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Science and STEM Education for Equity and Justice With Multilingual Learners 
in Elementary School (e-book)

eBook

Science and STEM Education for Equity and Justice With Multilingual Learners in Elementary School (e-book)

Written for K–12 educators, this e-book brings together contemporary approaches in science, STEM, and language education, with a specific focus on multilingual learners. Incorporating learnings from studies like A Framework for K–12 Science Educa...

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Nurturing Inclusive Science Education: Insights from Elementary Teachers Working with Karen Immigrant Students

Journal Article

Nurturing Inclusive Science Education: Insights from Elementary Teachers Working with Karen Immigrant Students

This article summarizes our research findings, investigating instructional adaptations elementary science teachers make to accommodate a growing population of Karen immigrant students. Hailing from the war-torn country of Myanmar, Karen students, who...

By Ashlely Armstrong, Timothy Slater

Inclusion Multilingual Learners

Listening as Children Lead: Engaging Emergent Multilingual Children in Science Sensemaking by Transforming Roles

Journal Article

Listening as Children Lead: Engaging Emergent Multilingual Children in Science Sensemaking by Transforming Roles

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 support English language practices, ...

By Michelle Brown, Teila Hildebrand, Taylor Tarone-Sefchik, Allyson Trella, May Lee, Carla Zembal-Saul, Jennifer Cody

Multilingual Learners Sensemaking

Next Time You See a Snowflake

NSTA Kids

Next Time You See a Snowflake

Click here to view video of Next Time You See a Snowflake This book will have you seeing snowflakes in a whole new way. You’ll learn about the science of snowflakes – how they form, why they are six-sided, what conditions are necessary for the...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Mathematics STEM 5E Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials Inquiry NGSS Phenomena Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy New Science Teachers Sensemaking

Meeting the Needs of the Refugee Students in Your Science Classroom

Journal Article

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; however, given their limited English and traumatic experiences that are unlike anything you have known, yo...

By Gayle Buck, Arya Karumanthra, Shukufe Rahman

Inclusion Multicultural Multilingual Learners Social Justice Teacher Preparation

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

Journal Article

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. However, it is a challenge for teachers to support bi/multilingual learners in language-intensive science ...

By Samuel Lee, Benjamin DiFrancesco, Caitlin Fine, Katherine McNeill

Inclusion Multicultural Multilingual Learners Teaching Strategies

Using Collaborative Digital Summary Tables to Impact Student Engagement and Learning

Journal Article

Using Collaborative Digital Summary Tables to Impact Student Engagement and Learning

This manuscript reports on the impact of using collaborative digital summary tables on student engagement and learning. First, traditional summary tables were used during two units in 7th grade life science, then more scaffolded digital collaborative...

By Grace Buchholz and Pradeep Maxwell Dass

Middle School Equity Multilingual Learners NGSS Pedagogy Research

Exploring Climate Change through Students’ Place Connections and Public Data Sets

Journal Article

Exploring Climate Change through Students’ Place Connections and Public Data Sets

Climate change is a pressing societal challenge. It is also a pedagogical challenge and a worldwide phenomenon, whose local impacts vary across different locations. Climate change reflects global inequity; communities that contribute most to emission...

By Kathryn Lanouette, Krista Cortes, Lisette Lopez, Michael Bakal, Michelle Wilkerson

Middle School Climate Science Curriculum Multilingual Learners

Journal Article

Translanguaging as an Essential Practice in Socially Just Science Classrooms

In this interaction, Manuel and Rico (all names are pseudonyms) expertly mix Spanish and English to communicate as they collect data in a ninth grade physics lab. Your reaction to this mixture of English and Spanish, what users sometimes call “Span...

By Sarah Braden and Taylor Dexter

Equity Inclusion Interdisciplinary Literacy Multicultural Multilingual Learners

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