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Socioscientific Modeling: Helping Students See Systems and Understand Messy Issues
In this article we present a strategy to help students unpack complex, socioscientific issues. We outline a 90-minute learning experience where studen...
By Eric Kirk, Troy Sadler, Zhen Xu, Jamie Elsner, Li Ke, Laura Zangori, Rebecca Lesnefsky
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Pedagogical approaches for supporting students’ argumentative writing in science laboratories have not been fully established. This paper examines t...
By Ruomei Gao, Judith Weinstein-Lloyd, Jody Cardinal
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Discover student thinking while analyzing data…and having fun! (Data Literacy 101)
Our students rarely practice data skills with data not related to our science content, which makes sense given all we must teach. But always asking ou...
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The Science Practice of Modeling as a Sensemaking Tool
Does the scientific practice of modeling actually support students in making thinking visible? Middle school teachers can build from the work of 12 ...
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Exploring Socioscientific Issues through Evidence-Based Argumentation with MEL Diagrams
Critical thinking skills are best taught as students participate in the scientific practice of argumentation. When engaged in scientific argumentatio...
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Making Scientific Sensemaking Visible
Many teachers and schools are coming to recognize the importance of sensemaking in the science classroom. But what does an NGSS-informed sensemaking l...
Reports Article
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, January 9, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Classroom communities are more than just teachers and students. Administrators, other teachers and students, teacher aides, all school staff, families...
By Jonathan McCausland and Kathryn M. Bateman
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Performance Assessment as Part of Efficient, Effective, and Equitable Instructional Practice
Since the release of the NGSS, science classrooms across the United States have shifted science learning away from a focus on decontextualized facts a...
By Lauren Stoll and Jill Wertheim
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Teach Sublimation With Markers!
Sublimation, the change of state from solid to gas, is a challenging concept for many students to grasp and a curious phenomenon to investigate. Our e...
By Christine G. Schnittka and Mark Brenneman
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Cardboard, a common maker space material, is inexpensive, readily available, and durable. It is also easy to manipulate. It can be folded, cut, painte...
By Julie Jackson, Julie Brenegan, Kristi Wagner, and Michelle Berry
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Computational Modeling With Multilingual Learners
While the vision for science education through A Framework for K–12 Science Education (NRC 2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) co...
By Alison Haas, Scott E. Grapin, Lorena Llosa, and Okhee Lee
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Growing Students' Meaning-Making
In this sensemaking lesson, K–2 students explore how different factors influence seed germination and explain the elements necessary to sprout. Note...
By Patrick Brown, Jessica Fries-Gaither, and Kathy Renfrew