroom

At its core, differentiation stems from the recognition that individual learners arrive in classrooms, each day, with a wide range of knowledge, lived...

 

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Considering Multiple Perspectives and Scientific Consensus: Information Literacy in the Science Classroom

Many young people learn about scientific topics online, yet middle school students have trouble identifying where scientific information comes from an...

 

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Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion in Science Education
 

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Making chemistry relevant to Indigenous Peoples: An Inuit case study

The ability of our northern Indigenous peoples (Inuit, Iñupiaq, and Yupik) to survive and thrive in the Arctic depends significantly upon underlying ...

 

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Cultivating Teachers’ Indigenous Knowledge through Explorations of Milkweed and Phenology

Providing more equitable pedagogies to all students, including those who are traditionally underrepresented, is a high priority of science education. ...

 

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Meeting the Needs of the Refugee Students in Your Science Classroom

Your new student roster includes refugee students. You want to communicate with them and make them feel welcome in their new science classroom; howeve...

 

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Expanding Language Use: Supporting Emergent Multilingual Learners’ Sensemaking in Science

Students bring with them rich cultural and linguistic ways of knowing and communicating when engaged in figuring out explanations of phenomena. Howeve...

 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 14, 2024
 

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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 classr...

 

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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 a...

 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 14, 2023
 

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Stealing the Sun

For as long as people have had stories to tell, folklore and tall tales have been a part of social gatherings. Storytelling helps us convey our histor...

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