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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. Al...
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 o...
By Hallie Booth
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Using Senses in Nature to Experience Equity
In one of my favorite lessons, I take my kindergarten students outside to explore the schoolyard. Though I take my students outdoors throughout the ye...
By Julia Deevers-Rich
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How PLCs Helped Move Us Toward Equitable High School Assessment Practices
My colleagues and I began using units intentionally designed for the NGSS for biology in early 2017. We started with a high-quality unit evaluated by ...
By Holly Hereau
eBook
Creating Engineering Design Challenges: Success Stories From Teachers (e-book)
If you’ve ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engine...
eBook
It’s Still Debatable! Using Socioscientific Issues to Develop Scientific Literacy, K–5 (e-book)
It’s Still Debatable! encourages scientific literacy by showing you how to teach the content and thinking skills K–5 students need to explore real...
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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
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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...
By Rebecca Schumacher
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Pairing Literacy and Science to Effectively Teach Argumentation
Most elementary teachers, have many opportunities to learn best practices in English Language Arts (ELA), but few in science....
By Judine Keplar and Carrie Launius
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Designing Engineering Projects That Teach Science Concepts by Cory Culbertson
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the engineering projects in my courses. On the surface, they don’t seem like something I need to worry about...
By Cory Culbertson
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I first encountered the KLEWS teaching strategy in an article in Science and Children (NSTA 2015), “KLEWS to Explanation-Building in Science.” I s...
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As several reports have shown, it is critical for teachers to understand instructional strategies that are consistent with the NGSS vision, as well as...
By Diane Johnson
NSTA Press Book
Radioactivity, Grade 11: STEM Road Map for High School
What if you could challenge your 11th graders to figure out the best response to a partial meltdown at a nuclear reactor in fictional Gammatown, USA? ...